What is pink eye? Red eye is the common name for a group of acute conjunctivitis that is highly contagious and prone to pandemic or even outbreak epidemics, including acute catarrhal conjunctivitis, epidemic hemorrhagic conjunctivitis and epidemic conjunctivitis. The cause of the disease can be bacterial, viral, or both, with viruses generally being more contagious and often causing outbreaks of pandemics. Generally red eye has a pandemic every 6-8 years or so, which may be related to factors such as the growth characteristics of bacteria and viruses and climate change. Red eye is aggressive, but not scary Red eye is very scary and often comes with a lot of force. Often you can find a family including grandparents, fathers, mothers and children all have red eyes, and the surrounding neighbors and friends and relatives, or newspapers and TV news report a construction site, a kindergarten or school most of the people are infected with the dreaded red eye, leading everyone to fear for their lives. There are even people who do not have eye problems also come to the ophthalmology department to see a doctor, and firmly require doctors to prescribe eye drops for treatment, or eyes a little light redness, a small amount of conjunctival hemorrhage on the rush to the hospital, to the extent of the cup and bow, and red-eye patients have become a scourge that everyone hates and avoids, some people are even afraid to look at red-eye patients, for fear of catching the dreaded red-eye disease. In fact, red-eye is not terrible, did not see the size of the hospital ophthalmologist a day to see more than ten or even dozens of red-eye patients also did not catch red-eye? Understanding the transmission of pink eye, that is, to find the source of the pathogen can be avoided to catch red-eye. Red eye is transmitted by contact, mainly through the affected eye – hand – object – hand – healthy eye or the affected eye – water – healthy eye. As long as you do not let the hand or water that has come into contact with the pathogen come into contact with the healthy eye, you will not contract pink eye. Therefore, once the disease is diagnosed, appropriate precautions should be taken to avoid infecting others. The main measures are early detection of red eye patients, immediate isolation, while actively treating patients, while strengthening the sanitary management of public places and prohibiting patients from going to public baths and swimming places. At the same time, when there is an epidemic of conjunctivitis outbreak, it is necessary to disinfect the above-mentioned and other public service facilities and circulation currency. But the main thing is to strengthen personal hygiene, develop the hygienic habit of washing hands frequently with flowing water soap, not using public masks, and not rubbing your eyes with your hands. Red eye prevention is more important than treatment Once infected, the symptoms of red eye are very serious. Patients will have red eyes similar to rabbit eyes, discharge, photophobia, stinging pain, blurred vision and other symptoms, which seriously affect work and study, and also bring potential threats to the surrounding people and environment, bringing bad psychological effects to patients and their relatives and friends around them. In addition, the treatment of pink eye often has a long course, antiviral treatment on up to 3-4 weeks, if the virus causes immune cell infiltration of the cornea, often the disease course of weeks to years, seriously affecting vision, patients often spend more time in the hospital queue for medical treatment, painful. Therefore, we should pay great attention to prevention, as long as we know that contact transmission is the way red eye is transmitted, wash hands regularly and avoid contact, we can avoid unnecessary trouble. Red eye requires proper treatment, do not rush to the doctor, abuse of drugs We often find that once the patient has contracted red eye, find out the home eye drops indiscriminately point a gas, but the results aggravated the disease. Why? First of all, eye drops have a certain shelf life, the home eye drops expired no bad, and even if not past the shelf life, if it has been opened and used, in principle, not more than a month should be discarded, otherwise eye drops have the risk of contamination, deterioration; secondly, eye drops to the right medicine, if it is a bacterial infection, we must use antibiotic eye drops, if it is a virus, we must use antiviral eye drugs, if If you suspect that both can be used at the same time, and all eye drops must be used at intervals, or play the opposite effect; furthermore, the use of drugs in different periods of the disease is not the same, for example, in the acute phase of inflammation drugs are mainly to inhibit, kill the causative agent, after the acute phase if there is an infiltration of immune cells, we must use hormonal eye drops to control the disease, shorten the course of the disease, early recovery of vision, if the wrong order If you use hormones at the beginning of the disease, you will aggravate the disease and delay treatment. A few misconceptions about red eye 1, red eye is very scary: in fact, red eye is not a disease that can easily be transmitted, do not panic. If you have contact with the patient, including shaking hands, hugging, as long as you wash your hands properly and do not rub your eyes, you will not catch pink eye, go swimming in the pool in the summer and autumn, after the end of the timely eye drops. 2, red-eye can continue to work: red-eye symptoms are serious, highly contagious, so red-eye infected try to rest more at home, to avoid infecting others, while paying attention to diet, avoid spicy food, quit smoking and alcohol, and timely access to hospitals. 3, the use of Vaseline as an excipient eye ointment or bandage the affected eye, or add an eye patch: so that the secretions of the affected eye can not be discharged, glasses local temperature increases, more likely to lead to pathogenic reproduction and growth, aggravating the disease. 4, red-eye patients continue to use contact lenses, as long as the point drops are not afraid: this because contact lenses lead to corneal hypoxia edema, decreased resistance, secretion excretion disorders and other aggravating conditions, and even lead to the risk of blindness. 5, the use of hormone drops can relieve symptoms: the use of hormone drops to be used under the correct guidance of a doctor, and regular follow-up checks at the hospital, otherwise aggravate the disease not to mention the risk of glaucoma, cataracts. 6, not red-eye epidemic season, do not prevent: red-eye, although easy to popular in spring and autumn or summer and autumn and other seasonal changes, but red-eye can develop all year round, and men and women can develop, so we must always develop good hygiene habits. 7, red eyes is red eye: red eyes may be staying up late, visual fatigue, conjunctival hemorrhage, or iritis, glaucoma and other eye diseases, not necessarily red eye. 8, in advance of the eye drops can prevent red eyes: eye drops can not eliminate red eyes, first of all, eye drops have a certain range of indications, and not a drug on everything, secondly, eye drops also have a role time, if the role of time, even if the eye drops can still be infected with red eyes. Therefore, good hygiene is the important way to prevent. 9, red eye eye eye drops on everything is fine: the development of red eye disease has different performance characteristics at different times, therefore, with red eye must be regular follow-up visits to the hospital to check, according to the condition of the medication adjustment, otherwise it may delay the treatment.