I caught a horrible bacterial eye infection from DC (they got it from getting soil/sand in their eyes - doctor agrees with this, btw), but having been fastidious over hand washing, I managed to limit it to one eye. It took a good ten days to clear - had swelling, pus, almost solid redness, irritation. The works, basically. Was an antibiotic eye ointment as prescribed by doctor (I had dosed myself with chloramphenicol but when to doctor when it seemed to be getting worse 4 days after starting antibiotics).
Over the last few days it got a lot better (DC's cleared far more quickly than mine). Yesterday all was normal, bar a tiny bit of gunge in the morning. I finally started to relax.
This morning my other eye is red and a bit gunky. Not sore or swollen yet. I have immediately started dosing with antibiotics.
I really don't want to face another ten days of this. I am squeamish over eyes and this is horrid. I also had an outing planned and I wanted to look half decent for it (that's the colour of my eye!). I just would love somebody to tell me that my immune system (with the help of the antibiotics) conquered the last infection, and, assuming this is the same bacteria, my body now knows how to deal with it and will therefore clear it more quickly?
Any hope or am I just clutching at straws? Thank you in advance!
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Can anyone who understands about infection and immunity reassure me?
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Eppia · 10/04/2017 12:39
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