Gunky eyes - contagious for how long?

[mooki]

DD got sent home from the childminder's in early December with a gunky eye. We were prescribed Chloramphenicol, used it for a couple of days and the infection seemed to clear up so we stopped.

Unfortunately the gunk came back after Christmas - the Chloramphenicol hadn't expired so we used it over a weekend and then took her back to the GP's on New Year's Eve and were prescribed the same thing again.

So - we've been dropping and cleaning for about 7 days now, it does seem to be improving but hasn't totally cleared up. Can she go back to the childminder's tomorrow?

i would be surprised if the childminder would have her back until it's completely clear tbh. It's normally 48 hours clear ime.

Maybe try different drops - the standard ones never worked for my dd

Thanks, I'm waiting for the Drs survey to ring me back but they take ages and if she's not good to go, I need to have a back up plan.

Some unfortunate googling led me to a Lancet paper that said that Chloramphenicol was only as effective as a placebo and most infections cleared up on their own after a week - so as we're coming up for that timescale I'm hoping it will be on the wane anyway.

(And if I'd known that it might have saved me a lot of cross wiggling from a 15month old too.)

www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(05)66709-8/abstract