Any ophthalmologists about? Conjunctivitis and covid-19

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I've read that covid-19 can cause conjunctivitis. My mum was diagnosed with an eye infection yesterday by the optician. She often has a dry cough due to reflux but is definitely coughing more than normal. No idea if she has a fever or not. She is more tired than usual too.

Does anyone have any more information regarding this please?

No professional knowledge but this has been on my radar because I had conjunctivitis while I had a cold a few weeks ago (and still have a slight sore throat and cough). The only thing I've seen about conjunctivitis and C-19 was in a WHO report about China which contained statistics on various aspects. There was a list of symptoms experienced by Chinese patients and a tiny % had conjunctivitis too (can't remember exactly but maybe around 2%) which I think is too low to consider it as an indicative symptom of C-19.

I have had sore eyes for the last week accompanying my cough and on-off fevers... Not been tested big course, but that is the symptom I would say makes this different from other cold/flu I have had before. My eyes feel heavy, gritty and are watering especially at night. No obvious goo though.

I had this a few weeks ago, milkjetmum before the spread, I don't think it's Corona symptom.

I've still got the WHO report in my downloads and it says 0.8% of Chinese patients experienced conjunctival congestion (as at 20 Feb). So really tiny.

We have also had viral conjunctivitis recently which made me feel really rough. As did my SIL accompanied by very high temperature.

I had this at beginning March and it kept coming back on and off for about three weeks. I've never had it before in my life. It came on after a couple of days I took off work feeling unwell, had a cough, fatigue, sore throat with glands up. I've also had a bit of a tight chest since where I need to take deeper breaths than usual. As far as I'm aware I didn't have a temperature but I was taking medicine for the sore throat so it may have masked it if I had one. I'm very curious if this was Covid or not, wish we did have access to tests just to know one way or another.

That's how my Corona virus infection started. Itchy eyes that did not respond to antibiotic eye drops. Then a cough.

Now this is interesting, I had conjunctivitis about 3 weeks ago. Never had it in my adult live before. I assumed initially that my toddler gave it to me but she's not had any symptoms, so wondered where it had come from.

We've both had mild colds for a little while. No temps though...

Coincident?