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Waah - is this conjunctivitis? I feel like my eye has grit in it!

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UnrequitedSkink · 19/02/2013 19:36

Hi, I've got a stinking cold (earache, sore throat, the works. Haven't had one this bad in years.) Tonight, I was sitting at the laptop (mumsnetting, obv) when I absentmindedly scratched what felt like an eyelash or something on my eyeball. Now, 2hours later I can't get the irritation to go away, it feels like there's somehting stuck under my eyelid, and my eye is weeping yellow-whiote gunk and is red and sore.

Is it more likely that I've got a viral conjunctivitis related to my mother of all bastarding cold, or that there actually is a foreign body in my eye that I need to have seen to?

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MoonlightandRoses · 19/02/2013 22:28

Sounds quite a lot like conjunctivitis to me, sorry. Washing it out with cold chamomile tea will help with the itching/weeping.

Hope it goes away soon.

starfishmummy · 19/02/2013 22:41

Are you me, unrequited? I have a stinking cold and since this afternoon, a sticky eye. I have been to the pharmacy for Brolene drops.

I can hardly talk now either.

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