Cures And Remedies For Pink eye
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Ice(:
valerie(: in USA -
Okay, so I got pink eye (I have no idea how). Well it started to burn and stuff, so first I got a hot paper towel (I soaked it in hot water) and that didn't work. I moved on to cold, I got a paper towel and soaked it in cold water than I filled it up with ICE, I layed over my eye and after about 10-15 min I looked in the mirror and half of the red was gone!!! I kept on doing that and after a few min all of the red was gone(: Try This!!! its veryyy easy!! Give it a shot*(:
Jun 22, 2009
2 Yes
6 No
Milk and honey eye wash
Delilah Segura in Lubbock, Texas -Whenever my child has pink eye, I mix equal amts of honey and milk and soak a cotton ball half wet and "drip" solution into affected eye several times a day. It will sting, but it will kill the infection as honey is a natural antiseptic. Usually starts to clear up in 10-12 hours. Be sure and use a new cotton ball for each treatment so as not to reinfect your eye.
Jun 17, 2009
16 Yes
5 No
Rice
Gwyn Wise in Hickory, NC -I took a bag of minute rice placed it dry into microwave for about 1 minute. Wraped it in a washcloth and placed over my eye. I kept it there until it cooled off. When I took it off not only had the swelling gone down but the ichy, burning, pain had also stoped. I did this 3-4 times a day for 2 days and my pink eye was gone. I'm not going to say this will work for you but it did for me when the tea bags, salt water and over the counter eye drops didn't. Good luck.
Jun 17, 2009
12 Yes
1 No
Baby Shampoo
Kalegrace in Kauai, Hawaii -If you wash your eye out with baby shampoo or baby body wash it will wash out the bacteria and wont hurt your eye because it is tear free because it is used on babies.
Jun 11, 2009
7 Yes
5 No
Use CVS generic pain relif formula instead of Neosporin.
Buddy in Atlanta, GA -I applied the ointment to my eyelashes, & outer eye lids, with a Q tip as suggested by others here. IMMEDIATE RELIEF!! And it stopped my blurred vision...The relief has lasted for hours...
Next I'm going to try the green tea bag on the eyes,
that seems to be the most recommended thing here for a cure.
I will keep you posted with my findings.
Jun 08, 2009
3 Yes
4 No
Semen
Tim Jensen in Here -
Some people on this site have been saying that breast milk works perfectly for getting rid of pink eye. This is a true statement: breast milk does in fact work. You see, it works by making the eye tear up without further adding to the infection by using the sterile breast milk, washing the eye out with natural tears more or less.
I figured, since breast milk works, other bodily fluids would as well! So I tried curing my ailment of pink eye using urine, which is also sterile and makes the eye tear up. Unfortunately, the stagnant urine (for I did not wash my eye out after dabbing a cotton ball soaked in urine into my eye) worsened the effect of my pink eye.
I decided urine does not work, but moved on to the next bodily fluid that would be most appropriate: semen. Long story short, it burns really badly, but it works about 10% of the time (as long as you also flush with lemon juice, warm water, etc.), plus it's fun to produce. So vote yes for semen!
May 18, 2009
38 Yes
180 No
Lemon drops
Anonymous in pomona, ca -
Its not a remedy for pink eye but for the discharge that accumilates... I usually put a small drop of lemon in my eye ( yes it burns) and it happrends to gather the mucous to the corner and you just wipe it away with a clean rag or q-tip...
May 18, 2009
7 Yes
12 No
Lemon Juice
Karen in Kingston, WA USA -Alright, I know this sounds scary and maybe even a little bit masochistic, but equal parts distilled water and lemon juice always does the trick for me. It hurts like Hell and I have to do the "Holy Crap My Eyes Are Burning Out of My Skull" dance for a few minutes, but within 20 minutes my nasty case of both eyes having very bad pink eye went almost completely away. My friend and fellow massage therapist has been using natural home remedies for himself and his 4 children for years and years and he swore by it. Good luck, I hope this helps.
May 16, 2009
25 Yes
1 No
Contact lens solution/tea bags
Jessy in Wisconsin -
Put 1 drop of contact lens solution in the affected eye(s). Then put 1 hot tea bag on the eye(s). Put 1 more drop in the eye(s). Do this every 30 minutes. I find it easier to heat some water in a mug and stick 2 tea bags in it. I just set it and the contact lens solution by my bed and do it every 30 minutes. Also, remember to wash your hands afterwards...I just use hand sanitizer.
May 05, 2009
28 Yes
3 No
Ol' Soviet Solution
Jason in San Francisco, CA -Potassium Permanganate(KMnO4)(Purple grainy crystal powder thing) Well my grandma treats this stuff as a cure all for throat, fungus, and eye irritations, but it actually works for the latter. I spent the entire day, yesterday, squirting pink eye puss out of my eye and couldn't take it. Went to sleep and woke up with my eyes cemented shut. I then woke up, took a TINY bit of the remedy and dissolved it in warm water. Make sure it isn't strong and looks like a faint pink. When you get about a glass full you just put the rim under your eye. Bring the glass up and open your eye when its in the solution. I haven't had puss or discomfort for the last 6 hours. Repeat process when necessary
May 03, 2009
4 Yes
11 No
Breast milk and cleaning gunk out--don't wear contacts
Pauline in AZ -My baby daughter got pink eye and I put drops of fresh breastmilk in her pink eye and it went away on its own. When I looked into the risks of pinkeye, blindness was of course one, but occurred mainly in newborns and people in comas and people who wear contacts--what do they have in common? My best guess is newborns sleep a ton and have their eyes closed a ton and so do people in comas and people who wear contacts with pinkeye is like having an eye lid over your eye. So that gunk that comes with pinkeye is just sitting in that closed eye or underneath the contact (this is my best guess)--so it is important to clean gunk out with a warm wet washcloth (probably not a good idea to duct tape your eye shut as that one guy suggested lol!), use a clean wash cloth every time, don't itch it because that will just further irritate it, get plenty of fresh air into the eye (normal opening and closing is sufficient!) and possibly breastmilk if you have some--worked for us and went away just fine--took a few days but we needed no antibiotics or over the counter (toxic!) medicines.
Apr 30, 2009
9 Yes
5 No
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