Let me know where your local hospital is…I’ll phone ahead and book an itu bed for you…

DrP

Christ(mas) on a bike! I can’t afford your referral fees.

Bowl of warm urine. Dab on the eye and you will be good as new. Old wives tale, but it works a treat.

Bowl? Pah!

*unzips and leans back*

Spread like wildfire amongst the crew on one occasion when I was in the Merchant Navy in a past life.

Is that ‘cos you were all going through each other?

There is no such thing as A&E any more. They are now called Emergency Departments. Man up sweetheart. Get some eye drops.

Jamie… dude..

mtfu

Boiled water with loadsa salt in it, cotton wool pad.. a fresh pad for each individual wipe

If my two year old who has got pneumonia can’t get to the emergency services cos some wally is wigging out about eye bogeys I will not be very christmassy

Is that ‘cos you were all going through each other?

We had no other option seeing as you weren’t there! 8)

Boiled water

Should read “Boiled and Cooled water”

Should read “Boiled and Cooled water”

Now you say!

*heads off to A&E: Scalded eyeball dept.*

Is that ‘cos you were all going through each other?

We had no other option seeing as you weren’t there!
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You should have drawn the line at sexy time, constant bookaki’n is silly.

Lots of good info above – but contact lens wearers get some interesting and different problems, particularly acanthoemeba keratitis and the like. You may still end up needing to see a Hospital Eye service…

Don’t put your contacts back in till you have been 100% better for at least 48hrs. If they are non-daily disposables, chuck ’em. If you still have problems in 48 hours from now on the drops you got, do seek help, and do so sooner if the vision gets worse in the meantime. Try reading small print with the affected eye. Other symptoms you should take seriously include a feeling like there is something stuck on your eye, blurring/fogging/haloes around things you see, and pain which appears to be in the eyeball itself.

but contact lens wearers get some interesting and different problems,

…as I just found out while reading the Optrex leaflet.

Have binned lenses, monthlies, and will stick to glasses for the mean time.

Probably should have popped in the opticians earlier when I had the chance. Ah well, will have to see what it’s like Boxing Day.

Cheers.

I haven’t read this whole thread but did anyone tell the op that you can by chloramphenicol over the counter for less than a prescription charge.
Ps most conjunctivitis is viral, self limiting and doesn’t even need chloramphenicol.
Bathe in cool boiled water, remove contact lens

No more eye kissing for us Jimmers…let me know when it’s cleared up. 🙁

DrP – Member
Let me know where your local hospital is…I’ll phone ahead and book an itu bed for you…
DrP

I’ve only had conjunctivitis once. Spent a full five weeks in ICCU after that.

So I have Guillain-Barré syndrome of the eyeballs?

Worst. Christmas. Ever.

Can I get your bikes if you lose your eyesight?

Have you got pins and needles in your eyeballs yet? 🙂

bruneep – Member
Can I get your bikes if you lose your eyesight?

Can I have your sunglasses?

Can I have your sunglasses?

Surely I’ll need those?

I thought you were slimmer ^

……very superstitious.

I thought you were slimmer ^

It’s mostly shoulder pads.