[Closed] Conjunctivitis - A&E, right?

Go to Out of Hours, not A&E

Ring 111

Phone 111.

The doctor for some drops if it's that bad. Otherwise just boil up some water, let it cool and use it to clean your eyes.

My 2 year old's just got it. The doc gave him drops just in case as it's christmas and they're shut for 4 days.

You're probably just better off laying down in the road now so you can get a lift in an ambulance and fast-track the A&E queue.

A+E's are on their knees in some parts of the country, I'm sure it'd be a lot quicker and easier if you went to out of hours surgery.

Cooled camomile tea soaked into cotton wool is very good. I would have thought your local chemist could sort eye drops for conjunctivitis.

As far as I know A&E stands for accident and emergency. I don't think the fact that it 'Looks like Xmas ride will be done wearing me glasses' counts as either.

Can i have a whoosh parrot in aisle three please.

Walk in Centre.

Insert glasses up rectum and then call 999

To all the walk-in centre, non-emergency peeps, all i'm saying is that when Jamie dies through not going to A&E, I do not be wanting to hear any complaints about a lack of .gif posts on the forum.

tbh it's probably the early onset of Pink Eye so there's nothing anyone can do anyway 🙁

[i] I do not be wanting to hear any complaints[/i]

You be from Cornwall then?

You can get chloramphenicol from a pharmacist with no prescription.

I do not be wanting to hear any complaints

You be from Cornwall then?

Been working on my accents. Thanks for the compliment.

Think we need that parrot in aisle 4, 6, 8 now.

Seriously, do not waste A&E time on that!! Last time I had it I managed to get Opticrom eyedrops from a Tesco with a pharmacy.....but any old pharmacy will do.

Might aswell leave the avery door ajar it'll save running backwards and forwards.

You could try phoning the eye clinic at your nearest hospital.

What about my hangnail?

A+E right?

Must be a troll?

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Conjunctivitis-infective/Pages/Treatment.aspx

Please don't waste A&E's time Jamie. 🙁 I refuse to believe you could be that selfish.

Quite contagious, isn't it? I'd be careful around your family over Christmas. I'd hope the drops/cream that I've had in the past doesn't need a prescription and can be bought over the counter at a chemist?

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

Do not feed the troll.

You can buy over the counter antibiotic eye drops from the pharmacy

Breast milk works really well too..

Do not feed the troll.

No trolling here.

Sorry, people. I honestly thought from the intro, it was obvious I wasn't genuinely going to go A&E for conjunctivitis.

Although, after seeing the direction it went in, I did decide to let it run 8)

Anyway, just back from Tesco pharmacy with some eye drops.

Cheers for advice.

I was hoping you'd been squirted in the eyes with breast milk

Me too.Is disappoint.

It ruddy well hurts, actually!

Feels like I have bene punched in the eye 😡

...maybe I should go A&E.

I'm just back from the hospital, A & E reception was surprisingly quiet.

[quote=Jamie ]It ruddy well hurts, actually!
Feels like I have bene punched in the eye
...maybe I should go A&E.
Try cooling it down with a lump of snow.

I'm just back from the hospital, A & E reception was surprisingly quiet.

Conversely, it took me 20 minutes to get out of Tesco's car park 😡

Try cooling it down with a lump of snow.

*looks out window*

Will have to do with a lump of wind.

it took me 20 minutes to get out of Tesco's car park

Couldn't see the EXIT signs? You want to get your conjunctivitis looked at 🙂

There'll be something in a kitchen drawer. Dog ear drops sorted my ear ache out.

[quote=5thElefant ]There'll be something in a kitchen drawer. Dog ear drops sorted my ear ache out.They were in an old box?

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

DrP

As you have done, pharmacist is the place to go

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*

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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 [b]Cooled[/b] 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!

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 [url= http://www.optrex.co.uk/optrex-range/drops/optrex-infected-eye-drops/ ]Optrex leaflet.[/url]

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?

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I thought you were slimmer ^

......very superstitious.

I thought you were slimmer ^

It's mostly shoulder pads.