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This can occur due to various conditions such as styes, conjunctivitis, and blepharitis. The eyes can also feel sticky if a person has dry eyes, due to a lack of moisture. Temporarily sticky eyes ...
It has an incubation period of approximately 10–12 days, and clinical disease begins with symptoms of fever, conjunctivitis, rhinorrhea, sore throat and a dry cough. Koplik spots (gray–white ...
Pink eye, also known as conjunctivitis, occurs when there’s an infection or swelling in your conjunctiva — the thin, transparent membrane that lies over the inner surface of the eyelid and ...
Viral conjunctivitis usually affects both eyes, but a bacterial infection may start in one eye and spread to both. Conjunctivitis is contagious, so a person with these symptoms should avoid ...
Credit: Getty Images / Uma Shankar Sharma This easy-to-read patient fact sheet explains how patients can differentiate between pink eye infection vs allergies, with key facts about all types of ...
It can be hard to tell a scratched cornea (corneal abrasion) from pink eye (also known as conjunctivitis). They can have similar symptoms, including eye redness, tearing, and sensitivity to light.
Reactive arthritis is accompanied by two symptoms or co-infections: urinary tract inflammation (causing urethral pain) and conjunctivitis (pink eye). The three conditions may occur simultaneously or ...
The Maine CDC is excited to announce that we are modernizing our Tuberculosis (TB) reporting system. Currently, inactive TB (also known as Latent TB Infection or LTBI) cases and suspect and confirmed ...
Children for whom this differential diagnosis could not be clarified during hospitalization were followed up for 6 months after discharge to clarify the final diagnosis. The diagnosis of ...
Topical steroids can also be used to treat ocular surface inflammation related to sarcoidosis, such as episcleritis, scleritis and conjunctivitis ... sarcoidosis is an inflammatory disease, several ...