Home Remedies for Pink Eye
Our windows to the world are two delicate and complex organs. If they’re not looked after, they can saddle you with a host of problems, like irritation, dryness, eye infections, cataract and even blindness. Not only this, certain eye conditions can indicate if something’s gone wrong in some other part of the body too.
For instance, blurred vision can be a sign of diabetes, yellow eyes can be a cue to hepatitis or a marked difference in the pupil’s size can point towards a tumor developing in somewhere. Conjunctivitis, commonly known as pink eye, is one such annoying and highly contagious infection.
Understanding pink eye
When conjunctiva, the membrane that covers the eyeball, gets inflamed along with the inside of the eyelids, it causes the pink eye. This condition proves troublesome because it’s accompanied by the telltale pink eye symptoms of redness, eye pain, dryness, burning, blurred vision and a sticky discharge. The bad news is you can readily get it from others.
So, what causes pink eye? It can be a result of viral infections, like cold, acute respiratory infection, or disease such as measles, herpes simplex or herpes zoster. It can also be caused by bacteria, like Staphylococcus, Streptococcus and Hemophilus. Even environmental hazards, like wind, smoke, dust and allergic reactions to pollen, dust or grass can cause this infection. Less common causes include exposure to sun lamps or electrical arcs used during welding and blocked or inadequate drainage of the tear ducts.
Home remedies for pink eye
Pink eye treatment can involve over-the-counter drops and ointments or natural home remedies. However, in all cases applying warm compresses to the affected eye several times a day generally help reduce the discomfort. Let’s see what all pink eye remedies are available:
a. Homeopathy:
Some homeopathic home remedies designed to treat conjunctivitis include Pulsatilla, Belladonna and eyebright (Euphrasia officinalis). Homeopathic eye drops and eye washes can be made from eyebright or chamomile ( Matricaria recutita).
b. Boric acid:
Boric acid eyewash may help relieve the discomfort associated with pink eye, as it cleans and soothes the infected eye. Even a warm compress applied to the affected eye can help relieve the discomfort.
c. Tea:
Damp tea bags placed on the eyes can ease the discomfort of allergic pink eye. For this boil the tea bags and let them cool before placing them on the infected eye. You can also simply make a little stronger tea and then use an eye cup to hold the lukewarm tea in each eye.
d. Calendula:
Calendula, an antiseptic perfect for irritation due to pollutants and allergies, is effective against itching and inflammation. It’s generally used as a local compress and eyewash.
e. Jasmine flowers:
Distilled water in which jasmine flowers had been soaked overnight used as eye drops will work like a charm for pink eye, especially for the eye having yellow discharge.
f. Honey:
Putting drops of honey mixed in warm water in the affected eye is an effective pink eye remedy. However, be prepared for a little burning discomfort.
g. Saltwater:
Cotton balls soaked in boiled saltwater when placed on the eyelids kill the infection.
h. Chamomile:
Cloth soaked in water, in which chamomile has been boiled, when placed over the affected eye will help clear the infection.
i. Eyebright (Euphrasia officinalis):
Adding a few drops of eyebright tincture to boiled and cooled water and applying it to the infected eye through cotton balls is an effective way to cure pink eye.
Proper use of home remedies will help in getting rid of pink eye infection. However, always consult your physician when using these remedies.
Put a couple of drops of breastmilk into the infected eye. I didn’t believe it when my pediatrician told me to do this. It worked like a charm, I even had friends ask me for breastmilk to put in their children’s eyes. Breastmilk also works to help unclog tearducts in infants, another remedy that my pediatrician told me about and worked on my child.
Can i have some breastmilk?
Any kind of milk slightly warmed. Instead of cotton ball use bread.
Milk also gets rid of wrinkles.
Try sugar and water, use a cotton ball to drip it in the eye.
make really dark coffee and with a cloth put over your eyes several times a day, at least for fifteen minutes. By the next day the red should have completely gone away.
I heard that urine is a good cure just point aim and shoot. Stings a little but really work’s! Also works for athlete’s feet.
GO TO THE DOCTOR!!!!!!
ugghh i hate pink eye so much i have it in both eyes please help
Put lime or lemon or vodca, tequila ETC in the infected eye and it cures it but its gonna sting
Twinings green tea with jasmine seemed to soothe my eye by using the teabag over the eye.
okay i have pink eye in one eye and i can’t go to my friends house the next day that lives in another town…cause i moved… if i have pink eye… whats the easiest remidie for it to go away the next day…? i have virual pink eye…
I work in pedatrics. My 2 y.o. daughter had pink eye 2 days ago. I used some Johnson and Johnson baby shampoo. Lather it up and a warm towel and rub the eyes really good as if you are trying to clear it from the matter. Just make sure you the eye is clear of all matter with a seperate warm towel. This will alos help unclogg the tear ducts. This does not hurt in any way because this is a tear free shampoo. Use it 3 times a day. Her eyes looks great.
my husband has the pink eye and it is his bad eye that he burned a long time ago… i all i have done is put a warm tea bag in a wash cloth over his eye.. for about 1/2 an hour. it seems to help.
i have pink eye and i have had it for about a week now and i cannot seem to get rid of it i have tried the baby shampoo i have bought over the counter pink eye medicine and i have prescription anitbiotic eye drops and none of this is working someone please help me i wear contacts and have not been able to wear them because of the pink eye i dont have my glasses cause they broke so i am almost blind can someone please help me
The department of health has discovered people are treating pink eye with human urine and has warned this can have serious repercussions and may even lead to blindness.
Superintendent-General of Health Ronald Green-Thompson said the use of urine to treat the infection was picked up by senior opthalmologists around the province who found incidences of keratitis, a disease of the eye, in many of the patients.
“Keratitis can lead to permanent damage of the eye which will impair vision and even lead to blindness,” he said.
Department spokesperson Lindiwe Khuzwayo said treatment for pink eye was available at clinics and hospitals and people did not need to resort to home remedies.
Use warm salt water and it will kill the infection.
Most of you people are truly idiots. 1st of all– MIchi .. WTF?? putting non-tearing shampoo in a childs eye 3 times a day??? Research what makes the shampoo non-tearing.. they use a numbing agent. No shampoo or soap in human eyes is “non-tearing” without this. Numbing agent is not good for childrens eyes.
coffee, urine, vodka, tequila???– are you people insane? If you do this to yourself, keep it that way. Don’t advise others to try this, much less on their children.
Proven methods are researched and usually involve herbs and won’t do harm to your eyes.
Breastmilk for babies eyes is researched and proven to work without harm.
chamomile tea compresses can help fight infection.
Warm salt water will help but will burn like hell, and you must first boil the water add salt, then let it cool. These are your eyes for god-sake!
please don’t try these methods listed here on children.
I had several back to back shows and got pink eye. I used about 5 tablespoons of salt and added it to very warm, almost hot, water. I dabbed the cuetip into the water and directly to the eye. I also placed the cuetip on the lower inside lid and held it there for 15 seconds. I did this 8-15 times a day. Within 2 days the pinkeye was completely dried up.
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