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Have Red Eye With White Discharge And Swollen Facial Gland. Taking Medication. Safe Remedy?

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Posted on Fri, 1 Mar 2013
Question: I had an eye infection for 2 weeks which my doctor thought was viral.: my facial glands were swollen too.I took oral valtrex, zirgan drops. I also took lastacaft drops during first week only. 36 hours ago, my eye was clear and my opthamalogist thought I was pst the breakout. However i put a drop in yesterday from the old lastacaft bottle. Today, i am completely red and have white discharge. Could i have contaminated the old lastacaft bottle without knowing it and gotten n immense reddening w/i 36 hours so quickly as reinfection?
I have good evidence to suggest hsv 2 was infection. I find it hard to believe after being completely clear, it could come back so strong in 36 hours? I can only guess i reinfected it with contaminated drops...
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Answered by Dr. N K Mishra (6 hours later)
Dear XXXXXXX,
thanks for sending your query to us.
You were being treated for viral keratoconjunctivitis and anti allergic tt.This looks like bacterial infection.
in treating viral infection we always like to add anti biotic drops as well to take care of super added bacterial contamination.
In your case we would presume this bacterial infection occured spontaneously and it will be difficult to to get infection from 2 week old eye drop.
Let us have antibiotic drops and you should be fine.
Please do get back to me in case of any further query in this regard.
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Have Red Eye With White Discharge And Swollen Facial Gland. Taking Medication. Safe Remedy?

Dear XXXXXXX,
thanks for sending your query to us.
You were being treated for viral keratoconjunctivitis and anti allergic tt.This looks like bacterial infection.
in treating viral infection we always like to add anti biotic drops as well to take care of super added bacterial contamination.
In your case we would presume this bacterial infection occured spontaneously and it will be difficult to to get infection from 2 week old eye drop.
Let us have antibiotic drops and you should be fine.
Please do get back to me in case of any further query in this regard.