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1 Month Old Baby With Greenish Discharge From Right Eye

got i month old baby who has greenish discharge from her right eye doc gaave her chloramphenicol0.5% eye drops but it is not cured what is it? wht should i do now?
Mon, 11 Jul 2011
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it is definitely infectiion
clean the discharge with a clean cotton soaked in clean water often
put levofloxacin eye drops one drop in each eye every hour for two days and then 4 hrly for 5 days
prevent re infection by avoiding the contamination with clothes
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1 Month Old Baby With Greenish Discharge From Right Eye

it is definitely infectiion clean the discharge with a clean cotton soaked in clean water often put levofloxacin eye drops one drop in each eye every hour for two days and then 4 hrly for 5 days prevent re infection by avoiding the contamination with clothes