Allergic Pink Eye Treatment
If you wear contact lenses you ll be advised to stop wearing them until treatment is complete.
Allergic pink eye treatment. Your doctor can help if you have conjunctivitis caused by an allergy. Combination antihistamine vasoconstrictor eye drops. Allergy medications and certain eye drops topical antihistamine and vasoconstrictors including some prescription eye drops can also provide relief from allergic conjunctivitis. Medications used to treat allergic conjunctivitis include.
Pink eye treatment is usually focused on symptom relief. Your doctor may recommend using artificial tears cleaning your eyelids with a wet cloth and applying cold or warm compresses several times daily. Antihistamines may help bring fast relief from symptoms either as an oral dose or as eye drops. These are rarely prescribed and only if.
This type of conjunctivitis is usually treated with antibiotic eye drops or ointments. These medicines reduce redness swelling and itching by blocking the. These medicines reduce redness by constricting small blood vessels in the eye. Naphazoline and pheniramine naphcon a opcon a visine a ak con a ocuhist combination antihistamine mast cell stabilizer eye drop.
In some cases your doctor may recommend a combination of drugs to improve symptoms.