Pinkeye: Check Your Symptoms

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Check Your Symptoms

If you answer yes to any of the following questions, click on the "Yes" in front of the question for information about how soon to see a health professional.

Review health risks that may increase the seriousness of your symptoms.

If you have any of the following symptoms, evaluate those symptoms first.

• Blurred vision, loss of vision, or blood in your eye: Go to the topic Eye Problems, Noninjury.
• An eye injury: Go to the topic Eye Injuries.
• An object in your eye: Go to the topic Objects in the Eye.
• A liquid or solid chemical in your eye: Go to the topic Burns to the Eye.

Yes

Do you have eye pain?

Yes

Do you have drainage from one or both eyes?

Yes

Are your eyes sensitive to light (photophobia)?

Yes

Have your eye symptoms continued longer than 7 days?

Yes

Have your eye symptoms continued after starting antibiotic treatment for an eye infection?

Yes

Do you wear contact lenses?

If a visit to a health professional is not needed immediately, see the Home Treatment section for self-care information.

Last updated:	December 06, 2007
Author:	Jan Nissl, RN, BS
Reviewed By:	William M. Green, MD - Emergency Medicine, Christopher J. Rudnisky, MD, FRCSC - Ophthalmology
Editors:	Susan Van Houten, RN, BSN, MBA, Tracy Landauer