S: How Is Pink Eye Contracted?

[uncledaddy]

My 14 year old girl came home from school Friday just fine. She wakes up Saturday morning with irritated looking eyes. I'm thinking she may have gotten soap or something in her eyes or she just stayed up too long from the night before. Well by 5:00pm she's developing sleep buildup at corners, (what she refers to as eye boogers, lol). Anyway, by 8:00pm I decide to take her to emergency because it hasn't cleared and she said it was starting to hurt. I decide to take her the Naval Hospital at Camp Pendalton, (big mistake cause we end up there for 6 hours, but that's another thread). So I find she has Pink Eye, IN BOTH EYES, (never seen that before). She says no one she knows of has it. Now I'm no doctor but I thought that you have to touch someone's eyes who are infected and then touch your own eyes to get it. So how did she get Pink Eye? Doctor gave us eye drops and says she should be fine by the time school resumes on Tuesday, thank god.

[Jenny]

From touching, tears, sharing makeup, etc generally. She may not know anyone that had it visibly yet or who knows.

Good luck!

[Mommypooh]

My doc always told me I could get it from someone in a previous class having used my desk and touched their eyes adn then touched the desk. THen I come in and touch the desk adn touch my eyes. I got it so easy. It sucks but clears up pretty fast.

[brainsmile]

with pink finger

[Maarchk]

Pink eye can come from any contact that you dont know what has come before you. I picked it up in grade school with no idea where it came from. COuld have been a kid, but no one looked sick. Could have been a surface that i didn't think about or it could have been the groccery store i was at where everyone touches everything.
But yes, it doesn't mean you rub eyes or anything like that to get it.

[mechmike0034]

The medical explanation given in the movie Knocked Up is dead on...

[uncledaddy]

My girl is in her first year of high school, 9th grade, and she asked if she could wear eye makeup. Reluctantly, I allowed her to. So maybe she got Pink Eye from the new eye pencil from Walmart, (lesson learned), that I bought her? We are throwing it away and when she clears up I'll take her to to Macy's or something.

[chrissy]

If the eye make up was sealed from WM, then it wasn't that unless she shared it or someone touched it.

IF she swears she didn't share it, then contact the 800 for the company that made it.

[uncledaddy]

If the eye make up was sealed from WM, then it wasn't that unless she shared it or someone touched it.

IF she swears she didn't share it, then contact the 800 for the company that made it.

Thanks for the advise, I'll check into it.

I do feel a little ignorant about this though, I haven't seen or heard anything about Pink Eye since I was in grade school. Thought it was all but gone.

[chrissy]

oh no! It's alive in kicking in that lovely teenage world that exists underground, out of the sights of the loving parents.

Just like head lice...

[uncledaddy]

oh no! It's alive in kicking in that lovely teenage world that exists underground, out of the sights of the loving parents.

Just like head lice...

I'm learning these things. The kids are actually my sisters kids (5 mo. old girl, 2 year old girl, and 14 year old girl). I'm raising them beacause their fathers and my twin sis. are....well not fit to be parents. (that's why I have the screen name ). They have an older brother that I took care of but he is now 20. The issues with the girls are going to be trying. The boy was no problem.

Got a feeling that I'm going to be in for one heck of an experience with the girls.

[Jenny]

Good for you! That takes guts and a lot of love to be an uncledaddy.

Yeah, unfortunately pink eye & head lice are both still around. heh

[johnnymk]

I'm learning these things. The kids are actually my sisters kids (5 mo. old girl, 2 year old girl, and 14 year old girl). I'm raising them beacause their fathers and my twin sis. are....well not fit to be parents. (that's why I have the screen name ). They have an older brother that I took care of but he is now 20. The issues with the girls are going to be trying. The boy was no problem.

Got a feeling that I'm going to be in for one heck of an experience with the girls.

That is an amazing thing you are doing.

[Nija]

The medical explanation given in the movie Knocked Up is dead on...

[Napoleon54]

That is an amazing thing you are doing.

My hat is off to you as well, sir.

IMHO the world would be a lot better off if more folks would step up to the plate in situations like yours.

[Kevster]

Isn't it caused by Worcestershire sauce?

[uncledaddy]

Wow! Only three days and Michelle's eyes are almost completely cleared. Amazing thing, those eye drops.

Thanks for the kudos guys. I'm giving it my best.

Oh, chrissy, found that the eye pencil was sealed and she didn't share it so I don't think it was makeup. But thanks for suggestion.

[gwilks98]

My girl is in her first year of high school, 9th grade, and she asked if she could wear eye makeup. Reluctantly, I allowed her to. So maybe she got Pink Eye from the new eye pencil from Walmart, (lesson learned), that I bought her? We are throwing it away and when she clears up I'll take her to to Macy's or something.

sounds more like an allerg than pink eye...


I have heard that a purple mushroom punch can cause a pink or red eye. But never a brown eye. I must consult webopedia.

[uncledaddy]

sounds more like an allergy than pink eye...

Yeah, thought so too, but the Docs @ Pendalton say Pink Eye.

Update: Michelle's eyes have completely cleared but as with all meds will use drops til' gone.