Can having pink eye permanently damage my eyes?

Can having pink eye permanently damage my eyes?

Harold Kaiser (Practicing Allergist and Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School) gives expert video advice on: How are insect allergies treated?; What are "food allergies"?; What are "hives"? and more...

Pink eye is a descriptive word for inflammation or irritation of the eye. If you've got a foreign body in there, if you've got a spec of metal that flew into your eye when somebody was hammering next door and it embedded itself, and it's constantly causing a source of irritation, then yes, you can damage yourself permanently. So, with eyes, if the “pink eye” symptoms persist, see somebody and if you don't get a satisfactory explanation, get a secondary opinion.