Can I treat pink eye at home?

Can I treat pink eye at home?

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...

There are a lot of over-the-counter eye drops that are symptomatically okay - they'll provide symptomatic relief, they'll clear up the pinkeye (the bloodshot eyes). If it's a matter of irritation, or you've rubbed your eye, or you've come into contact with something that's no longer in there, then eye drops may be all you need. If you're still getting recurrent symptoms after trying the drugstore type of eye drops, then it's a bigger question than we can answer over the phone. If the symptoms are chronic or chronically recurrent, you should see somebody.