What should I do if I think I have pink eye?

What should I do if I think I have pink eye?

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...

Eyes are valuable and we only have two of them. It's important that if these your suspicions of having pink eye persist, have somebody take a look at your eye and try to nail down what it is you have and treat it. If the first physician doesn't get it, or your eyes are persistantly red, or you have recurrent pink eye, it's probably worth a visit to your opthamologist to see if there might be intrinsic eye disease contributing to this possible pink eye.