BACKGROUND Acute infective conjunctivitis is a self-limiting condition that commonly presents to primary care. Patients' understanding of conjunctivitis, their reasons for attendance, and their responses to different management strategies, are unknown. AIM To explore patients' understanding of conjunctivitis and its management. DESIGN OF STUDY Qualitative study using semi-structured one-to-...

BACKGROUND Vertical transmission can result in neonatal infection and disease. Reducing the transmission of bacterial pathogens from mother to infant may be an effective means of preventing neonatal infection, including bacterial conjunctivitis. METHODS In a double-blind, randomized trial, we assessed the effect of administering a single dose of oral azithromycin to women in labour on bacteri...

PURPOSE To determine the function of γδ T cells in early- and late-phase responses in allergic conjunctivitis. METHODS Wild-type (WT) C57BL/6 and γδ T cell-deficient (TCR-δ(-/-)) mice were immunized intraperitoneally and challenged topically for 7 consecutive days with short ragweed pollen. Natural killer T (NKT) and γδ T cell-double-deficient mice were generated by treating TCR-δ(-/-) mice w...

It has been reported that antihistamines do not fully modify symptoms of allergic conjunctivitis in clinical settings, suggesting that histamine is not the only contributor to symptom generation in the disease. However, in the majority of experimental allergic conjunctivitis models, antihistamines are very effective in the reduction of symptoms. In the present study, we used our recently develo...

Conjunctivitis and its treatment have been widely described in ancient Indian medicine, 50 cases of Conjunctivitis (Acute) were clinically studied with Glycyrrhiza glabra along with comparative approach of Chlorophenicol. 25 cases studied with Glycyrrhiza glabra have shown encouraging results from which the author concludes that, the drug has got a definite role in Conjunctivitis.

purpose: the main purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of herpes simplex virus 1 and 2 (hsv-1 and hsv-2), varicella-zoster virus and adenovirus associated with conjunctivitis in swab samples of patients who referred to eye specialist hospitals in tehran. methods: in this cross-sectional study, swab samples from patients with acute conjunctivitis during the first sixth months of ...