Pinkeye?

[Homemaker]

We've used regular baby shampoo to cure pink eye. I lather it up on my hands and then wash my eye area with it while leaving my eyes open as much as possible. Sometimes you have to do it more than once. It sounds crazy but It really works.

 

[Mattemma]

wash cloth soaked in eyebright tea. I used that to clean the morning gunk,and then a few drops into the clean eye.

Might have tossed in a goldenseal teabag too.

 

[FarmerJamie]

Thanks everyone - its better today, DW took DD to the doctors, and she may have a slight case of influenza that may have contributed.

@abi, Dace - yeppers, wash everything, and wash it again. Lots of warm compresses last night. The eyes look much better today.

@Javamama thanks for the Similasan lead, I'll need to look for it.

@ORChick - thanks, I'll have to keep that one in mind, too.

@breastmilk discussion et al - you ladies just crack me up! I fondly remember milking dairy cows on my grandpa's farm, giving the cats a squirt. You've now replaced that pure mental image with something more disturbing.

Thanks again!

 

[lwheelr]

We just use saline drops to rinse the eyes out. Generally the body will kick an infection on its own, rinsing the germs out helps give it a hand in doing so.

The last one I had was when I had salmonella that went systemic. Pretty yucky.

 

[raro]

Well, I can give you a more disturbing image!
My husband was from a South Pacific island. He mentioned that on his island, it was common knowledge that a cure for pinkeye was a few drops of urine. After I got over gagging, I insisted he was joking, but I looked it up on Google and yep, they do it.

What I want to know is what idiot came up with the idea in the first place!!! Gaagggh...

 

[abifae]

Urine is sterile. *grins*

 

[Denim Deb]

But what it comes out of isn't. Maybe you need to dip it in hot water first?

 

[tulie13]

I use silver nasal spray when I'm fighting a cold or sinus infection, it's ionic silver, not colloidal, but there are SOME good colloidal products out there, too. I have put a couple of drops of this in my eye when it looked like I was getting pink eye or a stye. It seemed to knock it out very quickly.

Burned like the dickens, but it worked!!!

 

[Soap Junkie]

Just cured my granddaughters pink eye with silver and acv. We dropped silver directly in the eye and wipped the eye with an ACV rinse on a washcloth. Took about 2 days to be gone.

 

[deb4o]

raro- thats too funny, I thought I was the onlyone who had ever herad of that remedy.

When my DS was in daycare, his " anutie" told me on night when I was picking him up that "this baby has pinkeye" to my horror I was ready to rush him to the ER when she said " oh on, just take his first diaper of the morning and wipe his eyes with it" I thought what a wack-o. Instead I took him to the ER,told the DR what she said and he told me that yes urine is sterile,but not a good choice to use in your eyes. It is one home remedy we never used!