Section Navigation. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Syndicate. Minus Related Pages. On This Page. Find out about other conditions that can cause red eyes. You do not need to stay away from work or school unless you or your child are feeling very unwell. Speak to a pharmacist about conjunctivitis. They can give you advice and suggest eyedrops or antihistamines to help with your symptoms. If you need treatment for a child under 2, you'll need a prescription from a GP.
Encourage them not to touch the blister or kiss anyone while they have the cold sore, or to share things like cups and towels. You don't need to keep your child away from school if they have conjunctivitis. Do get advice from your pharmacist. Encourage your child not to rub their eyes and to wash their hands regularly. If your child has an ear infection and a high temperature or severe earache, keep them off school until they're feeling better or their high temperature goes away.
If your child has hand, foot and mouth disease but seems well enough to go to school, there's no need to keep them off. Encourage your child to throw away any used tissues straight away and to wash their hands regularly. You can treat head lice and nits without seeing a GP. If your child has impetigo , they'll need treatment from a GP, often with antibiotics. Keep them off school until all the sores have crusted over and healed, or for 48 hours after they start antibiotic treatment. Encourage your child to wash their hands regularly and not to share things like towels and cups with other children at school.
If your child has ringworm , see your pharmacist unless it's on their scalp, in which case you should see a GP. If your child has scarlet fever , they'll need treatment with antibiotics from a GP. Pinkeye caused by a virus usually goes away without any treatment. Pinkeye caused by bacteria is treated with antibiotic eye drops or ointment.
It can be hard to get kids to tolerate eye drops several times a day. If you're having trouble, put the drops on the inner corner of your child's closed eye — when your child opens the eye, the medicine will flow into it.
If you still have trouble with drops, ask the doctor about antibiotic ointment, which can be placed in a thin layer where the eyelids meet, and will melt and enter the eye. If your child has allergic conjunctivitis, your doctor may prescribe anti-allergy medicine, either as pills, liquid, or eye drops.
You also can give acetaminophen or ibuprofen to relieve discomfort check instructions for correct amount. Using cool or warm compresses on the eyes may make your child more comfortable.
Clean the edges of the infected eye carefully with warm water and gauze or cotton balls. This can also remove the crusts of dried discharge that make the eyelids stick together in the morning. If your child wears contact lenses, your doctor or eye doctor may recommend that the lenses not be worn until the infection is gone.
Then, disinfect the lenses and their storage case at least twice before letting your child wear them again.
If your child wears disposable contact lenses, throw away the current pair and use a new pair after the infection is gone. Doctors usually recommend keeping kids with contagious conjunctivitis out of school, childcare, or summer camp for a short time.
Infectious conjunctivitis is highly contagious, so teach kids to wash their hands well and often with warm water and soap. They also should not share eye drops, tissues, eye makeup, washcloths, towels, or pillowcases. Be sure to wash your own hands well after touching an infected child's eyes, and throw away items like gauze or cotton balls after they've been used. Wash towels and other linens that the child has used in hot water separately from the rest of the family's laundry to avoid contamination.
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