Eye Discharge Started After Swimming

Hi
I would suggest taking her to an optometrist rather than the doctor. One of our friends is an optometrist. He suggested we shouldn't take eye problems to an MD but rather an eye doctor - after all that is what they are trained in.

The water / chemical levels are likely fine. She could have easily picked up a virus from pool water too, maybe pink eye.

In any case it will likely be easily fixed up with some professional input.

I use a natural remedy called Occuheal that I get from my naturopath.
Hope it gets better soon.

My daughter just had pink eye, she woke up in the middle of the night crying in pain and rubbing her eye, of course it was a weekend and had to take her to All Children’s, they diagnosed with pink eye, highly contagious, and treated with eye drops , not knowing whether it was caused from viral or bacterial . I followed up w/reg doctor and he gave her oral antibiotics as well, because it was so swollen. He also checked for possible scratch on eye, discharge usually indicates bacterial though my daughter had none, she was better in three days. The pink eye that caused your Childs eye infection sounds more like environmental/ allergies pink eye. Since you mentioned swimming in a chlorine pool before the episode. I would say she is having an allergy to the chlorine.

Which YMCA were you at? My mother took my kids swimming at the Campo Y and got an eye infection a day or so later. She went to the opthomologist and is using medicated drops.

My son had more rounds of pink I than I can number.
(he doesnt anymore, at 16).

At 3, he LOVED goggles
and was VERY CAREFUL to use only his own
(protecting him from what others had)
and was instructed NOT to share them.
Sometimes that part was tough,
but it worked to minimize exposure.

I work with the metaphysics of things,
and once he addressed some spiritual things
he needed to look at clearly, the eyes were fine.

In the future you may want to go directly to an eye doctor instead of the MD. My son had a reaction to chlorine once where his eye looked aweful, but it was just a bit of an inflammation that occured. We saw Dr. Schulz on Little Road in New Port Richey. He was wonderful. He gave us a free sample of drops and it cleared it right up.