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Rethinking Pink Eye

FOR CHILDREN WITH PINK EYE, which management approach do you think is most effective — antibiotic eyedrops or eyedrops without antimicrobial properties? A new Finnish study suggests that lubrication alone is as effective as antimicrobial eye drops.

Pink eye (conjunctivitis) is an infection or inflammation of the transparent membrane (conjunctiva) that lines your eyelid and covers a part of the white part of the eyeball.