Conjunctivitis

Conjunctivitis

1.Who is it for? How old is the patient? (adult/child)

2. What are the symptoms? Any discharge, pain, itching or visual disturbances?

• Usually clear, watery ophthalmic discharge but can be mucopurulent if bacterial conjunctivitis is present.
• Redness of the eye.
• Ophthalmic itching.
• Photophobia associated with more sinister pathology.
• Pain is usually gritty and there feels like there is a foreign body present. Does not cause severe pain.
  
• Any loss of vision or haloes around objects should be referred.

3. Are symptoms in one eye or both eyes? Where is the…