Treatment of conjunctivitis with folk remedies

Conjunctivitis is a fairly common inflammatory disease whose focus is the eyes.

To achieve the most rapid positive results in its treatment, it is recommended to combine medicinal effects with traditional medicine methods.

Conjunctivitis: causes, symptoms, types ^

Conjunctivitis is an inflammatory process that affects the mucous membrane of the conjunctiva( eye).

The main causative agents of conjunctivitis may be viruses, bacteria, fungi, infections or allergens that get on the mucosa due to the following factors:

• Immediate prolonged contact with the patient;
• Non-compliance with personal hygiene( dirty hands);
• Influence of the allergen - flower, home or street dust, animal hair, cosmetics, poplar fluff, household chemicals and others;Diseases of the upper respiratory tract.
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Traditional medicine divides conjunctivitis into several types - acute, chronic, purulent, viral, adenoviral, allergic, bacterial, herpetic and diphtheria.

For any type of conjunctivitis, the following symptoms are characteristic:

• Swelling and redness of the mucosa;
• Burning, pain, tingling and itching in the area of ​​a sore eye;
• Photophobia;
• Presence of mucous or purulent discharge.

Excellent auxiliary and health-improving effect in this disease is able to provide folk treatment of conjunctivitis, consisting of lotions, compresses and the manufacture of natural eye drops. For these procedures, the following safe folk remedies for the treatment of conjunctivitis are recommended:

• Raw potatoes, kombucha, dill and cucumber;
• Medicinal plants - bark of oak, chamomile, aloe, plantain, rose petals, cornflower, Kalanchoe and so on;
• Blueberries or dogrose;Beef fresh honey.

Treatment of conjunctivitis with home remedies also has anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial and sedative effects, as well as medicines prescribed by an ophthalmologist.

Treatment of conjunctivitis in adults

Adults are characterized by three types of the disease - viral, allergic, less often bacterial. The ophthalmologist at the examination determines the form of conjunctivitis and prescribes the corresponding preparations - ointments and drops.

The most common practice is home treatment of conjunctivitis, where the medicines prescribed by the doctor are ideally combined with the use of available folk procedures in the form of herbal rinses with compresses.

Treatment of conjunctivitis in children

Children are more likely to have a bacterial form of conjunctivitis, for which the doctor appoints disinfectant drops and anti-inflammatory ointments.

In addition to the main prescribed therapy, it is necessary to follow certain rules:

• For the period of treatment, exclude a visit to any institution;
• After every two to three hours, gently wash the baby's eyes with herbal decoction( chamomile, oak bark);
• Clean hands thoroughly before applying ointment or instillation of eye drops;
• Do not allow the child to rub the eye area.

Treatment of conjunctivitis in pregnant women

Treatment of this disease during pregnancy is practically the same as conventional therapeutic methods.

For expectant mothers, it is acceptable to treat conjunctivitis at home, where they can easily combine the use of pharmacological drugs with safe folk procedures.

An additional measure for pregnant women is to strengthen immunity with a vitamin complex and a balanced vitaminized diet.

Treatment of conjunctivitis in newborns

Any medical treatment for inflammation of the mucous membrane of the eyes of a newborn child should be prescribed by a doctor. To resort to a selftreatment in this case it is counter-indicative, differently it is easy it is possible to aggravate a current of disease.

Among folk remedies, it is recommended to use chamomile or calendula in the form of broths for washing the sick eyes of the newborn from mucus or pus.

Treatment of conjunctivitis at home: folk recipes ^

Treatment of acute conjunctivitis

• Pour the flowers of cornflower( st.l) for half an hour with boiling water( 150 ml) and rinse the eye with several times daily;
• Crude potatoes to grate, wrap gruel in gauze and attach to eyes for 15 minutes.

Treatment of chronic conjunctivitis

• Collect clover flowers, grind, take st.l.plants and insist in a glass of boiling water for 30 minutes. Prepared infusion should be done regular lotions;
• Cut the althea root, then in the amount of 10 tsp.pour in half a liter of cold water, leave to infuse for the night. Medicinal infusion should be washed eye several times, preferably before depositing the ointment or drops.

Treatment of bacterial conjunctivitis

• Calanchoe juice mixed with warm water 1: 1, moisten the fleece in it and apply to the eye area for 10 minutes;
• 250 ml boiling water pour st.l.celandine, place for 5 minutes on the fire, then insist 20 minutes, strain, add tsp.honey and use a decoction in the form of lotions.

Treatment of purulent conjunctivitis

• Two st.l.of the hips, pour boiling water from a glass, bring to a boil, then insist for about an hour.
• In the resulting broth of broth moisten cotton pad and apply to the eyes for 15 minutes.

Treatment of viral conjunctivitis

• Pour a glass of boiling water for an hour st.l.chamomile, then filter the infusion, moisten the gauze in it and attach it to the inflamed eyes. The number of daily procedures is 4-6;
• Ochanka( two tablespoons) put in half a liter of boiling water for an hour. Infusion carefully strain and rinse their eyes in the morning and at night.

Treatment of Adenoviral Conjunctivitis

• Juice of plantain moisten cotton wool and apply to the diseased eye for 5 minutes;
• Calendula three tbsp.pour for 2 hours 1.5 cups of steep boiling water, after which a warm, strained infusion wash your eyes three times every day.

Treatment of allergic conjunctivitis

• Aloe vera juice( 1) is combined with warm boiled water( 10), then moistened with cottonwood and apply for 10 minutes to the sore eye. The number of procedures per day is four;
• Dried blueberries pour for an hour with boiling water in a ratio of five tablespoons.on a half liter, then add st.l.honey and drink blueberry tea daily for 150 ml four times.

Treatment of conjunctivitis with medicinal herbs

Herbal eye drops:

• Collect and grind four kinds of grass - snapdragon, chamomile, black nightshade leaves and althea root;
• Ст.л.collect insist in half a glass of boiling water until it is completely cooled;
• Carefully - the infusion filtered several times must be dripped into the eye area into two drops;
• The number of procedures per day is one.

Prevention and useful advice on how to avoid the appearance of conjunctivitis ^

To effectively combat conjunctivitis and prevent possible relapses, it is necessary to pay careful attention to the following preventive measures:

• Regularly clean the hands after visiting the street, toilet, public places, after contact with animals,d;
• Do not use other people's cosmetics;
• With allergic form, identify and exclude allergen;
• Use disposable wipes and towels;
• Do not contact a sick person.