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After many days with "stinging", sometimes I have felt like a "prick", photophobia, some mornings I wake up with a small whitish web and a little red eye (but after a while it goes away). First they tell me that it is allergic conjunctivitis, and then that it could be that I have some infection. Just in case, they send me an antibiotic, corticosteroid eye drop that also contains a vasoconstrictor. I read the adverse effects and among many is the increase in IOP, conjunctivitis, local allergy, dry eye, blepharitis, neurotoxicity, …

If dry eye, blepharitis, ... are chronic pathologies. Is it logical that a drug to treat, among other things, allergies, blepharitis, keratitis and other eye inflammations can cause blepharitis, dry eye, allergies and eye inflammations? I do not get it.

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Hello and thank you for submitting your ophthalmology question to our forum.

The symptoms you refer to, indeed, seem to be typical symptoms of Dry Eye y Blepharitis, which as well nuances, is a chronic process.

The treatments given in these cases are symptomatic treatments, to alleviate symptoms. Among them we can prescribe something more innocuous type artificial tear and hygiene of eyelids for the day to day and in the acute phases, where the symptoms are more annoying, corticoid or antibiotic treatment, even acting applying the treatment Thermaeye Plus. For ocular surface problems, in our unit we also have drops that we make from the patient's own blood, which is of great advantage if we do not want to poison the eye with so many chemicals.

In your specific case, it should be done under ophthalmological supervision, because as you say, these treatments can have side effects, such as increased intraocular pressure.

Greetings,

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