Pink Girl = Pink Eye

Always a lover of anything pink, these green eyes went pink over the weekend, and that could never be good. A quick visit to the MD and the diagnosis: pink eye, also known as conjunctivitis. Teaching at a college, many of my students have young children, and apparently young children get pink eye. Does this mean I am much younger then I thought or just young at heart?

A clean fanatic, these hands get washed way too often, and after teaching from a classroom computer, Purell is used to remove any germs left on these hands; even at the grocery store a Clorox wipe is used to clean the cart prior to pushing it. As a way to kill germs from pink eye, Lysol Spray and Clorox Wipes covered many a surface at home, auto and office.

But what about the eyes themselves? Nothing to fear, Zylet is here. Zylet is Loteprednol, in a class of drugs called corticosteroids. Loteprednol inhibits processes in the body that cause inflammation (swelling) and contains Tobramycin, an antibiotic used to treat eye inflammation caused by surgery, infection, allergies or small children. In a few short days, actually 24 hours, these pink eyes will turn green again. Eye makeup can be worn again. I will feel like myself again.
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