Conjunctivitis Treatment at Home

Symptoms of conjunctivitis

• Watery eyes
•  Red painful eyes
• Itching eyes
• White or yellow fluid from eyes
• Difficult to open the eyes in bright light

Conjunctivitis treatment at home

If you are having any of these symptoms you are affected by some bacterial or viral eye infection. The first Conjunctivitis treatment at home is cleanliness and washing the eyes properly. Wash your eyes frequently with boiled and cooled water. Should not wash both the eyes at the same time, wash it individually to avoid the spread of the infection from one eye to another.

Take rest and sleep for time. Give rest to your eyes. You can put some drops of breast milk three times a day. Put two or three drops of clean amanakku oil (castor oil) on your eyes.  Put triphala churna on boiled water, cool it and wash your eyes. You can do same by using pachai karpooram also. You can also use aloe vera mixed water for washing your eyes this reduces the infection.

Use turmeric and potato hot compress to reduce the Conjunctivitis at home.

Dip cotton in warm honey and milk and clean your eyes frequently. If you have swollen eyes use ice packs to reduce the swelling.

Palakarai Parpam is available in siddha medicine, take 200 to 300ml and pour in  50ml of water and drink thrice a day. Put 2 to 3 drops of Padiga paneer on your eyes.

If the symptoms are in advanced stage consult yourdoctor and use a good conjunctivitis treatment eye drops.  The above methods should not be followed in the case of conjunctivitis treatment for babies.