KATHMANDU: Mero najik na aau hai timro aankha pakeko chha (Don’t come near me as you have red eyes)” — this is what we often get to hear when someone suffers from conjunctivitis. “However, conjunctivitis doesn’t transfer just from being near someone,” says Dr Shailesh Mani Pokharel, Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan. It transfers when a patient’s everyday things like towel, handkerchief, pillow, eye cosmetics et cetera are shared by healthy people. People sharing a common bed with the patient are also prone to getting the infection. “This is why patients aren’t advised to share their everyday things with healthy ones,” says the...
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