8 Essential Home Remedies For Eye Infection

Eyes are your precious natural gift and to protect them should be your topmost priority. Being sensitive, even a mild infection proves detrimental to their overall health and well being and more severe infection often creates havoc. Therefore, the best thing one can do during such infections to get immediate relief is the home treatment.

Home treatment for eye infection (conjunctivitis) is very effective in reducing the pain, inflammation and drainage of the eyes. A bacterial eye infection usually lasts for 2 to 3 days, whereas viral may persist for 3 to 5 days. The following, natural, proven, simple but very effective home remedies will help you feel more comfortable until your infection vanish.

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8 Effective Home Remedies For Eye Infection

Ensure Personal Hygiene

Rinse your eyes with sterile water. If you wear glasses, clean, wipe it with disinfectant and avoid using contact lenses during eye infection and postponed its usage until the infection subsides.

Use separate moist warm or cold compresses for each eye. While cleaning your eyes, ensure that you wipe them from the side closer to your nose towards the other side. After wiping, the tissues and clothes should be discarded immediately in a dustbin.

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Use Cold Compresses

If you feel that your eye infection is due to allergy or dust as it usually happens, then you can use cold compresses to feel better. Place a clean, sterile and cool compress separately on the eyelids of each eye for six to seven minutes, three to four times a day to get soothing results.

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Use Warm Compresses

If you feel that your eye infection is due to bacterial or viral infection, then you can use warm compresses to feel better and soothe your symptoms.

Place a clean, sterile and warm moist compress separately on the eyelids of each eye for six to seven minutes, three to four times a day.

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Use Honey

Honey contains powerful natural antibiotics compounds and soothing agents and helps in fighting the infection of the eyes. However, the honey which is used as eye wash should be free from lead, artificial sweeteners and it should be pure.

Take two cups of sterile, filtered or purified water free from any chemical treatment and boil it, and then allow it to cool. Then, add three tablespoonful of honey and stir well. Allow the mixture to cool and use this mixture two to three times in a day to wash your eyes.

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Use Coconut Oil

The nutrients, natural plant hormones and other compounds present in pure unrefined coconut oil help boost immunity and prevent eye infection.

Coconut oil can be mixed with the warm compress and placed on the eyelids. Similarly, it can also be used as oral supplement twice daily for a better and healthy outcome.

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Use Breast Milk

Breast milk contains excellent antibodies and it is the natural means of fighting infections particularly of the eyes as it is soothing, pure and chemical free. Therefore, experts and practitioners of alternative medicine often recommend breast milk as the best home remedy for bacterial or viral conjunctivitis. But it should be fresh and pumped directly into both eyes three to four times a day.

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Use Chamomile Tea Bags

Many alternative healthcare experts recommend chamomile as the best topical herbal home remedy for eye infection for both bacterial and viral conjunctivitis.

To use Chamomile to its maximum benefits, place chamomile teabags in hot or warm water for a few minutes and remove excess water by squeezing them, and then place as warm compress on the eyelids of each closed eye for three to four minutes and repeat this treatment three to four times in a day to get excellent outcomes.

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Precautions

If you wear contact lenses, do not continue their use until your symptoms and infection disappear as it may aggravate your problem further. Similarly, chemicals, cosmetics and eye makeup should also be avoided during eye infection.