Like monsoon,conjunctivitis too comes early

Doctors have cautioned against the use of steroid eye drops and self treatment. “Conjunctivitis can be either allergic or infectious. Steroids have to be used only for allergic cases,however,there are no symptoms for patients to distinguish between the two. We have had two cases of corneal involvement so far,from self medications. People should avoid self treatment since it leads to unnecessary complications,” said Dr Tarun Kapur,senior eye specialist at Rockland Hospital. He added that popping antibiotics without guidance was also not advisable since the viral strain of the disease that has surfaced this year,would not be affected.

Dr Amit Khosla,senior consultant at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital said that this was the beginning of the annual phenomena. “We have just started getting the cases,numbers will shoot up in the next 15 days.”