by Frank Will

Created on: August 15, 2011

Are there any pink eye home remedies that actually work? The answer to this question is a very definitive yes; however, in order for them to work effectively you must strengthen your eyes, your connective tissues, as well as build up your immune system with three key nutrients.

If you combine vitamins A and C and the mineral zinc with these remedies, they will have a much better chance of treating this condition and then eliminating it once and for all.

What is it?

In fully understanding the pink eye home remedies that actually work, it is very helpful to understand what this condition is, the potential causes of it, and then exactly why these nutrients are so important in this process.

Pink eye, which is also known as conjunctivitis, is best described as an inflammation or some type of infection of your transparent membranes, which are the membranes that line your eye as well as a portion of your eyeball. Once this inflammation has occurred, it causes the small vessels in these membranes to become much more apparent, and as a result, they will turn the whites of your eyes pink or a dull red in coloration.

Once this has developed, two things can occur if it is not treated and stopped; it can affect your vision and it can very easily become contagious. Although in the vast majority of cases the most dangerous threat is that it will spread, it can affect your vision if it becomes severe enough. However, whatever form it takes, there will be one common theme; it is extremely irritating as well as embarrassing.

Symptoms:

The list of symptoms with pink eye is not very extensive as there are five signs you can watch for; redness, itching, a gritty sensation, discharge, as well as tearing. The pink or reddening that occurs most commonly affects only one eye, however, depending on the underlying cause; it can also affect both eyes. The itching that occurs may also affect just one eye, but what makes this condition so challenging is that even if both eyes do not turn pink, they can very easily both itch.

This is one of the major reasons that any type of pink eye home remedies must be combined with these key nutrients, as they can attack this itching internally very quickly. You may also experience a sandy or gritty sensation in the affected eye, but just like the itching, it can affect both of your eyes even without the pink or red tints. However, perhaps the best known of the five symptoms outside of the change in color is the discharge that occurs.

This discharge

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