Pink eye treatment is usually fast, safe, and effective. Pink eye is just another name for conjunctivitis, which is an inflammation or infection of the transparent membrane that lines your eyelid and part of your eyeball. The pink or redness occurs because the small blood vessels in the whites of your eyes are now irritated and enlarged.

There are quite a number of home remedies floating around for the treatment of Pink Eye. But they pretty much come down to the same thing. Some suggest the use of a compress, which is simply a moist soft cloth or pad held over the eye, while others indicate that you should swab or bathe the eye. They only differ in what they suggest you should put in the water.

Treatment:

1. Clean water should be used. It doesn't have to be sterilized - ordinary tap water is fine. If you're in any doubt about the quality of the tap water, you should boil it, or use bottled water.

2. Put a teaspoon of sea salt in one cup warm water and stir until dissolved. You can use an eye dropper and put two to three drops of the saline solution you have created directly into your eye or you can use a cotton ball. Saturate the cotton ball and place it on your eye allowing the water to run into your eye. This is a tried and true remedy that has been used for many years and is still a staple in England.

3. Since tea contains bioflavonoids that can help to ward off infection and reduce inflammation, many people use moist or partially used teabags as a home remedy for pink eye by placing the tea bag over their eye.

4. Apple juice is recommended for blepharitis-infection of the eyelids-which may be asso¬ciated with conjunctivitis or come on its own accord. Peel off a two inch slice of apple, bend in half with the skin sides together till the juice appears, then press on the eye lids gently.

5. If you're planning to swab or bathe the eye, then use something small, soft, and disposable. A make-up removal pad is ideal, or a small wad of cotton wool. Wipe the eye gently, in an outward motion (i.e. from the nose to the ear). Try not to use the same part of the swab twice.

6. Placed damp tea bags on your infected eye this will ease the discomfort associated with it. First boil the tea bags and let them cool then place them on infected eye or you can also simply make a little stronger tea and then use an eye cup to hold the lukewarm tea in each eye.

7. Care with pillow cases, towels, that have been contaminated and not shared only need to be washed appropriately in hot water and detergent per usual. Since hygiene is so difficult with young children, keeping them home from day care or school for the first 1-2 days of treatment may be necessary to avoid spreading to other children. Overall "pink eye" is usually a nuisance problem that is of little health risk and easily managed.

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