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A new test for Pink Eye
My daughter's friend had pink eye that did not get better with antibiotics and spread through her entire class at school. I was recently told that there is a new test for pink eye that determines viral from bacterial conjunctivitis. If the patient was told she had a virus, she could have remained out of school and prevented others from contracting the disease.
Why are physicians not using a test like this more? Shouldn't all kids have a test like this performed prior to returning to school or daycare?
Concerned Parent
Why are physicians not using a test like this more? Shouldn't all kids have a test like this performed prior to returning to school or daycare?
Concerned Parent
that is very interesting! thanks for the link! i've already shared the link with my peers!
It is called the RPS Adeno Detector. www.rps-tests.com
new tes...havent heard of it. any links?
no test could be performed prior to "returning to school or daycare". viral pink eye usually shows up in a child's eye *8 days* after exposure. thats the "latent" period. any viral test you could perform on the eye could only be done on an eye that was already red...but they're spreading the virus around during the latent period and no one even knows it. even staying home usually doesnt help a whole lot. by the time you figure out the kid has viral pink eye, they have likely already infected many others.
bacterial pink eye is way, way less contagious. its also not dangerous.
viral pink eye is not that big of a deal anyway. millions of kids get it every year. i think parents get worried over it and understandably so, but its pretty harmless for the most part.
no test could be performed prior to "returning to school or daycare". viral pink eye usually shows up in a child's eye *8 days* after exposure. thats the "latent" period. any viral test you could perform on the eye could only be done on an eye that was already red...but they're spreading the virus around during the latent period and no one even knows it. even staying home usually doesnt help a whole lot. by the time you figure out the kid has viral pink eye, they have likely already infected many others.
bacterial pink eye is way, way less contagious. its also not dangerous.
viral pink eye is not that big of a deal anyway. millions of kids get it every year. i think parents get worried over it and understandably so, but its pretty harmless for the most part.
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