Red eyes...2 months already...doctors drops dont work

[Radeon]

Hello, im father of a teen of 14 years old. He's been having some eye redness lately, and I (knowing nothing about eye redness or anything) brought him to the doctors about 2 weeks after his eye redness started. The doctor said it was normal, things like that happened, that my son had nothing to worry about and it would be back to normal very soon (he gave my son some drops). 1-2 weeks after this: nothing changed. My son panicked. I brought him to a doctor with a good reputation in taiwan, (eye redness for 1 month and a half now) who said that this had to be an allergy and gave some drops as well (...)
my son has been putting drops in his eyes 4 times a day and today his eyes are still as red as before, knowing that it has now beeen 2months!
Can somone explain this to me so i can help my son with more ease? Both eyes are affected by this eye redness and the eye redness varies. theres always a permanant vein that crosses the entire white of his eyes. Is this an allergy? Must i take my son to another doctor? is this serious? can eye redness be permanant? Please reply as soon as possible, and thank you in advance of the help!

[Forum-OD-MP]

sorry...dont know.  too many possibilities.  could be allergy, yes.  but could also be many, many, many more things.  dont know if its serious or not.

if you have not been to an eye specialist, you need to go to one. not a "regular" doctor, but preferably a corneal specialist.

[Radeon]

id like to add that his eyes itch pretty often (no really the eyes but the skin around it) thanks

[Ag-i-doc]

"itch" is the classic allergy symtom.  are the eyedrops he has been taking "anti-itch" eyedrops?  what are they?  post the name of the drop if you can

[Radeon]

Actually The doctor my son has seen is an eye specialist. unfortunatly im in Taiwan therefore the drops are in chinese: i can only read chloramphenicol oph. sol', 0.25% "kingdom".

but can my sons eye redness me pemanante?

thanks again for answering.

[Ag-i-doc]

chloramphenicol is an antibiotic.  if it doesnt work in 10 days or less, it will never work.  2 months of antibiotic use in NO BETTER than 7 days of antibiotic use.  ou might as well stop using that drop.

IMO your son probably needs some anti-ALLERGY eyedrop, not antibiotic.  especially if he complains that they are "itchy".  i'll list a few anti-allergy eyedrops available where i am in the United States...dont know how many of these if any will be available where you are

allocril
patanol
optivar
zaditor
alrex
livostin
elestat

go back to your "eye specialist" and see if he/she will write you an rx for one of those, or at least present the possibility to him.her tha this could be allergy related since its in both eyes, it was not affected by the antibiotic, and he complains of "itch".

[Radeon]

ok ill keep those names in mind. My son's claims the eye redness varies: one day its slightly red, the other, its really red.
And would sleeping well help?
thanks again for all the help

[Kirill]

Dear Radeon, I have the same symptoms for over 14 months now...
the doctors started to think that I was overreacting, only one of 4 different doctors (3 international doctors, the domestic ones said "You have nothing, it's just SIMPLE eye irritation") concluded that I had the computer eye syndrome, which was cured, but the irritation wasn't. I also have a couple "permanent?" red veins, which I have since the start of all this (so more than a year now). The irritation doesn't allow to look at a computer or a tv screen for longer than 20 minutes.(Anti-irritation drops didn't help, I have tested a LOT of them) I dont know if your son has this? Does he watch a lot of tv or playing games at the computer or reading a lot (pc)?

  Please reply as I am hopeless after such a long time,because no one seemed to have equivalent symptoms  as me, which drove me crazy, thinking that I have some new desease which isn't encountered yet by doctor.

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[shy8browneyez]

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