EYE, PUS OR DRAINAGE

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Symptom Definition

• Yellow or green discharge or pus in the eye.
• Dried pus on the eyelids and eyelashes. The eyelashes are especially likely to be matted together following sleep.
• The whites of the eye may or may not have some redness or pinkness.
• The eyelids are usually puffy due to irritation from the infection.

Cause

• Bacterial infection on top of a cold in the eye.

See More Appropriate Topic (instead of this one) If

• No pus in eye, see EYE, RED (WITHOUT PUS).
• Main symptom is itchy eyes, see EYE ALLERGY.

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Reviewed 8/2004

Revised 7/2004

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