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An eye infection can leave you with itchy, swollen eyes. While honey, eye drops containing euphrasia or ginkgo biloba extracts can help with conjunctivitis, a warm compress and a clove or chamomile eyewash can be used to treat styes. If you have blepharitis (inflamed eyelids, usually the edges), scrubbing the eyelids with tea tree oil or baby shampoo may help. When organisms like bacteria or viruses infect your eyes, they can get red and swollen. What can you do about this? Treatment for an eye infection can vary depending on its cause. So here’s a look at some common eye infections and how you can deal with them.

Conjunctivitis
Conjunctivitis or red eye is an eye infection involving inflammation and reddening of the mucous tissue that covers the front of the eye (the conjunctiva). You typically experience watering of the eyes and itchiness when you have this eye infection. Conjunctivitis can be caused by bacterial or viral infections. It can also be a result of an allergic reaction to, say, dust mites or pollen or your eye coming in touch with something that irritates it like chlorinated water or shampoo. If it’s caused by an allergic reaction, you might also get a sticky coating on your eyelashes. Conjunctivitis usually clears up on its own in a couple of weeks. Your doctor might also prescribe antibiotic eye drops (in case it’s caused by an infection) or anti-allergy medication (if it’s caused by allergies). But if you want to explore some natural remedies, here are some that have been found to be effective against conjunctivitis.

Honey
Applying honey might help when you have conjunctivitis caused by an infection. As one study showed, honey was found to reduce swelling, redness, pus discharge and the time in which bacterial infections cleared up. This was a result of its antibacterial properties

Euphrasia
Euphrasia or eyebright can be applied to the eyes to treat conjunctivitis. A study that used euphrasia eye drops to treat conjunctivitis found that 81.5% participants recovered completely while 17.0% showed a clear improvement. Euphrasia has astringent and anti-inflammatory properties. Aucubin, a bioactive compound in it, is also known to have antibacterial properties. These characteristics of eyebright are thought to work cumulatively to help with conjunctivitis.

Ginkgo Biloba
This herb is used to treat a variety of conditions. And there is some evidence that it could help with conjunctivitis too. A study that looked at patients who were treated with eye drops of ginkgo biloba extracts and hyaluronic acid ophthalmic solution and hyaluronic acid ophthalmic solution alone for the treatment of seasonal allergic conjunctivitis found that those treated with ginkgo biloba showed significant improvements in symptoms like swelling, redness and conjunctival discharge while those treated with a hyaluronic acid solution alone only showed small improvements.

Chamomile
Chamomile has a reputation as a soothing eyewash that helps with conjunctivitis. Chamomile has anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial properties which may account for its healing effects. Do check if you’re allergic to chamomile before using it as an eyewash though as some people are known to be sensitive to it.

Styes
Styes are small lumps on your eyelids that can be painful. You can also get a watery eye and experience a reddening of the eyelid or eye when you get a stye. Staphylococcus bacteria related eye infection usually trigger styes. These bacteria usually live on our skin without causing any trouble but can sometimes lead to infections. Styes usually get better on their own in about one to three weeks, especially after they burst and pus is released. But please don’t try to burst a stye yourself, it’s better to see a doctor if you have a really painful or swollen stye. Here are some things that you can do to get better if you have a stye.