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Cannot See Properly From Viral ConjunctivitisQuestion by Taimi (Auckland, New Zealand) on 08/30/2006
Replied by Ted (Bangkok, Thailand)
After treatment with hospital and loosing my entire month's salary it simply got so much worse, that I could not see and the eyes were bulging out of the sockets where the white eyes were 100% red. It was so red, it started to bleed out with a bloody sac.
I went to several drugs stores, bought many medicines in an attempt to cure this. As usual, I haven't been lucky with any antibiotics or OTC medicine as the viral/bacteria is completely resistant to them all.
With this string of bad luck I had no choice as usual, but to painfully seek my own cures. After lots of trial and error, I found magnesium chloride, at about 5%-10% solution to be most helpful.
The water I used was ordinary tap water at the time. I varied the percentage between 5% to 10% depending on my conditions at the time. When it was very serious, as my eyeballs were already peeling away, I used a solution closer to 10% to bring relief. Within seconds, I felt instantly better (along with less red color) which is a miracle since, none of the other OTC medicines offer any kind of relief. Then later on I reduced down to 5% as conditions improved. Most people I would probably recommend only 5%, mine was rather serious since I treated myself very late in the game.
I calculated the concentration by mixing and adding the magnesium chloride to a point where the level of pain was tolerable enough or that the pain from the viral conjunctivitis was reduced.
Most borax, boric acid eye wash were for some reason not helpful for my condition, but they were supportive only after conjunctivitis was gone of course. So I guess the name eye wash was exactly what it was - just for cleaning only.
As to whether ACV will kill the virus, you need to dilute enough to a point where it doesn't hurt the eye. The concentration that is least painful appears to be 1 tablespoon of ACV to 5 tablespoon of plain water. At the time of my problems, ACV weren't that helpful. It was too weak and if I increased the concentration it hurts, but the conjunctivitis pain stayed. Mine was a rather a very virulent form of conjunctivitis. Therefore, it might work for you assuming it is mild of course.
To prevent reinfection, once you mix it, you will use it only for one day and discard it.
As a postcript, it took only about 2 days to completely cure it. Normally most mild conditions takes 7 days, but mine was unique, it refused to go away. I later did some more experiments and found later on that if I would have added the zinc chloride and magnesium chloride the efficacy in stopping the conjunctivitis would reduced to only one day or less.
However, the zinc chloride concentration for eye drops should be surprisingly low, at only about 0.1% concentration, while magnesium chloride should ideally be close to about 5%. To be sure how well the newer formula works for sure, I guess I have to wait until I get another conjunctivitis!
As a reminder, conjunctivitis or red eye condition are very infectious. YOu need to prepare a magnesium chloride 10% solution as a hand antiseptic to protect against your hands touching the eyes by killing them first. So if you happen to visit someone with this condition apply a 10% magnesium chloride solution to your hand first as a way to protect yourself from communicable disease. Add just 1% zinc chloride to improve its antiseptic ability. U.S. hospitals use only alcohol handwash, but they don't provide the staying power or protection once the alcohol has evaporated. Therefore my recommended solution should at least protect you from your friends against it. Ted
Replied by brendon (Singapore, Singapore) on 06/10/2009
Replied by Ted (Bangkok, Thailand) on 06/11/2009
Replied by Ted (Matthews, Nc) on 07/25/2010
I have conjunctivitis and was wondering what is the exact mixture of magnesium chloride to water Should I take 4 flakes of magnesium chloride to say 5 teaspoons of water and mix it up Should I take a cotton ball and dip it in the solution and have that drip in my eye Or should I just take this solution and dump it in my eye
Thank You
Replied by Waleed (Ny) on 10/16/2016
I got pink eye, and tried colloidal silver to no improvement so out of frustration, I put a drop of undiluted magnesium chloride oil in my eye and I had never in my left felt such immense pain. It felt like I had gone blind! Do you think it's possible to have damaged the eye tissue from that application I woke up this morning and don't see very clearly.
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