It can be difficult to differentiate pink eye symptoms from dry eye symptoms because they both involve red, swollen eyes. Telling them apart often comes down to recognizing specific signs, such as ...

Two common eye infections are styes and pink eye (conjunctivitis). Both infections have symptoms of redness, watering eyes, and itching, so it can be hard to tell them apart. The causes of these ...

Most cases of pink eye are bilateral, meaning they occur in both eyes. If the cause is an infection, symptoms may begin in one eye and spread to the other. If the cause is an allergy or irritant, ...

Christine L. Larsen, MD, is an ophthalmologist practicing at Minnesota Eye Consultants where she serves as medical director for the four ancillary surgery centers in the practice. Bacterial pink eye ...