The sun cleared up my eye infection!

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I've had this eye infection for a few weeks now, was using an antibiotic and a steroid to treat it, but these were just keeping the inflammation in check; the moment I stopped using it, the inflammation returned. I was getting worried about it, in fact, and was going to go back to the eye specialist next week.

Anyway, it was sunny and hot here today, and for the first time in a while, I went out and sat on a park bench to read my book, and get some rays, and wouldn't you know it, I come back home, look in the mirror, and my eye is CLEAR! It's completely remarkable. Jethro Kloss was right!

Funny how some people say health practitioners who deal in holistic remedies (like light therapy) are "full of shit", and yet two M.D.'s including an eye specialist were unable to fix my problem. :rofl: (Don't get me wrong - I wouldn't trade my primary care physician for anything, but I'm sure even he would admit that Western medicine can only do so much.)

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. I can believe it.

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2. Yep.

And you know how lying out in the sun makes you feel good? I'm sure our bodies need sunlight, why would they not? If it weren't for the fact that the ozone layer is in bad shape, I'd go out more. :hi:

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. I think sunlight helps us to make vitamin D or something like that.

[Breeze54]

3. They say that the sun is the best disinfectant.

I used to hang the cloth diapers out in the sun, after washing, for the same reason. ;)

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4. LOL - -my friend from Pakistan says that

they do that there, too. In fact, they will put mattresses and pillows on the roof during the day in order to kill mites and such.

I am just so relieved about this. :)

[TZ]

5. How do you know it wasn't clearing on its own

and that you just happened to go outside when it happened. Its really not possible for sun rays to clear up a deep seated infection in a short span of time...Light therapy might have some value but anything like that requires repeated exposure.
A "magic" disappearance like that is not possible.

Doctors aren't as full of shit as some people think. Its just hard for people untrained in the scientific method to understand objective analysis..something I find alot on DU

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7. First, the eye specialist

was unable to determine what the infection was, based upon an initial appointment over a month ago. So I don't know if it was a deep-seated infection or perhaps a fungal infection?

I was using the steroid, four drops spaced evenly over the course of a day over all that time, and as of this morning, I still had the same redness in that corner. So I went out about noon, returned at 2:00, and for the first time in weeks, that eye is now as white as the other one, no discomfort, no discharge (which I guess I didn't mention, but there was quite a bit of discharge from the eye).

[amitten]

9. SOME doctors are.

Believe me. :hi:

Finding a really good doc is like finding a really good hairdresser. It takes a lot of searching these days.

[LostinVA]

11. It's what the vet recommended when the rabbits' had eye infections

And, apparently, humans respond the same way to things as other animals. Otherwise, we wouldn't experiment on them, right?

[BuddhaGirl]

8. wow - very cool!

and it's true - western medicine *can* only do so much! I use holistic therapy myself...it definitely has it's place, just as that of western medicine.

Thanks for sharing! :hi:

[CreekDog]

12. "Western" Medicine includes advice such as getting a good night's sleep

exercising, reducing stress, doing things that make you happy, etc.

please don't caricature and make a straw man of so called "western" medicine. "western" medicine recommends whatever common sense, knowledge and/or scientific experiments and studies demonstrate to be helpful in a given circumstance compared to not doing that thing.

:rant:

[BuddhaGirl]

14. umm okay

Western medicine at times does not a common sense approach - just take an expensive pill with side effects vs. treating the whole body...one reason I choose to make distinctions between western medicine, and holistic medicine.

YMMV

[LostinVA]

10. That's what the vet recommended for the rabbits' eye infection awhile ago

It worked.

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13. I see. You're calling me a rabbit, huh.

Is that why I'm always so horny? :rofl: