Iodine & Pink Eye

I am consuming 5 drops of Iodine per day while doing IP6 and on Friday developed a huge pink cyst on my right upper eyelid that looked like Pink Eye during the evening. By morning it had completely disappeared. I was relieved because I did not want to have to stand in line at the clinic to be seen. Thought I would post some information I found here as I have not seen this posted as of yet. This does contain information about Iodine.


http://www.eyeadvisory.com/conjunct.html


Pink Eye, or Conjunctivitis

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Conjunctivitis, caused by a common virus, is the plague of the schoolyard and office. Some varieties of this highly contagious virus - adenovirus - can be transmitted by infected pools of water, and are usually short-lived, (three to four days). But other strains occur often in wintertime and spread because people are clustered together, and actually set off epidemics.

Children will more likely get an associated cold from the virus than are adults. The eye can become red (from pink to blood red), with swollen lids, tearing and discharge. In some cases, a second eye can become involved shortly after the first.

Rubbing increases the chance of spread to the second eye, and to family and friends. This bacteria is more contagious than chickenpox.

If your eyes or your child's are stuck together upon waking, and/or you have a small, tender lump in front of your ear (the site of a lymph node) the diagnosis of pinkeye can be made.

In the past, the condition was treated with Antibiotic eyedrops, which have no effect on virus multiplication. Occasionally eye doctors will treat the condition with a steroid eye drop, which two-thirds of the time will help quiet the eye (reduce the swelling) but also may inhibit your white blood cell defenses. In some patients, this treatment can actually prolong the condition.

I have found a 150-year-old treatment for virus-caused eye infections that is inexpensive, simple and rapidly effective. A five percent povidone Iodine solution, which is commonly used to prepare all patients for eye surgery, happens to the effective cure. This can be either swabbed on the inside of eyelids, or used as a drop. This results in complete resolution for most people within 24 hours. After publishing an article about using Iodine as a treatment in the Annals of Ophthalmology, Dr. Thomas Neuhann, a German opthalmologist, informed me that he had been using this since experimenting on himself in the 1980s. Another paper has been published by a Czechoslovakian researcher, who used more frequent doses in treating an epidemic in his town.

One hundred and fifty years ago, iodine was used as a matter of course by a doctor in Ohio to treat eye infections. For some reason this treatment, although effective, was lost to time.
People have been using it as an antiseptic in the operating room, but ignored its anti-virus properties. Iodine is used all the time for eye surgeries and almost all general surgical procedures to sterilize the operative area.

This new treatment will soon be available to ophthalmologists in a single dose pack. When this happens we will inform you via a posting on the Eye Advisory website.

Good hygiene is always important. Avoid touching other areas or items such as your nose, currency, or videotape cassettes and then rubbing your eyes.

Wash hands frequently. Use paper towels and tissues instead of cloth, avoid eye makeup and wearing contact lenses until the infections has healed. If cloth towels are used by the person with pinkeye, place the towels in an area where no one else will use them, and wash all towels and linens in hot water.