Your child may return to school after eye drops ordered by the doctor are used for 24 hours. You think your child has pink eye. The doctor may want to examine your child. Eye drops may be prescribed. Pink eye sometimes is caused by a virus that also causes a fever and a sore throat.
Pink eye is a very common disease.
Your child's eyesight is not harmed by pink eye. Pink eye is easily spread from child to child, so if one child in your family has pink eye, the other children may get it soon. The white of your child's eye can also become red from chemicals in swimming pools, dust, or being allergic to substances. Pull lower lid down and away from eye. Drop medicine in pouch of lower lid.