While many of the symptoms of infected eyes also appear with irritated eyes experiencing an allergic reaction, eye infections typically have extra symptoms that do not occur with allergic eye irritations. As such, both allergic eye irritations and eye infections often occur with symptoms like redness, itching, burning, and clear watery discharge. However, with eye infections, you often experience other symptoms such as pain or a gritty feeling in your eyes and thick or mucus-like discharge. With that said, the most telltale way to determine if your eye is merely irritated or if it is infected is whether or not you are experiencing any pain. If you are not experiencing any eye pain, it is most likely an allergic eye irritation and not an eye infection. At Columbia Clinic Urgent Care, we would be happy to provide expert treatment for either an eye infection or an allergic eye irritation! If you are looking for an eye infection specialist in Portland, Happy Value, or Tigard, Oregon, we welcome you to come to Columbia Clinic Urgent Care! You can either schedule an appointment through our website, by calling us, or by visiting the clinic nearest you for a walk-in appointment. Please visit our website for clinic locations and hours of operation.