Drops Help Pink Eye in Kids, No Antibiotic Necessary?

[yakshi]

For children with pink eye, antibiotic eyedrops do not resolve symptoms significantly faster than eyedrops that do not have antimicrobial properties ― suggesting that lubrication alone may have a beneficial "washout effect," researchers in Finland have found.

[Kirti]

@yakshi Thirty children in the study received eyedrops containing the antibiotic moxifloxacin. They got better in 3.8 days on average. Twenty-seven children received placebo eyedrops, and they recovered in 4 days on average. The difference between the groups was not statistically significant, according to the researchers. Another group of 31 children received no intervention. Their symptoms resolved in 5.7 days on average. The difference between the moxifloxacin group and the no-treatment group (1.9 days) was statistically significant (P = .04), whereas the difference between the placebo group and the no-treatment group (1.7 days) was not (P = .10), the researchers found.