“Can antibiotic eye drops treat corneal injury?”
I'm 32 years old and I scratched my cornea. My doctor has given me antibiotic eye drops to help my injury heal. How does this work?
10 Answers
Using antibiotic drops on a corneal injury can help reduce the risk of infection.
Your cornea will heal on its own. The antibiotic drops protect your eye from getting an infection as it heals.
Sometimes scratches on the eye or corneal abrasions run the risk of becoming infected and need prophylactic antibiotics while other times we need them because the scratch is already infected.
The purpose of the antibiotic eyedrops is to help prevent corneal ulceration from a bacteria that might have been on the object that caused your corneal injury. The antibiotic eyedrops do not make your cornea heal faster, but they will prevent infections such as corneal ulceration’s while your eye itself is undergoing the healing process.
Prevents infection while healing.
The antibiotic prevents infection while you heal.
Jeffrey D. Gold, MD
Jeffrey D. Gold, MD
It is only to prevent infection while your body heals the injury.
It does not help heal the eye the eye heals on its own. The drops prevent infection while it heals
The antibiotic drop does not help the injury heal. Your body heals the injury. The antibiotic is to prevent infection which might occur due to a breach in the eye's defense mechanism.
Use an antibiotic to prevent infection. Cornea will heal by itself.
