Can garlic oil treat pink eye?

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• Colleen

  01/14/2013

  Well, yes, garlic oil can be helpful for pink eyes. Nowadays, it is normal for many people to have pink eyes. And pink eye is an eye infection. When it occurs, it will just cause the white of the eye to turn red. Itching, watering eyes, swollen lids and a thick discharge can be possible too. So that can be dangerous. Generally speaking, garlic oil contain vitamin, so it can just be effective to treat pink eyes. Also, you can just intake more vitamin c, for vitamin C can help prevent additional inflammation in the eye. Anyway, just pay more attention to your eyes.

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• Christopher

  01/14/2013

  Garlic oil can reduce the inflammation, and it can resist bacterium. Pink eyes occur when our eyes get infected. So, you can see that garlic oil can help people to cure pink eyes. But, do not drop garlic oil into our eyes. That would make your eyes get more serious. Put garlic oil into your daily meal can help you resist even kill the bacterium as well. Then artificial tears should never be replaced.

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• Samuel rodney

  01/15/2013

  Yes, garlic oil work to treat pink eyes. Since pink eyes are caused by eye infection, and garlic is antibacterial and antiviral. So it will be very helpful if you try keepping eating raw garlic while you have pink eye and adding garlic to your diet, which will help your pink eyes clear up much quicker. What's more, using garlic poultice on your eyes can be helpful too.

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