Don’t use old medicine
“Don’t just grab any old bottle of eye drops out of your medicine cabinet when a new problem comes up. If you have an infection, steroid drops might make the redness look better, but the infection could get worse. I’ve had to remove people’s eyes because of that.”— Brian Bonanni, MD, an ophthalmologist at Gotham LASIK, New York City.
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