I was victim to Acute Infectious Conjunctivitis. This is a nasty eye infection.
It makes your eyes produe these sharp needle like shards of tears and at night your eyes literally glue together.

We had problems with treatment for about a month.
Ocular antibiotics worked but for a short time. What we found with teh help of our Optomitrist was a combination of two OTC drugs cmbined with teh later on antibiotic.

Dimetapp antihistamine tablets and Visine.
Of all things.
The dimetapp dried up the mucuous membranes os the bacteria couldnt survive in the glucose/saline base solution and teh visine washed it all away andkeptthe bacteria off of eye itself.
It took four days and when iwent back there as no culture of it at all.

But to prevent damage they put me on ocular antibiotics.

What this sis hwoever make me more susceptable to Pink eye.

theer was a study done in denmark on the incidence of diabetics and AIC. and they found that 3.1 o fthose affected by it are diabetics and thats compare to the 2.3 percent that are " normal".
So the ocnclusion in denmark is: based on these findings and information gathered over the course of teh two years tsudy of diabetes journals, glucose readings etc:
diabetics and normal bg people will get it about the same. However in diabetics the situation ismore drastic because the bacteria thrive in a salt present but glucose based environment in the tear ducts.

If left untreated or mis treated this can lead to sever scarring of the conjunctiva or membrane ocvering the eye.

Also dont poke yourself with a mascara wand.. mascara wands carry minute matter and bacteria and that can also lead to it.
Instead they suggest getting the old fashioned style mascara with a brush and get replaceable disposible brushes.