Patients infected with conjunctivitis an inflammation of the transparent membrane that lines the eyelid and eyeball continue to report at citys public and private health facilities in large numbers more than a week after the disease turned into a major outbreak .
Senior ophthalmologists linked the spread of the highly contagious eye disease to weather conditions that seemed to have worsened air quality poor hand hygiene and crowded housing system . The highly contagious disease seems to have affected young adults and children more because they have an increased frequency of social interaction .
The infections caused similar symptoms including eye redness irritation vision problem eye discharge and crusting of eyelids or eyelashes especially in the morning . The patient might take one to two weeks to recover. The infection leaves marks on the cornea that may take longer time to heal.
The situation is now improving in the city as people were gradually developing immunity against the illness. Dr Aziz Arian the head of the ophthalmology department at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre JPMC said that the germs couldnt survive very hot and very cold weather and thrived in highly humid conditions.
This year we have had less rainfall that has worsened airquality in the . city that usually has two outbreaks of the infection often occurred at the time of changing weather conditions often occurs at the . time of the outbreak often occurring at the times of changing circumstances .
The infection often occurs in the time, often occurring in the midterms of the . onset of the disease. It usually occurs at an outbreak of the midsection of the jennah PostGraduate Medical Centre. Dr Arian said. However, he believed that the symptoms of the illness was to be improving in an outbreak.
