Wwyd? - Milwaukee,WI

I'd treat it all day. Hot compresses, medicine, etc. And then look it over at 5pm. Reevaluate. If it seems better, go. Bring the meds and keep treating it all night too. Keep everything sanitized.

I'd go. Just be conscious of what and who you touch. Bring rubbing alcohol, too so that you can disinfect things that you touch. Enjoy!!

If it was a child, I'd say stay home, because children aren't very good about staying clean and keeping their hands to themselves. But since it's you, I'd say go and follow your plan of keeping your distance and sanitizing like crazy.

My kids' doctor told us that once you're on the drops for a day you're fine. Since you'll have been on them for 12 hours by the time you go i think you can easily avoid touching things that other people touch. Get some antibactiral wipes and use stick them in your pocket and use constantly. Alcohol swabs in the first aid area of the drug store will do.

I'd say go-you're going to be outdoors-try to wear sunglasses and don't touch your eyes

GO!!! :) You'll have been on drops for 12 hours before leaving. Then, let's face it, you'll be there and awake for not many hours before bedtime. By the time you get up in the morning, your 24 hours will be up.

Please DO bring an extra pillowcase to change after this first morning...you don't want to reinfect yourself or your child. DO bring hand sanitizer and wash your hands, use a compress on your eye before leaving, etc.

Do NOT share this with other people at camp unless you really feel you need to. Some people you just mention pink eye and their eyes start twitching. Also, as someone else mentioned, this could be allergies acting up...

Have fun!!! :)

Wash your hands, use the drops, and go on your trip. It will be fine.

The drops are the same...want to know how I know?? Got prescriptions for our whole household once...the exact same drops for child and adult...we used two of the four bottles and I have kept the other two for next time (I know bad me...but they are like $80 a bottle!!) I assumed they would be different for the two.

Go and use your sanitizer...have a good time!!

Go, lot's of hand sanitizer, and no eye touching, and don't share your pillow.

Honestly, that's the only way someone else will get it, unless your me and then all I have to do is be in the same room as you lol.

I would go. Follow your plan to not touch anything and be very good about washing your hands. Should be fine.

Honestly-I would go. Short and sweet-but there it is. I am sure others will disagree :)

I'd go.

I would keep my eye clean and my hands washed at all times.

It might not be pink eye - but allergic pink eye - where your body is inundated with allergens and it comes out your eye! Either way - not fun.

Keep compresses on your eye to keep the swelling down. Make an appointment with an optometrist and see if it really is pink eye and that you are using the right medication...

I would go! Wash your hands, carry some hand sanitizer. Just be carfeful about what you touch and let the other leaders know why you are trying to keep your hands out of everything. most of all....have a blast! :)

Can you wait to go and drive there separately tomorrow first thing in the morning?

I'd go. It's different with grown adults as they know not to touch their eye with pink eye. Kids can't resist if it itches. So the chances of someone contracting it from you (unless you are digging in your eye), are very, very slim.

You'll be fine.
Go and have fun.

Definitely go! You will be so careful that I doubt you would infect anyone. :)

It's probably not pink eye, it's most likely an allergy to something that got in that eye during your sleep.

I also have dry eyes and often wake up this pus in one eye or the other. I use eye drops if I can't take a shower. Usually a shower will remove what every debris that is in the eye or the lashes and the scratchy stuff is gone and the pus and stuff is too.

You're fine to go. If you are still worried then don't rub your eye then touch other peoples faces.

While you can, keep a cool compress over your eyes.
It will really help cool the inflamed area and the red/pink will go away more quickly.
It's fine for you to go.
Besides washing your hands a lot, try to avoid touching your face.
Have fun!

Not sure if you will see this in time. But if it were me, I would get myself to the nearest "urgent care center" (walk-in clinic) immediately and get meds -- your child's old drops may not be adult-strength and you might even need something else like an ointment as well as drops. It might not even be pinkeye (though that seems likely). I would get my own, adult-strength meds and then go on the trip. It is not worth risking your vision to go on any trip without proper treatment, to me.

Other moms are going to see you there and will see that your eye is red, by the way; be aware that you might get some comments. But I think that if you are treating properly (which to me means, not self-treating but having seen a doctor), and you keep everything very clean and maybe even decline to prepare anything the kids touch (don't help with crafts or setting the table etc.) it would be OK.

If you have it ...is it possible that tomorrow your son will come down with it too? If that happens you really need to leave camp with him instantly. It would be unfair for him to stay there with pinkeye because it's so contagious and you can't expect a child his age to not touch his face and/or not touch another kid or stuff another kid would handle. To be frank, other moms are going to wonder just that when they see you have pinkeye -- "Will her son come down with it tomorrow?" -- I still would think you're OK to go, though.

You might want to check with the troop leader to see if there is a protocol you need to follow here. I bet they leave it to your judgment but it's possible that there are instructions for this kind of situation.

You are an adult. You know how to wash your hands and not touch your eye. That's really the reason kids need to stay home for 24 hours. They forget, touch their eye, don't always wash their hands thoroughly and touch things.

Go!!! And have fun!!!