Conjunctivitis

A large portion of patients applying to the eye clinics are patients suffering from conjunctivitis. Conjunctivitis is an inflammation of the eye\udconjunctival layer, and bacterial, viral, chlamydial, neonatal conjunctivitis, allergic conjunctivitis, giant papillary conjunctivitis, and irritative\udconjunctivitis are recognized. The purpose of this paper is to give basic information about conjunctivitis which is an inflammatory disease of\udthe anterior segment and one of the causes of red eye, to illustrate its characteristics and symptoms as well as the laboratory tests used in the\uddifferential diagnosis, and to describe the types of treatments that are to be used. (Turk J Ophthalmol 2012; 42: Supplement 48-51