Orbital Cellulitis

Infection and swelling of the soft tissues lining the eye socket, pushing the eyeball outwards and causing severe pain, redness, discharge of pus, and some degree of blurred vision; offending organisms are usually bacteria which have spread from the sinuses during Sinusitis or from Boils near the eye. Since there is a small risk of infection spreading to the meninges of the brain and causing Meningitis appropriate action is to consult your doctor if there is no improvement in 12 hours, or 2 hours if meningitis symptoms appear. Your medical doctor will probably prescribe an antibiotic, but if the rescue remedies listed below are given promptly they will have time to act before the antibiotic builds up sufficiently to antidote them.

Specific remedies to be taken every hour for up to 10 doses

• Lids swollen and full of fluid, eye burning and stinging, sudden piercing pains, yellow discharge Apis 30c
• Eye won't stop watering Rhus tox. 30c
• Extreme sensitivity to slightest draught or touch Hepar sulph. 30c

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