A 36-year-old with recurrent conjunctivitis

摘要

A 36-year-old man presented to our outpatient clinic with a sudden onset of opaque yellow-green discharge and redness in both eyes, with the left eye more involved than the right. On examination, the patient also had a small amount of similar discharge from his left medial tear duct. His visual acuity was not affected, and there was no pain associated with the symptoms. The patient does not wear contact lenses or glasses. The symptoms were exacerbated by a lack of sleep due to a newborn 2-week-old son and a 2-year-old daughter at home. The patient had experienced these symptoms before, and this was his fourth episode in about 3 months. In the previous episodes, moxifloxacin ophthalmic drops relieved the symptoms but sul-facetamide ophthalmic drops did not.