Eye Infections: Prevention And Control Measures
Eye care specialists are committed towards protecting patient’s eyes as well as staff. Instruments which are used to treat patients are disinfected first to prevent infection from spreading. Infections are spread in a number of ways - from staff to patient, from patient to staff, by direct contact or by contaminated instruments. It is sometimes also spread through air. There are number of ways to prevent infection from spreading. Some of them are: Disinfection: Disinfection is nothing but disabling pathogenic microbes. It is done by chemical method or heat and water. However this technique is ineffective on bacterial endospore, fungi and protozoa. Eye Cleaning: Cleaning is nothing but the removal of foreign materials with water along with detergents...