Bacterial infections cause a rapid onset of conjunctiva redness, mucopurulent discharge, and swelling of the eyelids. The symptoms develop in one eye and then spread to the other in 2-5 days. These pus-producing bacteria cause irritations and a stringy, yellow-green discharge that causes the eyelids to stick together when a person sleeps. There may also be noticeable crusting of the infected eye and the skin that surrounds it.The itchiness is occasionally localized, causing people to think that they have foreign objects in their eyes. Acute bacterial infections can be extremely painful. Some bacteria such as chlamydia trachomatis often produce conjunctivitis symptoms without redness. The virus will clear out in a week or two, although antibiotics lessen the duration of infections.Next
