If someone has glaucoma, is it more serious if they catch an infection like pink eye (conjunctivitis)?

Question

i was just wondering...

Answer 1

glaucoma is never a disease of the optic nerve but the optic nerve can be affected by it

there is no relation to pink eye and glaucoma

Answer 2

No.  Glaucoma is a disease of the optic nerve, which is inside and at the back of your eye.  Pink eye or viral conjunctivitis is usually limited to the front exterior portion of your eye.

Answer 3

When one has glaucoma, the pressure in the eye is too high for that eye's nerve. The nerve becomes damaged and then there's a retrograde damage to the retinal nerve ganglion cells.

In lowering the pressure for glaucoma, which supposedly helps protect from the vision loss or slows the rate of vision loss, different types of drops are used. Some increase the outflow of aqueous, some decrease the inflow or production of aqueous, some do both. But all of these strong drops change the outer surface ocular environment or the physiology of the eye surface and tear film.  

This changes the way you react to different types of surface infections or insults. A conjunctivitis caused by a virus such as adenovirus which is the cause of 'pink eye', won't be affected by the glaucoma but the drops used for the glaucoma can lower the resistance of the ocular surface to the insult.

So the glaucoma doesn't make things worse, but the Rx may make it harder to get well or heal from, or react to the virus or infection. It depends on the person's eyes, his constitution (diabetic too?), the type of infection...viral, bacterial, chemical induced weakness, etc...

Answer 4

no pink eye doesnt mess with it

it will go away