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[dimitri31]

Anyone know how to say, "medicine for pink eye" in Korean?

I'm coming down with the initial symptoms. I just want to go to a pharmacy, pick up the medicine, let it do it's magic, and be done with it.

[tfunk]

분홍색 눈 의학에 대한

(according to Google translate)

[ryouga013]

I don't know, but I think a kid has it in one of my classes and wanted to play with me... I was kind of rude and simply said "you're sick, sit down." He is in one of the very low classes and I didn't know how to explain how contagious that stuff is and that him rubbing his eyes all the time and then trying to touch me was not making me happy.

[laogaiguk]

Went in for pink eye once. The nurse said, "yeah, that's pink eye. Drop your pants." I thought she was joking. She wasn't...

[yingwenlaoshi]

I always rub my eyes with my shirt.

[tfunk]

[laogaiguk]

[ds_fan]

fucking hate pink eye, its cloramphenacol your after, clears it right up after about 12 hours of use

[curlygirl]

눈병에 걸렸어요. 약을 주세요.
Nun pyongay kollyossoyo. Yagul juseyo.
I've caught an eye infection. Please give me some medicine.

Write down the hangeul script above and just hand it to the pharmacist if you're not confident with speaking.

[yingwenlaoshi]

[dimitri31]

[Bibbitybop]

I've heard of kids paying each other to transmit it as it gets them out of school work.

[Rutherford]

I had a class full of 3 year olds (Korean age). One of the kids had the worst pink eye I'd ever seen. He couldn't open it and it was leaking down his cheek. Halfway through the class he got up and came towards me while the co-babysitter was changing another kid's diaper or something. I got up and ran, which he found hilarious, and we did a couple laps around the table before he let up. Had to have a talk later in which my directors explained how that looked bad on CCTV and I explained the germ theory of disease.

[Chris Kwon]

[PGF]

My pink eye horror story:

last year, one of my kids gave me pink eye.

I went to the local GP. He said he could not treat it and that I needed and eye doctor.

I went to another GP (who spoke perfect english. He said you have viral pink eye and gave me allergy meds.

The allergy meds made the pink eye 10x WORSE.

I suffered. Then I had a free saturday.

I went to seoul to the international clinic. Dr. Kim looked at what I had been RX'd, said it was making it worse and gave me some meds that cleared it up quickly (two or three days).

The downer.....--> having pink eye for over a week changed the vision in my left eye and I had to get new glasses.


Bottom line is that you should go to a doctor trained somewhere other than Korea. Dr. Kim at the international clinic went to an AMA medical school in the states.

good luck