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A red, irritated eye can be easy to brush off, especially if it starts with the same gritty, watery, mildly uncomfortable feeling many people associate with pink eye symptoms. A person wakes up with one eye glued shut, assumes it is “just conjunctivitis,” buys drops, and waits a day or two. Sometimes that works out fine. Sometimes it does not, and what looked like a routine irritation turns into a more serious eye infection that needs prompt medical attention. That uncer