Can conjunctivitis be applied with a hot towel?

Conjunctivitis is generally not recommended to use hot towels. Conjunctivitis is due to the patient's eyes by bacteria, viruses or other microbial infection factors, non-infectious factors caused by inflammation, different types of conjunctivitis treatment methods are different. For example, infectious acute or subacute bacterial conjunctivitis, trachoma, or part of the acute episode of conjunctivitis, generally do not recommend hot towels, hot compress may promote the spread of infection, and through hot towels will be infected. For allergic conjunctivitis, seasonal conjunctivitis and other immune factors-related conjunctivitis patients, most of the recommendations after cold compress way, can play an antipruritic, sedative, relieve symptoms.