YES and NO
YES, you can get pinkeye from a dog sitting on
your pillow if the dog is infected by bacterial conjunctivitis, if a dog is
having a bacterial conjunctivitis and it happen releases or wipe the mucus
discharge on your pillow, if it
sneezes you can easily get infected. Pinkeye
caused by bacteria is airborne, simply it is transmitted through air. The
pathogens causing pinkeye are bacteria and staph and strephcoccus which can
easily infect man.
No, if the dog is
having a viral conjunctivitis, as human and dog, a canine are not having same
body type, a dog infected by viral conjunctivitis cannot infect a man, even if the dog discharge mucus discharge, sneeze-out or cough-out on
the pillow, you cannot get infected but other dogs can get infected from viral
pinkeye, therefore you isolate your dogs from other dogs.
No, for allergic
conjunctivitis, a dog affected by an allergic conjunctivitis cannot transmit
any infections to other dogs nor to human, allergic pinkeye do not contain any
infection it is just irritation to the eye caused by the presence of allergens
in the eye, an allergen is any substance like fur, pollen grains, dust or
dander that causes the eye to swells and
be reddish,
Therefore you can only be infected with pinkeye from a dog if it is has a
bacterial infection, but how do you know the pinkeye is bacterial, if your dog
is having a bacterial a bacterial pinkeye, the discharge from the eye, is thick
and greenish or yellowish. A viral
pinkeye produce discharge but it is not thick or sticky, just watery discharge
like tears, an allergic pinkeye is also not contagious and you can easily
notice the symptoms, it has no sticky or thick greenish discharge,
look at the photo below and observe the difference
| bacterial pinkeye in dog |
| viral pinkeye in a dog |
