De standaard 'Het rode oog' (eerste herziening) van het Nederlands Huisartsen Genootschap; reactie vanuit de huisartsgeneeskunde

- The revised version of the practice guideline ‘The red eye’ of the Dutch College of General Practitioners gives the general practitioner useful information on new insights into diagnosis and therapy for a red eye. An important therapeutic advice is prescribing chloramphenicol ointment instead of fusidic acid ointment in the case of bacterial conjunctivitis after one-week treatment without positive results, since 80 of the conjunctivitis causing bacteria does not react to fusidic acid. A slit lamp is helpful in the diagnosis of a case of red eye, but is not present in every general practitioner’s office. Joint efforts of a group of general practitioners in obtaining such a slit lamp may reinforce the diagnosis in general practice.

Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2007;151:1217-8