In a message dated 2001-11-02 9:44:45 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
[email protected] writes:


> what is cellulitis?

The "-itis" suffix always means inflamation of.  e.g. Rhinitis - inflamation 
of the nasal passage ways.  Cellulitis simply means inflamtion of the cells - 
can happen any time cells are injured - bruising, infection are common 
causes.  Pink eye is usually a staph aureus infection and if it spreads into 
the surrounding tissues then oral antibiotics are usually called for.  If it 
doesn't then antibiotic eye drops are usually sufficient - but as stated by 
others here and myself - CS eye drops are just as effective if not even more 
so.

Ian