Can COVID- 19 cause pink eye?

Question

Hello doctor,

I am a healthy person who recently fought off a case of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), and three days into the infection, I caught the pink eye too. Its been two weeks since the initial COVID-19 inspection, and I feel fine. Still, ten days into it, I got blood drawn from a laboratory for an unrelated thing (I wanted to check test levels). Everything came back fine, except my platelet count was 1,15,000 and my immature granulocytes were 5 %. I fasted for this test. Still, I was taking multiple doses of tablet Acetaminophen and tablet Naproxen. Considering my body had just fought two infections, I had taken both of these drugs for the past week leading up to the test and less than 24 hours before the test. Should I be concerned about those two numbers?

Answer 1

Hello,

Welcome to icliniq.com.

I read your query and can understand your concern.

Good to hear that you recovered from coronavirus disease without any complications. I am unsure if pink eyes were related to your ongoing COVID-19 infection or an incidental finding. Both are a possibility. In either case, it should not have much of consequences.

Coming to your blood reports (attchments removed to protect the patient's identity), platelet counts are on the lower side. However, some viral infections can reduce platelet counts during infection. The classic example is dengue infection. However, your platelet counts are not too low to be of concern. Therefore, we start worrying about them and begin regular monitoring only when the counts fall below 50k Or less.

Granulocytes being a little high could be due to recovering from infection. The absence of other counts being normal and lack of other symptoms should not be a cause of concern. It is clinically not significant.

I suggest you get the complete blood counts done after a week to ensure things are normal and to see the trend. Otherwise, not to worry at all.

I hope this helps. Take Care.