About a week ago I had the beginnings of an eye infection. Normal conjunctivitis, I didn't really notice it. I just brought more eye drops with me when I went out. Probably the third or fourth time in my life that I've had one. Then the next day I went snowshoeing for about 3 hours. The day after that my eye infection went from 10 to 100. Easily the worst that I've ever had and a week later my eye is still pretty unhappy. It's under control, I've been to the doctor etc.
The only thing that makes any sense here is that the cold air dried my eyes out and made the eye infection much worse than it would have been otherwise. I did not wear goggles. It wasn't windy that day. It wasn't snowing much either.
Anyone else experienced anything like this?
I would think irritating the eyes with the cold/dry air is probably not going to help an eye infection. It could also be that while fighting off an infection that exercise is not always advised.