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See the related links section for images of dermatitis (skin inflammation and allergic dermatitis from poison ivy), and conjunctivitis ("pink eye", infection of the conjunctiva of the eye). See especially picture number 9 of the conjunctivitis for the redness, and several other pictures in this series show the swelling of the eyelid from the inflammatory response and some show the purulent drainage of an eye infection.

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