**4. Conclusions**

Novel approaches are inculcated in the existing bacterial keratitis management to thwart the challenges in disease prognosis rate. Earlier topical antibiotics were the only options for treating bacterial keratitis and surgical management for fulminant keratitis.

*Alternative Treatment Approaches in Bacterial Keratitis DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.112624*

The topical antibiotics too have some limitations in terms of bioavailability despite having frequent administration. Novel drug delivery systems were explored to overcome the limitation of topical applications.

These alternative interventions including drug delivery contact lenses, drug repository contact lenses, microemulsions, bacteriophage, pack-CXL, intrastromal injections, etc., provide hope and feasible options for treating bacterial keratitis.

A corneal physician can decide on the various armamentarium tools in addition to intensive topical therapy in treating bacterial keratitis.
