The red was described as not being in the eyes but around the eyes, like eye shadow
You may think this is crazy, but last time in grocery store, saw a guy who looked similar to Alex Jones. He looked perfectly fine. No sweat. No redness. Then he passed me by 10 minutes later. His forehead was now sweating and his eyes were glazed red. Crazy, right ? And it was not the bloodshot vein look. It was around or like a glaze over the whole eyeball. You probably have to be real sensitive to colors to see it early on. When it first appears.
That sounds like the effect that makeup artists use in the movies to make the actor look very ill, eyes rimmed in red.