Symptom classification of dry eye in traditional Chinese Medicine

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With the increasing popularity of electronic technology in modern society, many people do not pay much attention to protecting their eyes. For those who have been engaged in computer work for a long time, they are tired or do not pay attention to eye hygiene. In this way, they will suffer from some eye diseases, among which dry eye is one. Patients with dry eye disease in life is more common, in fact, dry eye disease can be divided into many types, the following is to introduce dry eye disease is mainly divided into several types.

Symptom classification of dry eye in traditional Chinese Medicine

Dry eye syndrome. In recent years, it has been found that it may be due to innate immune system abnormalities, immune response caused by acquired antigen stimulation. The main manifestations were keratoconjunctivitis sicca, xerostomia and connective tissue disease. The most common is rheumatoid arthritis.

Xerosis of conjunctiva epithelium. This is one of the ocular manifestations of vitamin A deficiency. During the treatment, artificial tears should be used to make up for the insufficient secretion of tears, or the lower lacrimal dots (the entrance of lacrimal passage) should be closed by surgery, so as to reduce the amount of drainage of tears into the lacrimal passage, so as to achieve the purpose of alleviating dry eye.

Solid conjunctival xerophthalmia. This disease is mainly caused by long-term wind, sand, dust, lampblack stimulation, or staring at the computer screen for a long time, wearing contact lenses may also form this disease. It destroyed the secretory gland of conjunctiva itself, and also injured lacrimal gland and lacrimal duct to form dry eye.

matters needing attention

In our daily life, we should also do a good job in the prevention and protection of our eyes. We should pay attention to the maintenance of our eyes, so as to avoid suffering from eye diseases, bring inconvenience to our life, and make eye diseases far away from us.