What symptom does child keratitis have?

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Many people are not unfamiliar with keratitis, because there are many people who have suffered from this eye disease in life. After suffering from keratitis, of course, it will make the eyes feel uncomfortable, and there will be a series of inflammatory phenomena. So what are the symptoms of keratitis? Let's give you a detailed introduction.

What symptom does child keratitis have?

There are two types of keratitis, namely ulcerative keratitis and non ulcerative keratitis, which can be caused by many factors, such as corneal trauma, bacterial invasion, etc. once suffering from keratitis, patients will feel foreign body sensation in the eyes, as well as tingling or burning sensation. Eye performance will also appear congestion symptoms, patients will be afraid of light, tears symptoms, at the same time, there will be some secretions in the eyes, severe will appear visual disorders.

For ulcerative keratitis, it is generally caused by some external factors, such as infection with some pathogenic factors, which invade corneal epithelial cells, resulting in inflammation. For most keratitis, there are signs of intense inflammation, such as eye pain, fear of seeing bright things, tears and blepharospasm. At the same time, patients can appear ciliary congestion, or iris congestion phenomenon, severe can occur bulbar conjunctiva, even eyelid edema phenomenon.

Keratitis will affect vision, especially if inflammation invades the pupil area, corneal scar will be formed when ulcer healing occurs, which can block light from entering the eye, make the corneal surface curvature, and change the refractive power, so that the object can not focus into a clear image on the retina when viewing, resulting in low vision. Of course, the specific degree of vision affected depends on the location of the scar, if it is in the middle of the cornea, even if the scar is very small, it will have a great impact on vision.

matters needing attention

For keratitis is not timely treatment will affect the vision of patients, so to timely prevention and treatment, generally through hot compress, rinse the eyes, and then with some drugs to treat, such as atropine or some eye drops to treat, according to different keratitis different infection bacteria to choose the appropriate eye drops.