What symptom does keratitis have?

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Eyes are very important for us. If we suffer from keratitis, the eyes will be very painful, there will be a lot of eye excrement, and the eyes will have itching symptoms. If we wear contact lenses for a long time, it will cause this disease. Most patients with keratitis have severe inflammatory symptoms, such as pain, shyness, tears and blepharospasm. This is due to the reflex orbicularis oculi muscle contraction and excessive tear secretion caused by inflammatory stimulation of the trigeminal nerve endings in the cornea. In order to reduce the harm of keratitis, effective treatment should be carried out in time.

What symptom does keratitis have?

Before the onset of keratitis often have a cold or fever history, or corneal abrasion, or fatigue. At the beginning, the corneal epithelium showed small dot opacity, mild ciliary congestion, photophobia and foreign body sensation. Then the appearance of keratitis can form small blisters, small blisters rupture quickly, and connect with each other, forming dendritic shallow ulcer, pain, photophobia, tears, blepharospasm and other symptoms.

Then there's corneal hypoesthesia. If this kind of ulcer does not develop to the surrounding and deep layer, it can be healed in a few days to a few weeks, leaving a little mark and turbidity, which has little effect on vision. The symptoms of keratitis worsen, and often secondary iridocyclitis, but usually without anterior chamber empyema, suggesting the possibility of bacterial mixed infection.

The harm of keratitis to eyeball is very serious, light affect vision, serious corneal perforation, loss of vision. Therefore, patients with keratitis should not be taken lightly, must be diagnosed accurately, active treatment, as far as possible to make the lesion stay in the shallow cornea.

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We should attach great importance to keratitis and not ignore it. Patients with abnormal eyes should go to the hospital for examination and treatment as soon as possible to avoid more and more serious keratitis, which may eventually lead to blindness.