What is optic neuritis

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Eyes are very important to everyone. If we accidentally suffer from optic neuritis, we will have a lot of pain in our life. Many people don't understand optic neuritis. Let's share what is optic neuritis?

What is optic neuritis

Analysis one, optic neuritis is optic nerve inflammation, according to the different parts of the disease, optic neuritis can be divided into two kinds: optic disc inflammation and optic neuritis after the ball. With optic neuritis, the patient's vision will be affected.

Analysis 2. Optic neuritis can cause vision loss, mostly monocular or binocular. The visual acuity began to decline rapidly, usually rapidly and seriously, and became completely blind within a few hours or days, but the electroretinogram was normal.

Analysis 3. Optic neuritis can cause visual field changes. Most patients have central scotoma or paracentral scotoma. The physiological blind spot does not expand. The peripheral visual field shrinks centripetally or has wedge-shaped defects. In severe cases, the central visual field can be completely lost.

matters needing attention

Patients with optic neuritis usually must pay attention to the eyes can not look directly at the sun, go out when you can wear sunglasses, the sun contains a lot of ultraviolet and infrared, if you look directly at the sun, vulnerable optic nerve and retina, make the disease worse.