What is uveitis

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Uveitis is an ophthalmic disease, which has obvious influence on vision. It is uveitis caused by eye infection. It is easy for patients to feel tired and sour eyes. In order to understand this disease more specifically, let's talk about what is uveitis.

What is uveitis

First, uveitis refers to the inflammation of uvea, retinal vessels and vitreous body. At present, many people also call it intraocular inflammation. Endophthalmitis is usually diagnosed or highly suspected as bacterial or fungal infection. But some infectious factors, such as tuberculosis, syphilis, Toxoplasma caused by intraocular inflammation is known as uveitis. 　　

Second, uvea is rich in melanin related anti inflammation, retina and lens also contain a variety of anti inflammation activities, choroidal blood flow is rich and slow, a variety of systemic autoimmune diseases can affect the uvea. These characteristics make uveal vulnerable to autoimmune, infection, metabolism, blood, tumor and other factors, so uveal disease is a common disease, especially inflammatory disease is the most common, followed by tumor, in addition to congenital abnormalities, degenerative changes and other diseases. 　　

Third: uveitis is a kind of disease, which can be divided into granulomatous and non granulomatous uveitis. In the past, it was thought that granulomatous uveitis was mainly related to pathogen infection, not granulomatous uveitis and allergy. In fact, both infectious and non infectious factors can cause two types of inflammation, and some types of uveitis can sometimes show granulomatous and sometimes non granulomatous inflammation.

matters needing attention

The treatment of eye related diseases is usually more cautious, so it is best not to get uveitis, so there will be no danger, which also shows that in daily life should pay attention to eye hygiene, do not rub your eyes with your hands, in addition, when you use your eyes too much, you need to look far away to let your eyes rest.