What are the symptoms of keratitis

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Keratitis this disease sometimes is ulcerative keratitis, of course, sometimes can be non ulcerative keratitis. There are many factors for the onset of this disease, which can be bacterial or viral infection of the cornea leading to inflammation, or corneal trauma. After the onset of this disease, the patient's eyes will feel pain, sometimes the eyes will have a burning feeling. At this time, patients will be very afraid of light, but also accompanied by conjunctival congestion and visual impairment and other symptoms. The patient's corneal secretions will increase significantly.

What are the symptoms of keratitis

At the early stage of keratitis, corneal tissue will produce different degrees of cell infiltration due to stimulation. At this time, there will be a lot of liquid in the corneal tissue, and the cornea will be much higher than the normal corneal surface. If it is viral keratitis will lead to corneal redness, there are some unknown secretions around the cornea.

At the beginning of the onset of keratitis, the sense of foreign body friction in the eyes is very strong. At this time, the eyes are stinging and burning. The patient's eyes will be red, and very afraid of light, will not consciously tears. Corneal edema is evident when the patient opens his eyes.

In the patient's cornea, there are some white or yellow infiltrating points, the cornea will be slightly raised, and there will be edema around, and there will be dendritic or banded turbid cornea. If not treated in time, the inflammation will further expand and eventually lead to corneal necrosis.

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When corneal necrosis occurs after keratitis without treatment, some white ulcers can be formed at this time, and the ulcers will gradually spread and eventually spread to the whole cornea. At this time, the patient's eyeball will have severe pain.