What is scleritis

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Suffering from scleritis, there will be redness, eye pain and other obvious symptoms, timely control of infection, help to reduce the harm of the disease. Let's see what is scleritis.

What is scleritis

First of all, scleritis is an infectious disease of sclera, which is characterized by redness and vision loss as initial symptoms and severe eye pain. Also known as deep scleritis. It is less common than episcleritis. Understanding the main characteristics of the disease is helpful for timely detection and effective treatment.

Second, the disease is acute, often accompanied by corneal and uveitis, poor prognosis. According to the location of the disease, it can be divided into anterior scleritis and posterior scleritis.

Finally: it is mainly caused by endogenous antigen antibody immune complex, which is common in connective tissue diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, Wegener granuloma, relapsing polychondritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, Reiter's disease, etc. it can also be seen in herpes zoster virus infection, syphilis, gout or after eye surgery.

matters needing attention

Scleritis daily no special attention, in the discovery of the disease, timely treatment, and do not eye fatigue, excessive use of the eye, while avoiding stimulating diet, rehabilitation is not very difficult.