Is vernal keratitis the most common symptom?

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Spring is coming, flowers are in full bloom, patients suffering from vernal keratoconjunctivitis to the hospital are more common. Vernal keratoconjunctivitis, also known as vernal catarrhal conjunctivitis, seasonal conjunctivitis, etc. It is a recurrent chronic ocular surface disease with environmental and racial tendencies. It mainly affects children and adolescents. It is more common in men under 20 years old. In serious cases, it damages cornea and affects vision. Is vernal keratitis the most common symptom? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

Is vernal keratitis the most common symptom?

The first is binocular disease. Most of the cases occurred in children and boys, with more males than females. There are seasonal, hot days in spring and summer, the disease worsens, cold days in winter to reduce, generally to experience 5-10 years. It's itchy. There were eosinophils in the mucinous filamentous secretion, and the IgE content in the tear increased significantly. There are two types of conjunctival damage (see chapter of conjunctival diseases for details).

Second, severe limbal conjunctivopathy can affect the cornea, causing semicircular opacity (pseudo senile ring) in the peripheral layer of the cornea and the superficial layer of the corneal parenchyma. In addition to the damage caused by this kind of conjunctival lesion affecting the cornea, there are two kinds of corneal changes caused by catarrh in spring: epithelial keratitis in spring: it mainly occurs in the upper part of the cornea, and there are scattered and small gray punctate opacity in the epithelium.

Third: fluorescein can be stained. In severe cases, the whole corneal surface seems to be dusted with powder. Ulcerative keratitis in spring: rare. It is characterized by a shield shaped shallow ulcer in the upper part of the cornea, often without blood vessels extending into the cornea, a gray white turbid base, slow progress, slow response to treatment, but eventually healed, forming turbid scars at the equivalent of the elastic layer.

matters needing attention

1. Pay attention to the care of eye local hygiene, do not touch with hands. Eat some light, digestible and nutritious food, such as lean pork, pig liver, rabbit meat, mutton, etc. Eat more fresh fruits, such as bananas, pears, apples, Hami melons, grapes, carambola, longan meat, etc. Should drink juice, clear juice, glucose, etc. 2. Avoid alcohol, avoid spicy products (Beijing onion, onion, leek, Polygonum Artemisia, mustard, etc.), avoid yellow croaker, eel, rubber fish, mandarin fish, eel, black fish, bream, crab, shrimp and other fishy hair, avoid warm spicy food, ginger warm.