Symptoms and treatment of trachoma?

summary

Trachoma is a common ophthalmic disease in our life. It is a kind of chronic infectious conjunctival keratitis caused by Chlamydia trachomatis. It is also called trachoma because it forms rough and uneven on the surface of eyelid conjunctiva and looks like sand particles. Trachoma often occurs in children and adolescence. In the early pathological process, conjunctival infiltration, such as nipple and follicular hyperplasia, is accompanied by corneal pannus; In the late stage, because of the scar of the affected eyelid conjunctiva, it will cause the eyelid entropion deformity, aggravate the damage to the cornea, can seriously affect our vision, and even cause blindness.

Symptoms and treatment of trachoma?

Trachoma is mostly acute. When it comes on, we will feel something in our eyes, which is very uncomfortable. For example, some granular things stay between the eyes and eyelids, but they can't be rubbed out; At the same time to see the light will have a tingling feeling, can not help tears, always feel that there is a lot of mucus or mucus around the eyes.

A few weeks after the onset of the disease, the acute symptoms will gradually subside and enter the chronic phase. At this time, we have no discomfort, or we just feel that our eyes are easily tired and can't see the big things or things, so we will feel astringent and uncomfortable. If we are cured or self-healing at this time, we can leave no scar.

When suffering from trachoma or inclusion body conjunctivitis, we can drop some eye drops, such as rifampicin, sodium sulfacetamide eye drops, and so on. At night, we can use some tetracycline ointment to make our eyes more comfortable. It's better to go to the hospital and listen to the doctor's advice

matters needing attention

Trachoma will be different because of the severity of infection and whether repeated infection. Mild or no recurrent infection, a few months can be cured, and severe patients with recurrent infection, the course of disease can linger for several years to more than ten years, and finally extensive scar is no longer infectious, but there are serious complications and sequelae, often leading to vision loss, or even blindness.