Spring is a good time to enjoy flowers. However, ophthalmologists in major hospitals have found that the number of patients with this kind of ophthalmopathy has increased significantly in recent week. A 5-year-old girl actually has a sharp decline in vision due to flower appreciation. What is the matter? Why does flower appreciation cause vision decline?
Allergic conjunctivitis within one week
Patients increased from 5 to more than 30
'usually, patients with allergic conjunctivitis will encounter one or two cases in the outpatient department for half a day, which doubled today, with four or five cases. I mainly look at fundus diseases. Maybe other colleagues who look at keratopathy will encounter more of these patients. "Said the ophthalmologist of a hospital in Ningbo.
Most of these patients have been to the field outing and flower appreciation before the onset of the disease. The day before yesterday, a group of 20-year-old girls and their girlfriends drove to Ninghai to enjoy cauliflower. They were crazy and took pictures of meizhao in their circle of friends. When she went home at 5 or 6 in the evening, she found her eyes were 'tragic'. Her eyes were itchy. She rubbed them with her hands for a while. When she looked in the mirror, her eyes were red.
Early in the morning, she immediately went to the hospital for treatment. The doctor combined the examination and the destination before the onset of the disease, and confirmed that it was allergic conjunctivitis. The most likely allergen was pollen.
Catarrhal conjunctivitis in spring
Cause visual impairment
Doctors said that allergic conjunctivitis timely regular treatment, generally will not affect vision, but there are individual cases.
Two years ago, a 5-year-old girl suffered from 'spring catarrhal conjunctivitis' and did not receive regular treatment for a long time. Her left eye developed into corneal ulcer. At last, she was able to control the disease through corneal transplantation. Her left naked vision recovered from 0.04 to 0.4.
The girl's hometown is Anhui, her parents work in Ningbo, and she lives with her grandparents since childhood. There is a farm near the girl's home. There are a lot of rape plants. Every year when the flowers bloom, the children will play hide and seek in the rape flowers.
Later, parents sent their children to Ningbo primary school. The careful mother found that the child always rubs his eyes with his hands. His eyes are red and red. He often blinks and tears. After examination, the diagnosis of catarrhal conjunctivitis in spring was confirmed. Due to no regular treatment, the vision of the left eye has been damaged, and the naked vision is only 0.04. Finally, through corneal transplantation, the naked vision of the left eye can be restored to 0.4.
The doctor said that catarrhal conjunctivitis in spring is a kind of allergic conjunctivitis. Every year, when it comes on in spring, the symptoms will be relieved or even disappear in winter. The allergens causing the disease are various kinds of plant pollen, animal fur, feathers, etc. The disease is often found in children and adolescents with allergic constitution.
People with allergic constitution should try their best
Keep away from pollen and other allergens
Spring is the season of frequent allergic conjunctivitis, try to stay away from the allergens, especially for the people with allergic constitution.
Go out to enjoy the flowers, don't rub your eyes with the hands that have touched the pollen. Parents must remind their children to wash their hands frequently.
If there are itchy eyes, tears, photophobia and other symptoms, do not rub your eyes with your hands! Frequent rubbing of your eyes will scratch the corneal epithelium, resulting in corneal epithelium falling off, and even affect your vision. Once the above symptoms appear, you should go to the nearest ophthalmic hospital in time.
If the eyes are uncomfortable, it is not recommended to purchase eyedrops at the drugstore. Because if you are suffering from allergic conjunctivitis, ordinary anti-inflammatory eyedrops have no effect at all, even because long-term wrong treatment will lead to other eye diseases.