Uveitis
Disease information
Uveitis
Uveitis
.
Inflammation of the weaves that maintain the rainbow (the weave ring colored around the pupil of the eye) conforming the previous camera of the eye (between the
cornea
and the crystalline)
It can be confused with the conjuntivitis. Age Affects both sexes, mainly between the 20 and 60 years.
Prognosis.
In general the vision by means of
a
fast treatment can be conserved.
Complications.
Glaucoma
.
Cataracts.
Permanent partial loss of the vision.
Diagnosis and treatment.
DIAGNOSIS:
File and physical examination by
a
doctor
(ophtalmologist)
Analysis of blood.
TREATMENT:
Doctor
, preferably by an ophtalmologist.
General measures.
Until the treatment
has
been completed, it takes dark
glasses
, even in interiors.
Medication.
His ophtalmologist can prescribe to him:
Ocular drops (midriáticas) that expand the pupil and prevent the scars. It is possible that it must use them during long time. Ask his
doctor
how to put them correctly to it.
Oral drugs with corticoids or ocular drops with these, to reduce the inflammation. Speak with his
doctor
of the indirect effect of drugs with corticoids.
Activity
.
Remain in bed until they send the symptoms (of 1 to 2 weeks)
Diet.
There is no special diet.
Warn its medico if.
It experiences any
change
in the vision.
They appear inexplicable new symptoms. The drugs used in this treatment can produce indirect effect.
Factors of risk.
In the forms without
infection
:
Reumatoide
arthritis
.
Ulcerosa
Colitis
.
Prevention.
For the inflammatory ones there is no prevention.
For the
infectious
ones, the precocious prevention and treatment of the corresponding
infection
.
Causes.
Infection
that extends to the eye from other parts of the body.
Most
common
they include:
Toxoplasmosis.
Tuberculosis
.
Histoplasmosis.
Sífilis.
Viral.
Inflammations without
infection
, like:
Sarcoidosis.
Hurt in the eye.
Reactions autoinmunes.
Disease
of Reiter.
Syndrome
of Behçet.
In many cases, strangers.
Signs and symptoms.
Acute
Uveitis
or of sudden appearance:
Severe ocular pain.
Fotofobia (sensitivity to the light)
Reddening of the eye.
Sometimes, smaller pupil in the affected eye.
Lagrimeo.
Blurred vision.
Off - white deposit in the zone more declivity of the previous camera (pus)
Uveitis
of gradual appearance:
Ocular pain.
Fotofobia.
Floating spots in the field of vision.
Blurred vision.
Off - white deposit in the zone more declivity of the previous camera (pus)
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