Pathological disease, popularly known as an eyesore, is called eye leukoma. The disease is expressed in clouding of the cornea. Belmo can be a congenital pathology, it can manifest itself as a result of various inflammatory processes, after an injury.
What is a leukoma?
On the human eye, a thorn can appear both in the form of small spots and in the form of a large obvious formation. In the case when such opacity is located in the central part of the eye, the patient may experience a significant decrease in visual acuity.
In fact, these changes are scars. In some cases, leukoma can occupy the entire central part of the eyeball.
With a partial manifestation of leukoma, the development of astigmatism is not excluded, and color perception and vision are distorted the more the disease is more pronounced.
What are the symptoms of an eyesore in humans?
Symptoms of the disease
Leukoma can be diagnosed by the following characteristic symptoms:
- A formation appears that has a convex shape and a rough surface.
- Over time, the cloudy color becomes whitish-porcelain.
- The resulting veil greatly complicates the normal perception of objects and images.
- The patient notes the formation of fog before the eyes. The intensity and density of the fog is completely dependent on the stage at which the pathology is located, the degree of its severity.
- Significantly reduced overall patient vision quality.
In some cases, the diagnosis of walleye by visual inspection is not possible. In this case, it becomes necessary to use a special ophthalmic lamp.
This tool allows you to determine where the walleye is located, to clarify its size. Most often, the ophthalmologist is also able to determine the depth of the cornea lesion.
The initial stages of development of an eyesore are characterized by a small size of the formation. Diagnosis in such cases is significantly difficult.
It is worth noting that the patient in such cases does not notice and does not notice defects and visual disorders. However, at the time of the appearance of such specific signs of leukoma, most often, it is already at the stage when treatment becomes difficult.
Causes of eye leukoma
A typical cause of an eyesore is pathological processes that spread to the cornea, in particular, to its deep layers.
Such factors and diseases are capable of causing such a violation, such as:
- Trachoma of the eye.
- Keratitis of any origin. As a result of keratitis, the cornea is damaged, provoking the formation of scar tissue.
- Probable consequences of any injuries suffered. This also includes injuries sustained during surgery.
- Lack of adequate and timely treatment for any ophthalmic defects. In this case, the walleye can be of considerable size.
- Any failed eye surgery. The disease in this case does not matter.
- The process of thinning the cornea of the eye.
- Any chemical burn, including acid or alkali.
- Formations of ulcerative nature on the surface of the cornea.
- Significantly increased pressure inside the eye.
Chemical burn
The cause of an eyesore should be identified by a doctor.
If it appeared as a result of a chemical burn with alkali, its treatment or removal in most cases is impossible. This is due to the fact that such substances rapidly penetrate into the deep layers of the cornea. It is very difficult to remove scar tissue in such layers, even if modern ophthalmic equipment is used.
It should be noted that the congenital form of eye leukoma is extremely rare. The reason for its appearance is a genetic predisposition. Treatment of a congenital form of an eyesore in a person (pictured above) is possible if the disease was diagnosed at the earliest stages.
Types of eye leukoma
Leukoma of the eye is divided into acquired and congenital. Most of the leukomas encountered are acquired.
The cause of acquired leukoma is most often diagnosed with ease. However, congenital eye leukoma is extremely difficult to predict.
Modern medicine believes that congenital leukoma appears as a result of negative factors affecting the fetus during development inside the womb.
For example, such a violation can be triggered by viruses or bacteria that entered the mother's body during pregnancy.
The etymology of the disease does not affect the form of manifestation of leukoma. In both cases, the thorn may look like small spots, or it may have the form of an obvious education and turbidity.
How to treat an eyesore?
Therapy for eye leukoma
The adequacy of eye leukoma therapy depends entirely on the timely and correct diagnosis of the disease. Only after a complete examination, the ophthalmologist is able to prescribe a course of therapy that will be most effective.
Completely neglect the treatment of walleye is unacceptable. It is important to understand that if left untreated, the disease will progress, resulting in the development of complete blindness in the patient.
Most often, the most effective way to treat leukoma of the eye is to perform surgery, which involves corneal plastic surgery.
Is it possible to cure an eyesore, I wondermany.
The prognosis for the treatment of the disease in the initial stages is very favorable, most often specialists manage to completely eliminate the thorn. The patient's visual acuity does not suffer at all.
Operation
With complete, extensive clouding affecting the deeper layers, an operation to transplant the cornea taken from a donor may be required. Such a procedure can be partial or complete. With a partial transplant, only those parts of the cornea in which the pathology has arisen are removed and replaced. A complete transplant implies a complete replacement of the entire element.
An alternative type of surgical therapy is the transplantation of the endothelium of the cornea and its inner layer.
Vision in this case can be restored completely or partially - it all depends on the degree of damage to the disease.
Most often this is ineffective, but the only way to treat if the thorn has appeared as a result of a chemical burn. The operation allows the patient to restore partial vision and eliminate symptoms in the form of lacrimation and fear of bright light.
After surgery, treatment lasts an average of 10-12 days and involves taking medication. At this time, the patient is supposed to avoid physical exertion, stressful situations, exposure to the operated eye of the sun and other sources of ultraviolet radiation.
If these measures are observed, the donor material takes root faster and better, the probability of its rejection as a foreign one is practically excludedbody.
It should be noted that with a timely visit to the doctor, when the disease is at the stage of minor turbidity, the operation can be avoided altogether. Treatment will most likely be medical.
However, such measures can stop or significantly slow down the development of leukoma. Accordingly, for many patients, the operation is a matter of time.
What else is used in the treatment of an eyesore?
Folk Therapy
The use of folk methods of treating eye leukoma is acceptable in some cases when the disease is at the primary stage of development. But it is worth remembering that traditional medicine should be used with caution, in combination with traditional treatment, and only after consulting a doctor. It is important to understand that the main task is not to harm yourself, not to aggravate the course of the disease.
If the attending physician does not mind, then you can use one of the following alternative methods of treating leukoma:
- The affected organ of vision must be washed with a solution based on sea s alt.
- Regular visits to the sauna or bath. High humidity and high temperatures in steam rooms can have a positive effect on the somorassorption of pathological formations.
- Daily use of a decoction of the herb eyebright. The broth must be prepared according to the following recipe: you need to take dried eyebright in the amount of two tablespoons, pour boiling water over it (one glass) and bring to readinessboiling on fire for five minutes. The decoction should be taken throughout the day. Portions are any, acceptable for each specific person. It is important that every day the broth should be fresh.
- Daily instillation into the eyes of a solution prepared on the basis of Siberian fir oleoresin. Specific dosages used during the course of treatment can be found in consultation with your doctor. It is important to consider that such therapy can cause profuse tearing, severe burning and pain in the eyes.
Caution during treatment
When using folk remedies, care must be taken and be aware that some remedies that are effective for one patient may not benefit another patient with the same ailment. It depends on the degree of the disease, its form, on the susceptibility of each person to a particular remedy, on the individual characteristics of the organism.
The use of traditional medicine methods requires a mandatory preliminary consultation with a competent ophthalmologist.
We looked at the causes of an eyesore in humans and its treatment.
