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Suggest Treatment For Sore And Red Eyes With Swollen Eyelids
Question: I have sore,red,gritty left eye. It has been treated with anti allergy drops and antibiotics with no improvement.
It feels as if there is "something in it".ithas been like this for a week. The eye lids are slightly swollen. It is weeping slightly, and has been all week.
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It feels as if there is "something in it".ithas been like this for a week. The eye lids are slightly swollen. It is weeping slightly, and has been all week.
XXXX
Brief Answer:
Thorough slit lamp examination required.
Detailed Answer:
Welcome to HealthcareMagic.com
The symptoms you have described here are typically referred to as ' Painful Red Eye'.
There is a long list of differential diagnosis for such symptoms and we need to rule them out one by one.
For doing so you need a thorough ophthalmic examination by a qualified ophthalmologist.
The probable diagnosis could be a foreign body in your eye which is causing redness , lacrimation, grittiness and lid oedema. You need a Anterior segment slit lamp examination followed by removal of the foreign body under local anesthesia.
The second probable diagnosis could a form of conjunctivitis. Then we need to get an appropriate antibacterial, antifungal or antiviral cover.
An episode of Anterior Uveitis can present similarly and a through examination can rule that out.
Kindly visit an ophthalmologist at the earliest and please get back to us if you have any further query.
Hoping for a speedy recovery.
Regards,
Thorough slit lamp examination required.
Detailed Answer:
Welcome to HealthcareMagic.com
The symptoms you have described here are typically referred to as ' Painful Red Eye'.
There is a long list of differential diagnosis for such symptoms and we need to rule them out one by one.
For doing so you need a thorough ophthalmic examination by a qualified ophthalmologist.
The probable diagnosis could be a foreign body in your eye which is causing redness , lacrimation, grittiness and lid oedema. You need a Anterior segment slit lamp examination followed by removal of the foreign body under local anesthesia.
The second probable diagnosis could a form of conjunctivitis. Then we need to get an appropriate antibacterial, antifungal or antiviral cover.
An episode of Anterior Uveitis can present similarly and a through examination can rule that out.
Kindly visit an ophthalmologist at the earliest and please get back to us if you have any further query.
Hoping for a speedy recovery.
Regards,
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