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What Causes Swelling In Eyes?
Question: my eye keeps swelling, I have been to a medical doctor and he said he didn't know why but he gave me blood pressure pills to take and told me to see and eye doctor. I have been to a eye dr and he said my tear ducts were small, but everything was fine. Maybe in the future some one may be able to find out why it keeps swelling. Do you have any suggestion?
Brief Answer:
It requires evaluation and I need more details.
Detailed Answer:
Hello
Welcome to health care magic.
I am Dr. Dadapeer K, an ophthalmologist and I answer health problems related to eye.
I reviewed your history.
It seems from the history that you are having recurrent swelling of the eyelids.
Recurrent painful swelling of the eyelids can be because of inflammation of the glands of the eyelids.
Recurrent painless swelling mainly in the morning as you wake up can be because of systemic conditions like anemia, high blood pressure....
Recurrent constantpainless swelling can be seen in eye conditions like blepharitis, dry eye....
Hence I need few more details like
Whether swelling is
painful or painless?
Generalized or localized?
Constant through out the day or keeps varying?
Duration of swelling?
Do continue the drugs and eye drops prescribed by your doctor. And get back to me with answers for above questions so that I can answer your question more accurately.
Hope the information is helpful to you.
Thank you
With regards
It requires evaluation and I need more details.
Detailed Answer:
Hello
Welcome to health care magic.
I am Dr. Dadapeer K, an ophthalmologist and I answer health problems related to eye.
I reviewed your history.
It seems from the history that you are having recurrent swelling of the eyelids.
Recurrent painful swelling of the eyelids can be because of inflammation of the glands of the eyelids.
Recurrent painless swelling mainly in the morning as you wake up can be because of systemic conditions like anemia, high blood pressure....
Recurrent constantpainless swelling can be seen in eye conditions like blepharitis, dry eye....
Hence I need few more details like
Whether swelling is
painful or painless?
Generalized or localized?
Constant through out the day or keeps varying?
Duration of swelling?
Do continue the drugs and eye drops prescribed by your doctor. And get back to me with answers for above questions so that I can answer your question more accurately.
Hope the information is helpful to you.
Thank you
With regards
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
The swelling hurts sometimes and sometimes it doesn't. But most of the time it doesn't hurt.
Localized
Constant through out the day.
Most morning it's regular eye, as I start moving around it start swelling then it stay. So I have a regular eye and a small eye.
I had XXXXXXX pozzi once and it caused it to do that but medical doctor say it's not that.
Localized
Constant through out the day.
Most morning it's regular eye, as I start moving around it start swelling then it stay. So I have a regular eye and a small eye.
I had XXXXXXX pozzi once and it caused it to do that but medical doctor say it's not that.
Brief Answer:
It is probably because of dry eye or blepharitis.
Detailed Answer:
Hello
Thank you for the follow up question.
Since the swelling can is localized, not painful and is not present in the morning, this rules out systemic causes like anemia, high blood pressure.
It is most probably because of chronic conditions like dry eye or blepharitis.
I would like to treat conditions like this with artificial tears and antiinflammatory eye drops like flurbiprofen eye drops.
Do continue eye drops prescribed by your doctor and discuss with him regarding need for antiinflammatory eye drops.
Hope the information is helpful to you.
Do write back to me for further questions.
Thank you
With regards
It is probably because of dry eye or blepharitis.
Detailed Answer:
Hello
Thank you for the follow up question.
Since the swelling can is localized, not painful and is not present in the morning, this rules out systemic causes like anemia, high blood pressure.
It is most probably because of chronic conditions like dry eye or blepharitis.
I would like to treat conditions like this with artificial tears and antiinflammatory eye drops like flurbiprofen eye drops.
Do continue eye drops prescribed by your doctor and discuss with him regarding need for antiinflammatory eye drops.
Hope the information is helpful to you.
Do write back to me for further questions.
Thank you
With regards
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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