What is Similarity and Contagion?
Infectious conjunctivitis, also known as the outbreak of fire eye, is an acute infectious ophthalmitis. According to the causes of different infectious conjunctivitis, it can be divided into two types: bacterial conjunctivitis and viral conjunctivitis. The clinical symptoms are similar, but the prevalence and harm are mainly viral conjunctivitis. The disease can occur throughout the year and is more common in spring and summer.
Infectious conjunctivitis
- nickname
- Outbreak of fire eye
- TCM disease name
- Infectious conjunctivitis
- Common locations
- eye
- Common causes
- Bacterial, viral
- Common symptoms
- Hot eyes, burning, photophobia, red eyes, aching eyes, red and swollen eyelids, excessive cyanosis, and tears, accompanied by headache, fever, fatigue, and swollen lymph nodes in the ears
- Contagious
- Have
- way for spreading
- Contact infection,
- Infectious conjunctivitis, also known as the outbreak of fire eye, is an acute infectious ophthalmitis. According to the causes of different infectious conjunctivitis, it can be divided into two types: bacterial conjunctivitis and viral conjunctivitis. The clinical symptoms are similar, but the prevalence and harm are mainly viral conjunctivitis. The disease can occur throughout the year and is more common in spring and summer.
- Infectious conjunctivitis is an eye disease that is transmitted through contact, such as contact with towels, face washing equipment, faucets, doorknobs, pool water, and common toys used by patients. Therefore, infectious conjunctivitis is often widely spread in collective units such as kindergartens, schools, hospitals, and factories.
Infectious conjunctivitis usually develops in both eyes. In the early stage of the disease, the patients felt hot, burned, photophobia, red eyes, and aching eyes. The pain was like rolling into the sand, and then the eyelids were red and swollen. Afraid of light and tears, when you get up in the morning, your eyelids are often stuck by secretions, making it difficult to open.
Some patients have small bleeding spots or bleeding spots on the conjunctiva, and the secretions are mucopurulent. Sometimes a gray-white pseudomembrane is formed on the surface of the eyelid and conjunctiva. The edge of the cornea may have gray-white infiltration points, which can be severe with headache, fever, and fatigue. , Systemic symptoms such as anterior ear lymphadenopathy.
Infectious conjunctivitis generally does not affect vision. If a large amount of mucopurulent secretions adhere to the corneal surface, there may be temporary blurred vision or iris (a rainbow-like aperture in front of the eyes). Once the secretions are wiped away, the vision Just clear. If a bacterial or viral infection affects the cornea, photophobia, tears, and pain worsen, and vision also decreases to some extent.
During the treatment of infectious conjunctivitis, try to avoid contact with patients and their used items, such as face towels and washbasins. Try not to go to public places (such as swimming pools, theaters, shops, etc.).
Pay attention to disinfection and isolation (boiling disinfection) of personal items (such as towels, handkerchiefs, etc.) or public goods such as kindergartens, schools, barbers, and bathrooms.
Individuals should pay attention not to rub their eyes with dirty hands, cut their nails frequently, and wash their hands before and after meals. The affected eye should also be opened, and the affected eye cannot be covered, because after covering the affected eye, the eye secretions cannot be discharged, and at the same time, the local temperature and humidity of the eye are increased, which is conducive to the reproduction of bacteria or viruses and aggravates the disease.
- 1. Patients with conjunctivitis should not eat onions, chives, garlic, pepper, mutton, dog meat and other spicy, hot foods.
2. Do not use public towels and wash basins. The patient's towels, handkerchiefs and wash basins should be used separately, and boiled and disinfected after use to avoid reinfection.
3. Do not touch the eye drops and secretions of the eye drop bottle to avoid cross infection.
4. Brew, amaranth, coriander, elephant skin fish, shark, band fish, yellow croaker, eel, shrimp, crab and other fishy hairy substances, patients with conjunctivitis are advised not to eat.
5. Malantou, wolfberry leaves, loquat white, winter melon, bitter gourd, mung bean, chrysanthemum brain, banana, watermelon, etc. have heat-clearing, damp-wetting and detoxifying effects, and can be used as an adjunct to treat conjunctivitis.