Our senses are very important because they allow us to see, hear, smell, taste, and touch so we can experience the life around us. The eye is the most important sensory organ. It is the organ of vision, and it is very sensitive. Therefore, we should protect our eyes from diseases; such as, macular edema, cataract, macular dry enteration, and red eye. We have all experienced red eye at least once in our life, affecting one or both eyes. That makes us wondering, what is Red eye? What can cause it? And how can we treat the causes?. Red eye is a cardinal sign of ocular inflammation. It occurs when the vessels in the eye become swollen or irritated. Red eye occurs as a consequence of blepharitis, dry eye syndrome, or conjunctivitis (med scape,2012).
First, Red eye occurs due to conjunctivitis disease. Conjunctivitis, which is usually called pink eye, is an infection or inflammation in the eye area. The effect of viruses, bacteria, and allergies, is pink eye disease. For example, Viral conjunctivitis is the result of infection from herpes simplex virus (HSV), varicella zoster virus (VZV), or human immune deficiency virus (HIV). It can be transfer from one person to another. In addition, Bacterial conjunctivitis has common causes including staphylococci, streptococci, gonococci, and Chlamydia. Also, Allergic conjunctivitis may be divided into five major subdivisions. They are Seasonal allergic conjunctivitis (SAC), perennial allergic conjunctivitis (PAC), Vernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC), atopic keratoconjunctivitis (AKC), and giant papillary conjunctivitis (GPC). There are a lot of inflammation causes; therefore, there are a lot of symptoms including redness in the white of the eye or internal eyelid, enlarged amount of tear...
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...er, it has several symptoms including Foreign-body sensation, itching, irritation, burning, and excessive tearing. You can protect your eyes from getting dry eye syndrome by preventing it from many risks, such as; dry, hot, or windy climates, high altitudes, air-conditioned rooms, and cigarette smoke (medscape, 2013).
To sum up, As a result of dry eye, pink eye, and blepharitis, red eye may occur. Red eye is a common disease that affects our ability to see. furthermore, there are many symptoms of dry eye, pink eye, and blepharitis; such as; redness in the white of the eye or internl eyelid, increased amount of tears, and Foreign-body sensation. Now you can prevent your eye from getting red eye by using lubricant eye drops, Washing your hands regularly, Adding tears, conserving tears, increasing tear production, and sometimes you will need the help of doctor.
The symptoms of eye contact come in two forms and at different times, ocular symptoms within 4 to 6 hours and corneal edema within 1 hour. Symptoms are as follows: pain, photophobia, blepharospasm, lacrimation, conjunctivitis, corneal lesions, blistering of the eyelids, and infections. Short term to long term effects that could occur is blindness though this may clear up with 10 days.
Conjunctivitis - Patient has conjunctival injection with clear watery discharge. The patient does not, however, present with typical eye crusting.
Allergic contact dermatitis: With this type of eczema certain areas of the skin become red, itchy and weepy. This happens when the skin comes in contact with a 'foreign' substance.
The authors uses the color red for symbolism. The quote, "From across the river the red eyes were still peering" (Kazin 56) represents fear and enemies. It show that there is blood and war relations across the river.
The red spot is easily diagnosed with an ophthalmoscope by a physician. The red spot is found in the retinal area and appears the color red due to gangliosides residing in the retina’s ganglion cells. The cherry red spot is the only normal portion of the retina due to choroidal circulation being shown by the red in the foveal region. This is a direct result of the retinal ganglion cells being pushed aside to increase visual perception. The cherry red spot shows up in contrast the remainder of the retina. Due to the excess ganglioside storage, the retinal neurons are now distended. The below picture shows an example of the cherry red spot in a TSD
Some signs and symptoms include the following: facial redness, swollen red bumps, persistent eye problems, and an enlarged nose. Rosacea generally causes a redness in the central zone of the face. Many of these same patients develop red bumps on their face that resemble acne, causing the skin to feel hot and tender to the touch. Around 50% of patients experience dry eyes, irritation and swollen red eyelids. In some rare cases, the nose may become enlarged because the rosacea begins to thicken on the area
Brian Wu, contributor of Medical News Today, wrote an article called “Red Eyes: List of common causes”, on March 4, 2017. Reviewed by Timothy J. Legg. This article is discuss about the red eyes can be the sign of a minor irritation or a serious medical condition, such as an infection. According to this article, the diagnosis of the red eye can occur when small blood vessels that are present on the surface of the eye become enlarged and congested with blood, and red-eyes happens due to an insufficient amount of oxygen being supplied to the cornea or the tissues covering the eye. Brain Wu, talks about five things in this article such as conjunctivitis, corneal ulcer, dry eye syndrome, subconjunctival hemorrhage, treatment.
If you ever had the chicken pox then you have the shingles virus. Shingles occurs when the varicella virus is awakening in the body. Signs of the shingles include tingling and a lot of pain also includes a blistering rash. Early symptoms of the shingles include fever and general weakness. Then a few days later you start to notice pink or red patches and rash like on one side of your body. The shingles often appears around the rib cage or waist. This is referred to as a shingles band or the shingles girdle. This can cover a wide area on one side of the body and it can be very painful if you wear tight clothing. Then there’s the ophthalmic shingles, it affects the nerve that controls the facial sensation and the movement in your face. This can appear around your eyes on the forehead and the nose. The symptoms for this are headaches, redness and swelling of the eyes, this can cause the eyes to have double vision or blurred vision. The rash that shingles develops is blisters with fluid inside them similar to chicken pox. New and new blisters continue to develop for a couple of days. It’s...
Many signs include a "white pupil," also known as leukocoria. Retinoblastoma can occur in either one or two eyes (Paul T. Finger, Pg. 1). This abnormal white pupillary reflex is sometimes referred to as a cat's eye reflex. Another sign of retinoblastoma is a crossed eye (Ambramson, Ch3). Leukocoria doesn't always end up as being retinoblastoma, it can even result in: congenital cataract, Toxocara canis, Coat's disease, and persistent hypertrophic primary vitreous (PHPV) (Finger, Pg.2). Retinoblastoma occurs when there's a mutation or deletion of the q14 band of chromosome 13 (Finger, Pg. 1). Symptoms can be painful if not treated quickly. Some include a red, painful eye, swelling of the surrounding eye, poor vision, dilated pupil, even extra fingers or toes, and retardation (Ambramson, Ch3).
In conclusion, my conclusion is that red eye only applies to eye structures with reflective surfaces, such as the simple eye. Compound eye structures are coned and have a layer of graphite, unable to reflect any light back but needing to absorb only direct light to produce a certain image.
Fluid circulating inside the front portion of the eye is produced by a structure called the ciliary body, which is located behind the iris. This fluid moves through the opening of the pupil, passes into the space between the iris and the cornea, and drains out of the eye through a tissue called the angle. With glaucoma, the passing of fluid through the angle is either reduced or suddenly stops, and amounts of fluid inside the eye increase. This high fluid pressure hurts the nerve fibers and the eye's optic nerve and causes blind spots. It may lead to blindness in some cases.
can block fluids from draining, increasing pressure in the eye. Early detection can lead to treatment that
Measles is a highly contagious disease. It is caused by an RNA virus that changes constantly. Measles symptoms usually include a bad cough, sneezing, runny nose, red eyes, sensitivity to light, and a very high fever. Red patches with white grain like centers appear along the gum line in the mouth two to four days after the first symptoms show. These patches are called Koplik spots because Henry Koplick first noticed them in 1896. The Spots are important to diagnose measles. A characteristic red rash in measles is red spots starting at the hairline and going down to the face, body, and limbs.
Bacterial Conjunctivitis, commonly known as “pink eye”, is one of the most well-known and treatable eye infections for both children and adults. The name was chosen because it is an inflammation of the conjunctiva. The conjunctiva is the clear membrane that covers the white part of the eye and lines the inner surface of the eyelids. It is commonly called “pink eye” because of the red color of the eye from irritation and was described as such.