We understand normal, but what about abnormal? For "trichiasis", you can take a look at the simple description of the image, eyelashes trichiasis. Trichiasis is a common eye disease, which is common in children, adolescents and middle-aged and elderly people. Eyes are fragile and delicate, and the slightest stimulus can leave tears on them. Although the eyelashes are small, how can unintentional stimulation and touch not make people feel uncomfortable? Eyelashes with abnormal growth direction, especially those growing backward to the corneal surface, not only often rub the corneal epithelium, causing foreign body sensation, fear of light, tears and other symptoms, but also cause eyeball congestion, conjunctivitis, corneal epithelial shedding, keratitis, corneal pannus, corneal ulcer, corneal leukoplakia and so on, further affecting vision.
Harmful complications are varied.
The effect of trichiasis will not only bring itching to the eyes. Many trichiasis patients often have serious problems under long-term patience because they ignore treatment and let it develop. Therefore, trichiasis should not be underestimated. This is not an alarmist. What serious eye diseases can trichiasis cause?
(1) Conjunctivitis: Conjunctivitis is difficult to cure because eyelashes repeatedly stimulate the conjunctiva and cornea, and it is often prone to recurrent attacks, with tears and secretions. When conjunctival inflammation recurs and does not heal for a long time, some patients have conjunctival scar and a few have local symblepharon.
(2) Corneal changes: trichiasis can cause punctate or diffuse corneal epithelial injury, corneal epithelial shedding, superficial corneal opacity, corneal pannus, corneal epithelial keratosis, corneal ulcer and corneal leukoplakia, and then affect vision.
(3) Others: In addition to corneal lesions affecting vision, trichiasis sometimes causes astigmatism and can also affect vision. In children, if astigmatism is obvious, a few can also cause amblyopia.
Treatment is actually that simple.
The treatment of trichiasis is not difficult, what is important is the patient's attention and the choice of medical institutions. There are many treatments for trichiasis, aiming at removing the eyelashes growing against the trend and returning to normal state. Methods mainly focus on the following methods:
1. Pulling out eyelashes: Pulling out eyelashes with eyelash tweezers is simple and has no sequelae. But eyelashes will grow back, so you should have eyelashes every four to six Zhou Ba;
2. Electrocauterization method: The trichiasis will not grow by destroying the hair roots of eyelashes by electrocautery, but electrocautery may not accurately destroy the hair roots, but it may hurt the adjacent normal eyelashes and cause trichiasis again;
3. Freezing method: destroying the hair follicles of eyelashes by freezing at a low temperature of MINUS 20 degrees has a good effect, but it may lead to the shedding of eyelid pigment and uneven eyelid color;
4. Laser method: laser is used to destroy the hair roots of eyelashes, and the effect is good;
5. Operation method: If there is only a small amount of trichiasis locally, trichiasis and eyelid can be removed together. If the trichiasis is very large, even the whole row of eyelashes are inverted, it is necessary to operate to turn the eyelid edge outwards to achieve the effect once and for all.
For trichiasis, as long as it is recognized and treated early, it is not difficult, but if it is left unchecked, the result will be serious. For eye diseases such as trichiasis, we must not be careless and ignore them. Only by recognizing the harm and taking treatment can we ensure our health and let our eyes know the world without defects.