For contact lenses users, you should be more disciplined in take care of your contact lens hygiene. Dirty contact lenses can cause keratitis.

Keratitis is a condition in which the cornea of the eye become inflamed. This condition is often marked by pain and vision problems. Keratitis is an inflammation of the cornea (a transparent membrane covering the colored part of the eye and pupil).

At the first time using softlens or contact lenses, usually you will be reminded to always maintain the hygiene of the contact lenses. Lack of contact lens hygiene can cause serious eye infection called acanthamoeba keratitis (AK). Infection of the eye may cause disturbances in vision and further more it can cause blindness. These infections not only occur in people who often use the soft lens, but often also experience a part of everyone’s eyes exposed to dust, water, and soil.

Factors, Causes and Symptoms

Keratitis can occur in children and adults. Bacteria are generally unable to strike a healthy cornea, but some conditions can cause bacterial infection occurs. For example, injury or trauma to the eye can cause corneal infection.

The cause of keratitis is vary. Bacteria, viruses, and fungi is one of the most factors that can cause keratitis. Other causes are dryness of the eyes caused by the use of contact lenses, foreign objects into the eye, or even more irritating. In addition, vitamin A deficiency and the use of contact lenses that are less well also be one cause of keratitis.

Keratitis cases are often found in those who are too often using contact lenses. Contact lens users are often lack  in contact lens hygiene. For example, a contact lens that is rarely cleaned up after use or the use of contact lenses that have expired.

Keratitis often occurs because patients do not store or disinfect contact lenses properly, which causes infection in the eye. Apart from the user subjects factor, there is also an activity that can be risk factors for this disease are wearing contact lenses while swimming or bathing in the shower (shower) without removing contact lenses.

Some of the symptoms of keratitis caused by them, out of excessive tears and pain very much on the eyes. In addition there is also decreased visual acuity. In some cases also found inflammation in the eyelid that causes the eyes become red and swollen and very sensitive to excessive light.

This disease occurs because the cornea is injured and feared would happen to blindness if not immediately get medical treatment. In case of further keratitis can look like a ring that covers the iris.

Diagnosis and Treatment

Diagnosis is done by a way called anamnesis and which would find out the early history of the patient. The diagnosis of keratitis is rarely done properly at an early stage. This disease usually can be diagnosed after all efforts that have been done for treatment was failure.

Less Keratitis patients which receive right medical diagnosis, because this disease is often suspected as herpes simplex keratitis. Other diseases that also have similarities with keratitis which is caused by fungi and keratitis due to mycobacterium. The diagnosis can also be proved by investigation. Investigations that can be done by performing a corneal biopsy culture by finding its amoeba form.

Eyedroppers or antibiotic eye ointment, antifungal, and antiviral usually given to cure keratitis, but these drugs should only be given with a doctor’s prescription. Wrong or bad treatment could cause deterioration of the symptoms. Topical corticosteroid medicines can cause corneal deterioration in patients with keratitis due to herpes simplex virus.

Medicines containing steroids should not be used for the affected eye keratitis, because the disease may worsen and cause corneal ulceration and even blindness. And you must consult with your doctor for eye treatment conditions.

Keratitis patients typically use an eye cover to protect the eyes from bright lights, objects that can contaminate the eyes, and other irritating substances. But it is preferable to treatment to an eye doctor to get a more precise handling.

Antibiotics, anti-fungal, and anti-virus can be used depending on the bacteria cause. Spectrum antibiotics can be used for treatment, but if the laboratory results found the cause, treatment can be replaced in accordance with the patient’s condition. It takes more than one kind of treatment. Surgical laser therapy are sometimes made to the already heavy case, because the patient needed a corneal transplant.

There are lot of factors that may cause eye problems and some of them are very obscure. Therefore, people can not notice them till the symptoms are very serious. For example, smoking is a very typical case. It can sometimes lead to red eyes and some other eye damages at the initial stage. As time goes by, smoking can cause much worse eye problems. Such as, Macular degeneration, a disease that often happen on aged people, can cause very horrible blurriness and vision damage on the eyes of smokers. The reason is that the harmful cigarette chemicals, transported by the blood, are harmful for the cornea. The past cases have proved that such damages can never be repaired once they appeared.

Statistics shows that people who stop smoking can suffer less on this matter. They will not easily be prone to eye diseases, as Macular degeneration. A decade later, such risks will be much reduced. Of course, such risks will be even greatly reduced after two and more decades later. Meanwhile, they have almost the same chance of getting such diseases as people who do not smoke do. No other reasons can be found for the emergence of Macular degeneration, but smoking. In this sense, if you want to enjoy the health on your eyes, just stop smoking. Still more, diseases as macular degeneration will not happen onto you easily.

In other cases, there are many causes for eye damage. Of which, for example, eye strain is included. Different with the damage caused by smoking, eye strain can be very bothersome. Generally, such symptoms will not last very long, and they will disappear soon if some measures are taken for eye treatment.

If you like to improve your eyes sight, you have multiple choices. Of course the treatments of eye strain can be operated without glasses. People who often use computer are prone to eye strains. If you are suffering from such eye problems, you are suggested to sit in right position. Sitting too close to the computer may cause some bad effects on people’s eyes. These people may suffer from some eye problems, as myopia. Few eye blinks can also lead to eye strain. If you feel some discomfort in your eyes for the sake of looking too long at the computer, you are suggested to blink properly.

Some suggestions and methods can be applied to help you improve your eye sight. As for the matter of blinking, you may choose to do some special exercises. For example, you can close your eyes for several seconds and open them quickly. Scanning your eyes at objects several meters afar can also help you a lot on your vision. Palming is another way that can effectively solve your eye problems. Close your eyes tightly and palm them with your hands for sometime. After that, open your eyes. This method can make you feel very refreshed and your vision improved a lot. This method is strongly recommended for people who often use computer.

All the abovementioned methods have explicitly expounded my knowing on the way to improve your eye sights without glasses. I hope this can help those of you who are suffering from one and another eye problem.

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