What to do if your eyes become inflamed during pregnancy

When pregnant, people may feel their eyes becoming inflamed, so they must take good care of and clean their eyes. They must ensure that their eyes are clean and hygienic, otherwise bacterial infections may occur in their eyes. It is best to use saline solution to clean your eyes, so that the effect will be relatively better.

1. Keep your eyes clean: Since there is a lot of eye secretions when suffering from acute conjunctivitis, you cannot rely solely on medication for treatment. It is important to take good care of your eyes and keep them clean at all times. Wash your eyes or bathe in them with normal saline or 3% boric acid solution, and then drop eye drops to fully exert their medicinal effects.

2. Avoid light and heat: Patients with severe acute conjunctivitis are afraid of light and tear up. To relieve discomfort, they should avoid the stimulation of light and heat. Don't force yourself to read or watch TV. Wear sunglasses when you go out to avoid stimulation from the sun, wind, dust, etc. In order to allow eye secretions to drain smoothly, lower the local temperature and prevent the reproduction and growth of bacteria, the eyes should not be bandaged or covered with eye patches.

(1) Acute conjunctivitis

Cause: It is a common epidemic eye disease caused by bacterial and viral infection and is highly contagious. The onset is acute, with both eyes affected simultaneously or one after the other. The affected eye experiences stinging, itching, and a foreign body sensation. In severe cases, there is photophobia and a burning sensation, but vision is generally not affected.

Signs: Red and swollen eyelids, conjunctival congestion, and secretions that are mostly bacterial, mucous or purulent. When I woke up in the morning, my eyes were closed with secretions. The secretions of viral infections are mostly watery and may be accompanied by corneal lesions, enlargement and tenderness of the preauricular and submandibular lymph nodes.

Treatment: This disease is highly contagious and should be prevented and isolated. Towels and handkerchiefs should not be used by each other, and washbasins should be rinsed and disinfected after use. Keep the eyes clean. If there is a lot of secretion, rinse with clean water and apply antibiotics or antiviral drugs topically. If there are systemic symptoms such as fever and headache, internal medicine treatment should be combined.

(2) Acute iridocyclitis

Cause: The causes of iris and ciliary body diseases are very complex, and most of them are unknown. They may be related to autoimmune diseases such as rheumatism, tuberculosis, syphilis, viral infections, etc. Decreased vision is accompanied by obvious photophobia, tearing, and pain, which may radiate to the eyebrow arches, temporal region, and forehead.

Signs: ciliary congestion or mixed congestion, precipitates behind the cornea (abbreviated as KP), turbid aqueous humor, swollen iris, constricted or irregular pupil, slow light reflex, posterior adhesion of part of the iris and lens, intraocular pressure is generally normal, but sometimes it may increase or decrease.

Treatment: Actively look for the cause and treat it. Use 1% atropine eye drops to dilate the pupil, hot compress, hormone eye drops or subconjunctival injection topically. Severe patients require systemic intravenous injection or oral hormones and anti-inflammatory drugs.