Patient Question:What can I do about recurrent keratitis for many years and the loss of vision year by year?
Description of the disease:My eyes are repeatedly red and painful, and they get better after treatment, but my vision decreases year by year Help wanted:1. How can I stop getting inflammation every year?
2. How can I improve or restore my vision?
Medication: Name of medication: Anti-viral eye drops, anti-viral tablets Instructions for use: Intermittent for 2 years now.
Hospital ophthalmology reply: Hello: Recurrent attacks of viral keratitis are a more common problem. Due to the repeated infiltration of viral lesions in the cornea and subsequent scar formation, the cornea tends to become progressively cloudy and so vision declines year by year. Patients suffer not only from the pain of inflammatory episodes and subsequent loss of visual function, but also from the altered appearance of the cornea as it turns white (the black eye turns white).
In response to the above, our doctors have to do the following three things: 1) control inflammation recurrence; 2) improve visual acuity; 3) improve appearance.
Then, the specific treatment plan we have a certain insight in the ophthalmology of Tongji Hospital of Shanghai Tongji University. Briefly described as follows: 1, in the acute phase of inflammation, the use of traditional treatment programs, including local application of antiviral drugs for the eye and systemic application. In the stable phase of inflammation, if the corneal clouding caused by previous lesions is more serious and affects vision, we will use lamellar (or deep lamellar) corneal transplantation for treatment. Our past experience at Shanghai Tongji Hospital has shown that this type of corneal transplantation not only removes the lesion more completely, making the inflammation less likely to recur, but the transplanted clear cornea will often help improve the vision of the affected eye. At the same time, the white lesion is removed and the appearance of the affected eye is significantly improved.
I hope the above will help you!