What to do about sunken eyes

The sunken eyes are mostly caused by physiological factors, orbital trauma and atrophy of the eyeballs, which need to be treated with drugs or surgery according to the causes of sunken eyes. 1. Physiological sunken eyes are mostly related to age, with age, the fat in the orbital area will gradually shrink, which will make the eyes sunken, this is a normal physiological phenomenon, and there is no need for treatment. 2. Orbital trauma: when the orbital fracture occurs, the contents of the eye will be dislodged into the sinus cavity through the fracture, thus causing the eyeballs to be sunken in. This kind of patients can be treated with prednisone or dexamethasone as prescribed by doctor, which can reduce the swelling and anti-inflammatory effect, and if necessary, orbital fracture fixation can be carried out. 3. Eyeball atrophy: mostly related to congenital factors, old retinal detachment, etc., which can cause eyeball invagination, poor vision and other symptoms. Once atrophy of the eyeball is formed, it is usually irreversible. If you still have vision, you can follow the doctor’s instruction to use sodium vitrate eye drops and other medication to protect the treatment; if you lose vision, you can have surgery to remove the eyeball and fill in the treatment. If you have the symptom of sunken eyeball, you should go to the regular hospital in time, find out the cause of sunken eyeball and cooperate with the doctor to treat it, and follow the doctor’s instruction if you need to use medication.