The general treatment for pterygium is surgical removal, and medication can also be used.
Pterygium usually refers to the proliferation and protrusion of proliferations at the conjunctiva of the eye, which can cover the patient’s cornea and lead to the patient’s loss of vision. Chinese medicine treatment usually cannot eliminate its proliferations, so it is not generally used as a complete solution to the treatment method.
1. Medication: If the pterygium is small, it may not need treatment if it does not affect vision. If combined with trachoma or chronic conjunctivitis, antibiotics or glucocorticoid eye drops, such as 0.5% cortisone eye drops, 0.25% chloramphenicol, can be applied under the guidance of doctors.
2. Surgery: If the pterygium is large, patients can take surgical excision treatment, such as pterygium excision combined with corneal limbal stem cell transplantation, in order to reduce the risk of recurrence, patients generally have a better prognosis after the operation.
Patients with pterygium should go to the hospital in time for consultation and active treatment, and pay attention to eye hygiene, avoid touching the eyes with hands, excessive eye use and other bad habits.