Symptoms of a fungal infection of the eye

When a fungal infection occurs in the eye, the patient may experience discomfort such as conjunctival congestion, foreign body sensation in the eye, photophobia, tearing, and loss of vision. Patients with fungal infections of the eye tissue, mainly in the cornea and the interior of the eyeball, respectively, fungal keratitis and fungal endophthalmitis. The main symptoms of fungal keratitis patients are conjunctival congestion, eye pain, photophobia, tearing, vision loss and other uncomfortable symptoms, the doctor uses a slit lamp microscope to magnify the observation, you can see the cornea with white lesions formed. Fungal endophthalmitis patients are mainly manifested as vision loss, conjunctival congestion and edema, eye pain, etc. When patients perform fundoscopy and ophthalmic ultrasound examination, turbid clumps can be found inside the eyeballs, and it is usually necessary to take the intraocular fluid to do the culture in order to confirm the diagnosis. It is recommended that patients with ocular fungal infections consult a doctor to evaluate their condition and follow the doctor’s instructions for treatment.