Redness, tearing and grinding of the eyes may be caused by conjunctivitis, keratitis and conjunctival stones.
1. Conjunctivitis: Conjunctivitis refers to inflammation of the conjunctiva, and the common symptoms are eye discharge, eye redness, eye grinding, and if the lesion involves the cornea, there will also be photophobia, tearing, blurred vision and other symptoms of keratitis.
2. Keratitis: Keratitis is inflammation of the cornea caused by various reasons. Usually there will be redness of the eyes, photophobia, tearing and other symptoms, the eyes may have a strong foreign body sensation, grinding eyes.
3. Conjunctival stones: Conjunctival stones are mostly due to inflammation of the eye surface stimulation, excessive secretion of eyelid glands, resulting in the formation of hard stones on the surface of the lid conjunctiva, when the stones are large, the patient will have a foreign body sensation, which can cause eye grinding. The protruding hard objects can abrade the cornea, and eye irritation symptoms such as eye redness, pain, and tearing can occur.
Patients with eye redness, tearing and eye grinding should go to the ophthalmology department of the regular hospital in a timely manner to identify the cause of the disease and then targeted treatment.