Eye ailments cause a lot of inconvenience. After all, they are no less disturbing the visual function - one of the most important for a person. For example, chalazion - inflammation of the meibomian gland. It is extremely disturbing. Disturbing to such an extent that you need to take sick leave. And the appearance suffers - on the street with a chalazion, if you show yourself, then only when absolutely necessary.
Many people are interested in the question: is it necessary to consult a doctor with this disease? Or is it like barley - it will pass by itself over time?
To begin with, barley should also be treated. But now is not about that. As for the chalazion, it simply requires an appeal to an ophthalmologist. The doctor will prescribe adequate treatment, as a result of which inflammation will be relieved and complete recovery will occur.
The reasons for the appearance of chalazion
There are a number of reasons that can trigger the appearance of a chalazion. In adults, it usually develops as a complication of one or another eye disease (blepharitis, say, conjunctivitis or the same barley). And if the chalazion simultaneously appeared on both the lower and upper eyelids, the demodectic mite should be excluded (such microorganisms can harm the skin, eyelashes, and vision). In addition, the cause of chalazion can be hormonal disruption or disturbances in the digestive tract.
There may be a genetic predisposition to chalazion (this is usually talked about when children get sick).
Chalazion symptoms
This pathology is characterized by a mobile (sometimes inflamed) tubercle under the skin, which has the following features:
- diameter up to 5-6 mm (possibly more);
- lack of pain;
- the conjunctiva is reddened;
- location above (upper) / below (lower) eyelashes;
- suppuration (with layering of pathogenic microflora).
How to eliminate such a formation depends directly on what stage of development the pathology is in.
Chalazion treatment methods
Chalazion treatment is easier and more successful the earlier the patient has sought medical help.
The ophthalmologist, on the basis of an external examination and collection of anamnesis, confirms / refutes the diagnosis and, in the first case, prescribes hormonal therapy, coupled with antibacterial therapy. At the initial stage of the development of the disease, this is quite enough.
If the formation is especially large or complicated by the inflammatory process, the doctor performs an operative intervention, by surgically excising the fibrous capsule (with a laser or with a scalpel incision from the side conjunctiva). The operation is performed under local anesthesia in the ophthalmologist's office (not in a hospital, since hospitalization is not required).
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