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SUBCONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE (Causes, signs and symptoms, treatment)

SubConjunctival Hemorrhage is simply conjunctival bleeding.

This SubConjunctival Hemorrhage usually present as severe redness on the white of the eye.

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY: When there’s trauma to the eye or an increase in intraocular pressure, The conjunctival blood vessels ruptures and leak blood underneath the conjunctiva.

SIGN: Visible blood underneath the conjunctiva.

TREATMENT: This condition is usually self limiting, meaning it resolves on its own.

However, it is best to apply topical antibiotics till It resolves, to avoid infection of the collected blood mass.

DIPLOPIA or Double vision (causes, signs and symptoms, Treatment)

Diplopia occurs when an individual sees Double image of an object.

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY: Both the left and right eye sees objects differently and send their individual signals to the brain. Processing and fusion of the two images occur in the brain.

In cases of refractive Errors, strabismus, and most times, pathologies, both eyes send images of one object with different sizes to the brain, thereby making it difficult for the brain to fuse the images.

CAUSES:

  1. Strabismus
  2. Phoria
  3. Refractive Errors
  4. Anisometropia and antimetropia
  5. Anisekonia
  6. Pathologies

SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS: visualizing two images of an object side by side, diagonally or vertically placed, dizziness

TREATMENT: treating the underlying cause resolves the condition.