Often, lots of people treat red eyes with kid gloves. Yeah right, what’s so special about your eyes turning red anyway.
What people fail to understand is that many serious eye conditions present with red eye more times than often.
The following below are some of the major eye issues that can present with red eyes.
- Allergic conditions e.g vernal conjunctivitis
- Inflammatory conditions like uveitis, scleritis, keratitis
- Infectious conditions like bacterial conjunctivitis, infectious keratitis, panophthamitis, endopthamitis
- Close angle glaucoma.
- Refractive Errors like hyperopia, Astigmatism
- Traumatic conditions like hyphema.
- Others like dry eye syndrome, pterygium, computer vision syndrome. et.c
So when next you experience red eyes, just know that there may be more to it that meets the eyes.
