Always get your eyes tested by a doctor (particularly an eye specialist) and not by opticians who cannot judge whether you are suffering from any eye disorder. Following points may be kept in mind, before you approach an eye specialist:
Month: August 2017
Eye Care: ENT Disorders – Cure for Acute Sinusitis
Sinusitis may be of various types. Description of a few are given here under:
ACUTE MAXILLARY SINUSITIS
Aetiology : Most commonly, it is viral rhinitis which spreads to involve the sinus mucosa. This is followed by bacterial invasion.
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Eye Care: ENT Disorders – Cure for Epistaxis
Bleeding from inside the nose is called epistaxis. It is fairly common and is seen in all age groups—children, adults and older people. It often presents as an emergency. Epistaxis is a sign and not a disease per se and an attempt should always be made to find any local or constitutional cause.
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Eye Care: ENT Disorders – Cure for Allergic Rhinitis
It is an immunologic response of nasal mucosa to air-borne allergens and is characterised by watery nasal discharge, nasal obstruction, sneezing and itching in the nose. This may also be associated with symptoms of itching in the eyes, palate and pharynx. Two clinical types have been recognised:
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Eye Care: ENT Disorders – Conducting Hearing Loss and Its Management
Any disease process which interferes with the conduction of sound to reach cochlea causes conductive hearing loss. The lesion may lie in the external ear and tympanic membrane, middle ear or ossicles up to stapediovestibular joint.
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Eye Care: ENT Disorders – Acute Suppurative Otitis Media
It is an acute inflammation of middle ear by pyogenic organisms. Here, middle ear implies middle ear cleft, i.e. eustachian tube, middle ear, attic, aditus, antrum and mastoid air cells.
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Eye Care: ENT Disorders – Treatment for Tinnitus
Tinnitus is ringing sound or noise in the ear. The characteristic feature is that the origin of this sound is within the patient. Usually, it is unilateral but may also affect both ears. It may vary in pitch and loudness and has been variously described by the patient as roaring, hissing, swishing, rustling or clicking type of noise. Tinnitus is more annoying in quiet surroundings, particularly at night, when the masking effect of ambient noise from the environment is lost.
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Eye Care: ENT Disorders – Treatment for Otalgia (Earache)
Pain in the ear can be due to problems occurring locally in the ear or referred to it from remote areas.
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Eye Care: ENT Disorders – How to Clean Wax in the Ear? How to Remove Foreign Bodies and Maggots from Ear?
As our ears are prove to dust, sunlight, cold winds, pollutants etc. it is not surprising that many a complications occured in or outside the ear. Some common ailments related to ear are given here under.
Eye Care: Eye Care Procedures and Surgeries
VISUAL FIELD TEST
Visual field testing (perimetry) is used to check the whole area that each eye can see (the visual field). The development of blank sections in the visual field may be casued by various underlying disorders. Many eye disorders cause characteristic visual field defects that can develop without being noticed. Testing allows early detection and treatment.
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