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Eye Inflammation

Eye Inflammation can be a mild eye condition, or a serious problem like Panuveitis, choroiditis or even a type of glaucoma. 

The most common causes for developing eye inflammation include allergy, infection, eye surgery or trauma. What is important is to control the extent and seriousness of eye inflammation to avert scarring to the tissues of the eye. Even small amounts of damage can lead to irreversible loss of eyesight. You must make it a point to consult an eye doctor if you are suffering from persistent eye inflammation. 

Some visible symptoms of eye inflammation include:

Pain

Redness

Swelling

Heat

Eye inflammation typically take place as the body's answer to viral or bacterial infection, but it can also occur when there is no infection. Other events like eye surgery or being around smoke or other irritants can lead to eye inflammation.

Eye inflammation is sometimes due to Choroiditis, a condition where there is swelling in the choroid or the layer at the back (the retina) in the eye. In most patients it only affects one of the eyes. There are several people who suffer from Glaucoma, in this eye condition there is damage to the edge of the optic nerve.

There are numerous other causes for eye inflammation like Uveitis, Conjunctivitis, Episcleritis and more. Due to the variety of factors, many times it requires a professional diagnosis from the eye doctor to get an insight to the basis of an eye inflammation.

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