What is a pseudo membrane conjunctivitis?

Acute conjunctivitis in some patients, especially children, if the illness under control at the end, in the event of illness a few days after, aside from the common performance of acute conjunctivitis, purulent secretions such as conjunctival, viscosity, performance in the palpebral conjunctiva is visible a milky white layer of membrane-like formation, call this secretion of cellulose in medicine. This membrane-like material with a cotton swab easily wipe, though will have mild bleeding, formation without conjunctival freckled, this film is called pseudo-membrane formation of conjunctivitis conjunctivitis. Pseudo membranous conjunctivitis in children with or accompanied by redness and swelling of the eyelid, secretions can even be bloody.

Pseudo-membrane formation is a special manifestation of acute conjunctivitis, causes but both caused by bacterial infections, such as pneumococcal, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, such as Streptococcus mutans; or virus infection, such as the herpes zoster virus, adenovirus, or a combination of mixed infection.

Pseudo-membrane forming eyes what harm does it? Pseudo film thick-and the size ranging, can cause eyelid congestive, and height swelling, and oppression corneal around of vascular, caused corneal nutrition bad, due to corneal organization itself no vascular, corneal edema, and and can due to cloudy and effect vision; pseudo film advanced intrusion conjunctival organization deep Department, then formation freckled, can caused eyelid ball adhesion, is eyelid and eye adhesion; eyelid conjunctival was pseudo film cover, cause moist eye, clean conjunctival SAC of physiological function was damage, so easy repeatedly occurs conjunctivitis.

How to pseudo membranous conjunctivitis treated it? First of all should be in accordance with the General treatment of conjunctivitis; followed by pseudo-membrane formation in early pseudo-membrane wipe in a timely manner, once a day, when the pseudo-membrane thinning or reduced, treatment of once every other day until the eyelid swelling subsides, no pseudo-membrane formation. This course is about 1-2 week.

Pseudo membranous conjunctivitis treatment of the key is to recognize it. In children with acute conjunctivitis. If eye symptoms markedly, except pseudo-membrane conjunctivitis. Pseudo-membrane formation early general easy to split wiped, and pseudo-membrane formation after treatment of missed diagnosis cases in a timely manner, are not uncommon on the clinical, worthy of attention.