What is gum?

What is gum? usually seen from the eyes in particular, on the corner of mucosal secretions is gum, commonly known as the eye discharge. Health is no gum for the eyes. So how does gum come about? in the inside of the eyelid, ocular surface, not including corneal, also covered with a thin, transparent mucous membrane, called the conjunctiva. Is the secretion of conjunctiva, viscous substance secreted, the eyeball moist. When you eye disorders, inflammatory stimuli of conjunctivitis, viscous substance secreted by the increase, and pathogenic bacteria, tear and vascular inflammatory diffusion cells within mixed together, forming of mucosa of Jeremy Bentham, this is the gum. Conjunctival diseases so that gum came about, closely related to the diseases of the eye.

Specific manifestations of gum as conjunctivitis, as infection pathogens are different and the difference in the severity of the illness, gum capacity the amount of uncertainty. On corners in the early morning light, only a little bit of eye secretion meals, such as chronic conjunctivitis; more to the upper and lower eyelid can be eyelashes stick together, even open your eyes are difficult, such as acute conjunctivitis. Gum are different in nature, divided into the sample, three of mucus and pus. Diagnosis and treatment of this guidance. As thin as water secretion, seen in viral conjunctivitis; Mucinous secretions found in allergic conjunctivitis; amounts of pus secretion is often typical of acute conjunctivitis.

You can say, appears prompting conjunctival inflammation of gum, but this inflammatory but conjunctival inflammation in itself, may also be other parts of the eye and conjunctiva caused by inflammation of the liquid. Therefore, gum do not underestimate, in time to the hospital, identified the cause, symptomatic treatment.