Eye herpes is an inflammation of cornea, which sometimes causes blindness. Pathogenic organism is a HSV which also provokes oral, genital forms of the disease, shingles and encephalitis. Close contact with patient that experience visible pictures is the reason of transmission. It penetrates into our body through mouth or nose and then can affect different places.
Signs of eye herpes
As this contagion affects eyes, all symptoms of HSV are connected with them. However, there are a variety of pictures, because every patient has his own ones.
Cornea is usually the first place of affection. When herpes begins, there could be no visible symptoms. Person may be hard hit by itching, burning or tingling. Sometimes you feel some foreign body in your eye that disturbs you. In this case, patient rubs them and they become red and watering. After some days with these symptoms, blisters emerge in the eye and remain for some days. Facial herpes
During this stage an individual may have pictures as acute pain, edema and irritation. Almost each patient complains about loss of vision. What's more, you wouldn't be able to recover it. For this reason, with every new recurrence person becomes blinder and blinder. Female genital warts
Try to wear glasses when you are going out, as your affected eye is very sensitive. When you have an excessive photosensitivity, it is better to stay at home in order not to hurt your cornea even greater and make pictures worse. Genital herpes causes
However, this malady usually affects only one eye. Other one may be health, but you shouldn't touch it, as you can transmit the contagion.
Doctors discern three types of ocular herpes, symptoms of which are very similar. It involves different parts of the eyes. Genital herpes early stages
The most common one - is herpes simplex keratitis. It is caused by viral corneal contagion. There are no complications, as pictures leave no scars and go away quickly. Main symptom - is an affection of upper layers of cornea. That's way, patient doesn't feel any discomfort or loss of vision after the sores have healed.
Another form - stromal keratitis - can make you wear glasses, as there can appear scars, which worsen you vision and can lead to complete blindness. In fact, not every person that has got ocular form can experience symptoms of stromal keratitis. It occurs when immunity can't fight with HSV immediately.
Typical pictures of iridocyclitis are inflammation of cornea, optic papillas, pain, itching and redness.
The last one - herpes simplex retinitis - affects retina and is the reason of incomplete lose of vision.
Nevertheless, all these kinds need urgent treatment, which can include taking medicines or surgical operation in more serious cases.