Iritis: Cause, Symptom and Treatment, Chronic Iritis, Diet and Iritis, Iritis Traumatic

The iris is an important part of the eye. It gives the eye color with its muscular fibers. These muscular fibers acts like window blinds. It helps control the entry of light in the eye. If it is dark, the eyes widen and when it is too bright, the eyes squint.

However, vision problems may happen due to various cases including inflammation of the iris. This inflammation is called iritis. Iritis is painful and is vision threatening, thus, understanding it may help us avoid putting our sight in danger.

Signs and symptoms of iritis

• Small specks of dots in the field of vision or floaters may be an initial sign of iritis.
• Red eye, especially near the iris is another common symptoms of iritis.
• Pain in the eye, which may get worse when exposed to bright light.
• Headache with pulling or burning sensation
• Blurred or distorted vision, which may get worst if not taken cared of immediately

When you feel any or all of these symptoms, immediately visit your ophthalmologist or seek a complete medical check up. This is because various diseases or disorders may be connected with iritis.

Causes of iritis

There are cases of iritis that seem to have no known cause; others however may be any of the following:

• Trauma or injury in or around the eye, this may cause inflammation that may needs immediate attention.
• Non-trauma causes of iritis or inflammation of the iris may include diseases such as psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, sarcoidosis, Reiter's disease, inflammatory bowel disease and other diseases, which your medical doctor may immediately recognize and thus assist you in recognizing the problem.
• Other conditions, which may cause iritis, are infectious diseases such as Lyme disease, tuberculosis, scleroderma, syphilis and herpes simplex, among others.

Because all of the above conditions are not only vision threatening but rather life threatening as well, immediate attention may be necessary.

Your medical doctor will be able to tell you the best treatment to avoid worsening of your iritis, thus complete medical check up may be in place.

Treatment of Iritis

• Trauma iritis may be treated by topical corticosteroid or dilating drops. Various other tests may be conducted to ensure that the condition will not progress into a more severe vision threatening condition.
• Non-trauma iritis however may be recurrent and chronic, in this case oral steroids or other immunomodulating drugs will be necessary.

Treatment may also need to be directed to the disease that may have caused the inflammation of the iris.

In addition, the treatment recommended by the doctors with regards to the underlying disease needs to be regularly taken. Assurance of adherence to the manner of medication is necessary to save your sight.

If treatment is not done immediately, loss of sight or other more severe eye problems may develop.

Thus, if you want to save your vision, adherence to medication in combination with avoiding too much bright light by wearing eyeglasses may be necessary.

To help manage the discomfort and minimizing pain, mild analgesic may also be used to relieve the pain, however, ensure that your medical doctor prescribes the analgesic, this will ensure that no contrasting effect will happen among those medications given to you for other disease.

Vitamin A supplementation may also be helpful to ensure that you will be able to arrest eye problems well.

Finally, your medical doctor will know the reason why you are experiencing eye problem, his recommendation and advice is thus necessarily followed to ensure you will be able to save your sight and the future of your family as well.

Wearing sunglasses when exposed to bright lights such as the sun may also be a proactive approach to eye problems.

Eye problems may possibly be inherited; ensuring you take care of your eyes is synonymous to taking care of the eyes of your future generations.

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