Most people's blepharitis is just a mild irritation - an occasional itch on the eyelids, overcome by a quick rub or scratch. They look in the mirror and think "Oh, my eyes look a bit tired". Generally it will look no worse than this:
- just moderate redness of the lid margins, with perhaps some flaking.
Nevertheless, scarring deep within the lid margin is occurring even in these relatively mild cases, eventually causing the lid margin to "notch" and the eyelashes to twist and turn in abnormal directions - after years of this the lashes can begin to rub against the eye -
and this is when the situation has become really serious - eyelashes rubbing against the eye causes scarring of the cornea which is the normally transparent window on the front of the eye that needs to be absolutely clear for you to see clearly.
It takes many years for blepharitis to cause this serious situation - but we're all living longer, so we need to be caring for our eyes and vision in the expectation that we have many years to live; you don't want to spend the last years of your life coping with health problems that could have been avoided with a bit of care earlier in life.
So, blepharitis needs to be taken seriously, even if it's relatively mild - in its early stages is when treatment is easiest and most effective - and that way you will avoid the above problems in future.
In the next post, we'll present the different ways of treating blepharitis, the treatment methods we know are best and, as always, the evidence that supports what we're saying.
- just moderate redness of the lid margins, with perhaps some flaking.Nevertheless, scarring deep within the lid margin is occurring even in these relatively mild cases, eventually causing the lid margin to "notch" and the eyelashes to twist and turn in abnormal directions - after years of this the lashes can begin to rub against the eye -
It takes many years for blepharitis to cause this serious situation - but we're all living longer, so we need to be caring for our eyes and vision in the expectation that we have many years to live; you don't want to spend the last years of your life coping with health problems that could have been avoided with a bit of care earlier in life.
So, blepharitis needs to be taken seriously, even if it's relatively mild - in its early stages is when treatment is easiest and most effective - and that way you will avoid the above problems in future.
In the next post, we'll present the different ways of treating blepharitis, the treatment methods we know are best and, as always, the evidence that supports what we're saying.
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