Conjunctivitis caused by discharge into eyes of venom of spitting snake, 63, 64.
In the slighter cases we find merely an acute conjunctivitis with a slight central scotoma which passes off within twenty-four to forty-eight hours.
Milder forms of catarrhalconjunctivitis are not very uncommon.
Blennorrhoeal conjunctivitis is a rare complication of teething, and when it occurs usually accompanies the eruption of the upper molars and canines (eye teeth).
This is especially true of purulent conjunctivitis when primarily caused by an infectious agent.
If the conjunctivitis is intense, the discharges should be removed and cold compresses applied.
In diphtheritic conjunctivitis it is valued highly, and in nasal injections I have found it very useful.
Diphtheritic conjunctivitis requires great attention and permits of no loss of time.
Bouisson (1847) reports a case of diphtheritic conjunctivitis resulting in loss of the eye.
Diphtheritic conjunctivitis occurs either primarily or as a complication of pharyngeal or nasal diphtheria.
Hildige describes diphtheritic conjunctivitis as seen in Graefe's practice, and looks upon it as contagious.
Mackenzie, while probably having seen false membrane appear on the conjunctiva when in a state of inflammation, yet refuses to recognize diphtheritic conjunctivitis as a distinct disease.
Conjunctivitis of moderate severity, usually associated with otorrhoea, occurred in about 5 per cent.
The subject of diphtheritic conjunctivitis was studied by A.
Inflammation of the cornea may also be due to the extension of catarrhal conjunctivitis or intraocular disease, and it may occasionally occur without any perceptible cause.
Inflammation is the only known cause, although it may not occur immediately; it frequently follows catarrhal conjunctivitis and keratitis as a sequela.
Acute conjunctivitis lasts as a rule only for a week or two: the chronic type may persist, with or without occasional exacerbations, for years.
Other ectogenetic causes of catarrhal conjunctivitis which have been studied are mostly microbic.
Many children suffering from phlyctenular conjunctivitis get after a short time an eczematous excoriation of the skin of the nostrils.
Although this variety of conjunctivitis is principally due to infection by gonococci, other microbes, which more frequently set up a catarrhal type, may lead to the purulent form.
Of rarer forms of conjunctivitis may be mentioned Parinaud's conjunctivitisand the so-called spring catarrh.
The Morax-Axenfeld bacillus sets up a conjunctivitis which affects individuals of all ages and conditions and which is contagious.
In all cases of catarrhalconjunctivitis the symptoms are also more marked if the eyes have been tied up, even though this may produce a temporary relief.
The treatment in all severer forms of conjunctivitis should be undertaken with the primary object in view of preventing any implication of the cornea.
Complications with other varieties of catarrhal conjunctivitis are not uncommon.
As regards contagion there is no doubt that the secretion in the case of a true conjunctivitis (i.
Some of the severer forms of catarrhal conjunctivitis are accompanied not only by a good deal of swelling of both conjunctiva and lids but also by a decidedly muco-purulent secretion.
This mild form of conjunctivitis generally lasts for many months, subject to more or less complete disappearance followed by recurrences.
Did you ever see a catarrhal conjunctivitis that acted in this way or a cold in the head in which the patient could be cured and catch a fresh cold twenty times a day?
Did you ever cure a catarrhal conjunctivitis or rhinitis in three minutes by moving the patient from one room to another?
While hay fever is not strictly a catarrhal inflammation, the cure of hay fever by curing a coexisting catarrhal rhinitis or conjunctivitis seems easily possible.
There is an intense conjunctivitis and if the larvae are not removed promptly the envelopes of the eye are gradually destroyed and the organ lost.
The essential feature of this trouble is a nodular conjunctivitis which simulates tuberculosis of the conjunctiva and hence has been called pseudo-tubercular.
Besides the respiratory oppression, some patients develop urticarial lesions and occasionally even conjunctivitis and a catarrhal condition of the nasal mucous membrane.
Staphylococci, pneumococci, and streptococci are probably the most common of the bacteria to be found in nonspecific conjunctivitis and keratitis.
The diplobacillus of Morax and Axenfeld gives rise to an acute or chronic blepharo-conjunctivitis without follicles or membrane, for which zinc sulphate seems to be a specific.
Commonly the pneumonia bacteria do not cause conjunctivitis unless the patient is susceptible in a special manner.
In the course of an attack of conjunctivitis a patient acquires the habit of winking his eye, and though the inflammation subsides, the habit persists.
Their starting-point is always some peripheral stimulus, in particular an everyday variety of conjunctivitis characterised by the presence of granulations in the lower part of the sac.
If conjunctivitis develops in twenty-four hours, the patient is proved to have tuberculosis.
Conjunctivitis is due to a germ, and will spread unless checked.
In the milder attacks of conjunctivitis the treatment should be that recommended above for congestion of the lids.
