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Most people want their eyelashes to grow a little longer, so that the eyes are big and beautiful. Some people may also go out of their way to get long eyelashes. It is good that the eyelashes grow long, but if the eyelashes grow in the wrong direction and stimulate the eyes, it is not a good thing.
No, one day when chatting in the group, Xiaohua's friend was troubled because of his inverted eyelashes. Generally, eyelashes are straight and long, and I have never heard of them being long upside down.
Partners who have the trouble of inverted eyelashes, let's find out what is going on with inverted eyelashes
What are inverted eyelashes?
Inverted eyelashes are a common eye disease in which varying numbers of eyelashes grow downward (upper eyelid) or upper inner (lower eyelid).
Inverted eyelashes can irritate the cornea and eyeballs. Under the influence of long-term friction of eyelashes, it will cause conjunctival congestion, superficial cornea opacification, neovascular growth, corneal epithelial keratinization and even the formation of corneal ulcers, resulting in blindness.
What are the causes of inverted eyelashes?
Depending on the cause, inverted eyelashes can be divided into primary inverted eyelashes and secondary inverted eyelashes. Primary invariants are caused by eyelash follicle lesions; secondary inversion is inverted eyelashes secondary to other eye diseases.
Diseases such as trachoma, facial marginitis, and facial adenitis may cause eyelashes. In addition, if you suffer from varus eyelids, the eyelashes will also exist accordingly.
In addition to the cause of the disease, trauma is also one of the causes of inverted eyelashes, trauma makes the skin around the eyelashes form scars, scars will pull the eyelashes, forming inverted eyelashes.
Some babies also have inverted eyelashes, possibly due to the short and fat face of infants and young children, the nasal bone is not yet developed, the eyelid fat is more, the eyelid margin is thicker, and it is easy to roll the eyelashes inward.
The main symptoms are present
So how do you tell if you have any eyelashes? Patients with inverted eyelashes may have symptoms such as eye pain, redness, tearing, or photophobia. A persistent foreign body sensation in the eye is also felt, and secretions are increased.
Prolonged inverted eyelashes rubbing against the eyeball may also cause vision loss.
How should it be treated?
According to the number of eyelashes, it can be divided into a small number of inverted eyelashes (< 5 inverted eyelashes) and a large number of inverted eyelashes (≥ 5 inverted eyelashes). At present, there are many ways to treat inverted eyelashes. Non-varus inverted eyelashes can be performed with orbicularis muscle separation and blepharoplasty.
Because the postoperative effect is very similar to double eyelid cutting surgery (double eyelid surgery), for patients with single eyelids, it is considered to spend the same amount of money and harvest two results, which is simply not too cost-effective.
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Non-surgical and surgical treatment can be used for inverted eyelashes in the lower eyelid.
Non-surgical treatment
There are mainly eye lubricants, corneal contact lenses and mechanical removal. Most congenital eyelash can heal on its own and can be treated with antibiotic eye ointment.
For patients who cannot be treated surgically for the time being, going to the hospital with forceps is also a method. Simple and economical, you can also operate at home, which is a test of whether you can be fierce.
However, it will recur about 2-6 weeks after removal, and when the inverted eyelashes are removed, if they are not clean, they will leave some sharp roots, resulting in more serious irritation symptoms. This is even more than worth the loss, so it is very difficult to pull it yourself.
Surgical treatment
●Electrolytic therapy
Electrolysis is capable of destroying hair follicles and can be used in the treatment of trichiasis. However, if the number of eyelashes is too large, the use of electrolytic treatment can easily cause eyelid scarring, and if it is serious, it may cause eyelid deformity.
●Cryotherapy
Because eyelash follicles are more sensitive to cold stimuli than skin and conjunctiva, cryotherapy can damage eyelashes and follicles more intensely.
However, using cryotherapy may cause baldness in the local treatment area, and you will be bald at the same time as you have cured the inverted eyelashes
●Correction of varus blepharosus
It is mainly used in cases where varus ptera is present or conservative treatment is ineffective, and can relieve the irritation of the eye on the eye. There are many ways to correct varus, and it is necessary to choose the appropriate treatment method according to the different causes of the formation of eyelashes.
In summary, although there are many ways to treat trichiasis, there is currently no treatment method that can be applied to a variety of different reasons for inverted eyelash. Therefore, if you want to treat trichiasis, you still need to choose the appropriate method according to the doctor's judgment to reduce complications and improve the cure rate.
Although long eyelashes are good, but eyelashes in the wrong place and direction, the pain is only known to themselves. If someone around you has the trouble of inverted eyelashes, share this article to ta, early detection, early treatment ~
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