How to Diagnose Painful Eye Problems

Eye pain may be described as throbbing, burning, aching or stabbing feeling in or around your eye. It may also feel as if there is foreign object in your eye. Innumerable disorders that can cause pain in the eye or its surrounding areas. These include sinus problems, viral infections, such as the flu, glaucoma, conjunctivitis and inflammation of the lower and upper eye lids. Eye pain can also be caused by direct injury. It is possible to effectively diagnose eye pain.

Instructions

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  If your eye is red and is accompanied by severe eye pain or your vision has become cloudy or has suddenly decreased, you may have acute glaucoma, an eye illness caused by an elevated eye pressure, which can cause blindness or permanent vision damage.

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  If you are experiencing flu-like symptoms, such as tiredness, fever, muscles aches and pain in on or both of your temples, you may have a serious inflammatory illness called temporal arteritis.

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  If you have thick nasal drainage accompanied by pressure or pain on your forehead and behind your eyes, you may have an infection of the sinuses (sinusitis).

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  If your eyes are red and is sensitive to light and accompanied by eye pain, and you see floating dark spots, you may have iritis, which is an inflammation inside your eye.

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  If there is a bite-like swelling on one of your eyes and is accompanied by itchiness, swelling or pain then you may have an insect bite or allergy.

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  If there is pain, swelling or tenderness in your eye when you touch it and is accompanied by a fever, you may have periorbital cellulits, which is a serious infection of the eye.

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  If you have recently hurt your eye and you are seeing flashes of light in one or both eyes, sudden appearance of strings or spots floating in your field of vision or you are experiencing some loss of vision then you may have a detached retina. This is very serious and needs immediate medical attention.