Four eye diseases in spring, prevention and treatment?
Mar 10, 2025
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With the help of Professor Kim Eun-chul, head of the Catholic University of Korea's Bucheon St. Mary's Hospital's An Center, we summarized the types, prevention, and treatment of eye diseases, which are headaches in spring.
◇Seasonal allergic conjunctivitis (SAC)
It is a phenomenon in which the conjunctiva is stimulated by pollen, dust, and animal dandruff in the air, and Korea is mainly caused by yellow dust and pollen in spring. In particular, yellow dust is a mixture of various heavy metal components and dust from China, which can cause severe allergic symptoms and threaten the health of the eyes, so be careful. People with dry eyes should pay extra attention.
Symptoms such as itching, burning, glare, and tears around the eyes and eyelids appear, especially red and itchy symptoms.
The prevention method is to find and eliminate the causative antigen, but it is almost impossible, so efforts should be made to avoid the causative factor as much as possible. In other words, it is better to refrain from going out and drink a lot of moisture when there is a lot of pollen or yellow dust. When going out, wear sunglasses and a wide-brimmed hat, wash your face and hands and feet cleanly after returning home, and use artificial tears to moisturize your eyes.
If symptoms appear, you should get a prescription from a doctor and take antihistamines, mast cell stabilizers, and eosinophil inhibitors. In addition, cold compresses along with eye drops also help relieve symptoms. If the symptoms are severe, you should use steroids, but there may be side effects, so you should follow the doctor's instructions
◇Spring Keratoconjunctivitis (VKC)
It is conjunctivitis, which is usually invented at a young age before the age of 10, and men develop twice as many as women.It is highly related to hot and dry environments, and in Korea, it occurs a lot between April and August. Most are accompanied by allergic diseases such as atopy, asthma, and eczema, and about two-thirds have a family history.
It is characterized by severe itching and foreign body sensation, sticky mucinous secretions, conjunctival congestion, and giant papules appear in the conjunctiva of the upper eyelid valve. In particular, elliptical shield-shaped ulcers can occur in the cornea, resulting in complications that can have fatal visual effects, so you must see a specialist early in your symptoms.
◇ dry eye syndrome
It is a disease that usually appears in cold and dry winter, but dry eyes can also worsen as allergic symptoms caused by yellow dust and pollen in spring worsen.
Most of them are accompanied by itching, redness, and tears along with allergy symptoms.
Treatment is to put artificial tears from time to time, and the prevention method is to refrain from going out, wash your face after going out, and turn on the humidifier at home.
◇epidemic keratoconjunctivitis
Popular keratoconjunctivitis usually occurs in the summer, but because it is caused by a virus like a cold, it is also caused by a virus accompanied by yellow dust and fine dust in spring.
Symptoms can be mistaken for allergies because they are similar to allergic eye diseases in the early stages due to increased tears, congestion, foreign body sensation, dazzling, and vision loss. It has a prevalence period of one to two weeks after the outbreak and is contagious, so you must always wash your hands with soap and use a towel or object separately to prevent transmission.
For prevention, it is helpful to wash your hands and feet clean and wash your face after going out.
Treatment is to use antibiotic eye drops to prevent secondary infection and consume a lot of water and nutrients.
Professor Kim Eun-cheol advised "Since there are many risk factors that are likely to cause eye diseases due to yellow dust and fine dust in spring, it is necessary to thoroughly wash your face and hygiene after going out, and to visit a specialist for accurate diagnosis and appropriate treatment when symptoms appear."
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
