What is the cause of bloodshot whites of the eyes? Is there any disease causing this?

Many friends may find that the whites of their eyes are congested in life. Generally, there are many factors that cause this. Lack of sleep, prolonged use of eyes, some eye diseases, etc. may lead to such situation.

1. Suffering from acute conjunctivitis, which is a common epidemic eye disease caused by bacterial and viral infections and is highly contagious.

2. Acute iridocyclitis may be related to autoimmune diseases such as rheumatism, tuberculosis, syphilis, viral infections, etc.

3. Suffering from keratitis. Most keratitis is caused by external infection. Minor corneal trauma is often the cause of infection, and common pathogens are bacteria, fungi, viruses, etc.

4. Suffering from acute angle-closure glaucoma, the cause of the disease is relatively complicated. Women are 2 to 4 times more likely to suffer from it than men. It mostly occurs in middle-aged and elderly women. It is a binocular disease and has a certain relationship with genetics.

5. It may be subconjunctival hemorrhage. Subconjunctival hemorrhage is mostly caused by hypertension, arteriosclerosis, poor coagulation function, local vascular inflammation or increased fragility, forced breath holding or trauma.

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