What are the causes of feeling like there is something in the eye

Many people feel that there is something in their eyes, and it also poses a threat to the health of their eyes. Therefore, many patients who feel that there is something in their eyes want to fully understand the causes of this symptom. The specific answers are given below. If you want to have a comprehensive understanding, you can read the detailed introduction below.

When sitting in front of a computer for a long time or in a heated environment, people often feel dry eyes and blurred vision, which are symptoms of dry eyes. According to your situation, you should first pay attention to your work and rest time, pay attention to the time you use your eyes, take breaks in between, and try to reduce close contact with the computer.

We should take this disease seriously in our daily lives, otherwise long-term illness may easily cause damage to the eyes or even blindness. If your eyes feel burning, red, swollen, or have a foreign body in them, these are symptoms of dry eyes. Conscious crying can relieve this symptom, but it is not a cure.

There are many causes of this disease, such as long-term use of computers, smoking, polluted air, etc. Especially in winter, being in a heated environment for a long time is more likely to cause this disease.

Depending on the cause, it can be divided into the following three categories.

1. Substantial conjunctival and keratitis sicca: It is caused by extensive scarring of the palpebral conjunctiva and bulbar conjunctiva, which destroys the secretory glands of the conjunctiva itself and even the lacrimal glands and lacrimal ducts. Such as severe trachoma, extensive thermal or chemical burns, severe chronic conjunctivitis, pemphigoid, etc.

2. Oral-ocular dryness-arthritis syndrome (or "dry eye syndrome"): This is a disease with unclear etiology. In recent years, it has been discovered that it may be caused by abnormalities in the innate immune system. The main manifestations are keratoconjunctivitis sicca, dry mouth, and complicated connective tissue diseases (the most common is rheumatoid arthritis).

3. Conjunctival epithelial sicca: This is one of the ocular manifestations of vitamin A deficiency. The main cause of vitamin A deficiency is the high consumption of vitamin A in the body and the low intake. It is more common in infants and young children who are improperly fed with artificial feeding, and is very likely to occur when they have poor absorption or suffer from consumptive dysentery such as measles, pneumonia, disease, diarrhea, etc. In adults, it is more common in patients with advanced liver cancer, cirrhosis and long-term chronic digestive tract diseases.

The above content introduces in detail the causes of feeling that there is something in the eyes. Therefore, for many patients with this symptom, in order to protect the health of their eyes, they must have a comprehensive understanding of the causes introduced above. After understanding the causes, they should receive symptomatic treatment as soon as possible, so that they can feel that there is something in their eyes as soon as possible and recover as soon as possible through treatment.