Trichiasis

Acute

What is Trichiasis?

Trichiasis is an eye condition in which your eyelashes grow the wrong way — toward your eye rather than away from it. Having misdirected eyelashes causes your eye to become irritated because the lashes scrape against the cornea, the conjunctiva and the inside of your eyelids.

In people with trichiasis, the eye becomes red and irritated, feels as though something is in it (foreign body sensation), and develops tearing and sensitivity and sometimes pain when exposed to light. If the condition persists, scarring of the cornea can occur and affect vision.

  • Infection.
  • Scarring.
  • Depigmentation of skin (loss of skin color).
  • Having eyelashes where some individual lashes are missing.

Different causes include chronic blepharitis, trauma, previous surgery, chemical burns, infection, ocular cicatricial pemphigoid, Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, or distichiasis (ferreira). Trichiasis can be classified as either minor (fewer than 5 cilia) or major (5 or more cilia).

Trichiasis treatment involves removing the eyelash, follicle or both, or redirecting eyelash growth. Sometimes trichiasis affects only a few eyelashes. Your ophthalmologist may simply remove them with forceps (tweezers). There is a chance the eyelashes may grow back again in the wrong direction.

Factors associated with trichiasis in a conditional logistic regression included history of trichiasis in the women's mother (odds ratio [OR] = 3.6; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 2.0-6.5); sleeping in a room with a cooking fire during childbearing years (OR = 1.8; 95% CI: 1.2-2.8); a home of wood and earth during.

How is it diagnosed?

How is it diagnosed?

Your provider may suggest using lasers to remove the misdirected eyelashes of trichiasis. An argon laser was the first type of laser used to treat trichiasis. The treatment may also use infrared diode lasers, ruby lasers and Nd:YAG lasers (neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet lasers).

How is it treated?

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Trichiasis treatment involves removing the eyelash, follicle or both, or redirecting eyelash growth. Sometimes trichiasis affects only a few eyelashes. Your ophthalmologist may simply remove them with forceps (tweezers).

 

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