How to treat trachoma in children

Trachoma is a relatively common eye disease caused by chlamydia infection of the eyes. When you suffer from trachoma, you will feel that something is rubbing against your eyes, and you will see an uneven surface like sand on the surface of the conjunctiva. When a child suffers from trachoma, he or she must receive timely treatment. When trachoma becomes serious, it will cause great harm to eyesight, so parents must pay attention to it.

How to treat trachoma in children

Once a child is diagnosed with trachoma, prompt and effective treatment measures should be taken promptly and persevered. Usually, trachoma treatment needs to be continued for 3-6 months to be effective.

The main treatment measures are:

1. Topical eye drops: commonly used 15%-30% sulfacetamide sodium eye drops (also known as Zebra eye drops), 0.1% rifampicin eye drops, 0.1% peptide butamine eye drops (also known as brightening eye drops) and other eye drops, 1-3 drops each time, 3-4 times a day, you can apply chloramphenicol eye ointment at night.

2. Local application or follicle squeezing method: If there are many follicles in trachoma, you can ask the doctor to destroy the follicles with cuttlebone or follicle squeezing forceps. Treat once a week, and the effect will be seen after 2-3 treatments, but it cannot be a cure, and the child still needs to cooperate with drug treatment.

3. Other treatments: Mild trachoma can usually be treated with local medications, while patients with severe active trachoma or concurrent corneal ulcers can take oral sulfonamides or antibiotics under the guidance of a doctor, such as co-trimoxazole, doxycycline, acetylspiramycin, etc. They can also take oral vitamin AD pills to promote the repair of the corneal epithelium and relieve eye discomfort.

The dangers of trachoma

1. Trachoma is a chronic infectious eye disease caused by a microorganism called Chlamydia, which is usually transmitted through contact. This type of chlamydia is so small that hundreds of it put together are only as big as an ordinary bacterium. It cannot be seen with an ordinary microscope and can only be seen with an electron microscope that can magnify tens of thousands of times. The more Chlamydia multiplies inside the lens, the greater the impact on the lens.

2. When a child first develops trachoma, the symptoms of mild trachoma are not obvious, so the child himself often cannot feel it and it is often ignored and is only discovered by the doctor during a physical examination. When the disease is serious, the eyes will often feel itchy, dry, photophobic, tearful, and painful. In severe cases, vision may deteriorate. If an ulcer occurs on the cornea, eye pain, headache, photophobia, tearing, blurred vision, and even loss of vision may occur.

3. Trachoma is very harmful, so it is very important to do a good job in treatment and prevention. If you have trachoma, you should go to the hospital and ask the doctor for thorough treatment. Adhere to the treatment with chloramphenicol, sodium sulfamethoxazole, rifampicin and other eye drops, as well as chloramphenicol, erythromycin and tetracycline eye ointments, while paying attention to hygiene and strengthening prevention.