Uveitis

Uveitis refers to inflammation of the uvea, the middle layer of the eye. The uvea is classified into anterior, intermediate and posterior depending on which area is affected. Because uveitis occurs for many reasons, seeing a qualified eye specialist is important. If an eye injury or infection caused your uveitis, your treatment focuses on that particular condition. If a disease elsewhere in your body caused the uveitis, you may be able to control it by treating the underlying cause.

Symptoms of Uveitis

• Eye redness

• Eye pain

• Light sensitivity

• Blurred vision

• Dark, floating spots in your field of vision (floaters)

• Decreased vision

Risk factors of Uveitis?

• Eye injury or surgery

• Inflammations related to other disorders, such as sarcoidosis, ankylosing spondylitis, juvenile idiopathic arthritis.

• Infections inside or outside the eye, such as cat-scratch disease, herpes zoster, syphilis, toxoplasmosis

• Cancers that spreads into the eye.

Treatment is generally with oral and topical medication but vitrectomy surgery may be need in specific cases.