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The causes are bacterial, viral, fungal, parasitic and allergic reactions. The pathogenic agent enters the iris and ciliary body from the outside or through the blood.
Inflammation, as a rule, affects the iris and the ciliary body at the same time. The source of infection may be inflammatory foci existing in various organs, eg teeth, tonsils, gallbladder, appendix, etc. Inflammations can also accompany rheumatic diseases, diabetes, and infectious diseases. The disease may be acute or chronic.
Symptoms: in acute inflammation there are severe eye pain, lacrimation, photophobia and visual acuity disturbances. Pain is especially worsening in the evening and at night. The eye is bluish red in color and the iris turns greenish or brownish. The pupil narrows and is often distorted as a result of inflammatory adhesions.
Chronic inflammations are much rarer than acute inflammations and their symptoms are less severe. Nodular, grayish or yellowish infiltrates appear in the iris, sometimes even visible to the naked eye. The most common cause is tuberculosis, sarcoidosis or syphilis.
Treatment Iritis and ciliary body inflammation must be performed only by an ophthalmologist, most often in a hospital setting. In the initial stage of the disease, it is difficult to distinguish them from acute conjunctivitis or an acute attack of glaucoma, therefore, treatment by a non-specialist specialist may delay proper diagnosis and cause complications that are dangerous for the eyesight. For many people, the disease is recurrent and eventually leads to after glaucoma or cataracts.