Common Eye Diseases and Their Management

Obesity and Eye Diseases

Background: Obesity is a chronic metabolic disease that has become an epidemic today.  Objective: Although the effects of obesity on the body have been well studied, less is known about obesity and eye health. Methods The present article is a review study. The search was performed using keywords of obesity and eye diseases in PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science databases from 2000 to 2021.  Resul...

Emergency Management of Common Diseases in Children

Acute respiratory infections, diarrhea and fever are very common in children below the age of five years. All children suffer from these illnesses several times each year. However, during natural disasters like floods children are even more vulnerable to these diseases and death. Pneumonia, diarrhea, measles and malaria, and associated malnutrition, are responsible for over 60% deaths in childr...

Anatomy of the Eye and Common Diseases Affecting the Eye

The human eye is a unique part of the human body that has been described as the window to the human soul. The eye being a complex organ is broadly divided into two segments—anterior and posterior segments. Each of these broad segments has specific disease conditions associated with them. This chapter will extensively describe these various components of the eye and the common disease conditions...

Common eye drops and their implications for pH measurements in the management of chemical eye injuries.

Corticotherapy in Eye Diseases and Its Complications

Corticosteroids are being rn;;ed in different ophthalmic disorder as anti-inflamatory agent.  A.C.T.H. stimulated the supra renal glands and causes an increase steroid concentration of the blood. Corticosteroids can be used as anti­inflamatory agent locally ar.d systemically.  The new corticom,teroids like prednison, dex­xametason and prednisolon are more effective ( 5 to 10 times) than the o...