AN anxious parent brought her 6-year-old son to me 2 or 3 years ago because he had been "stung on the eye by a bee". A cheerful and cooperative child showed me an irritable watery eye with some injection. It was quite definite that the insect had attacked the upper lid at about its mid point, for the site of puncture had been quite obvious at the time; no sign of this remained by the time the p...

Previous reports have indicated the usefulness of Io per cent. Guanethidine eye-drops in reducing lid retraction and relieving symptoms in patients with dysthyroid eye disease (Sneddon and Turner, I966; Gay and Wolksteip, I966; Crombie and Lawson, I967). Administration of these eye drops produces local irritation in about 50 per cent. of patients and, although this is rarely severe, superficial...

AIM To demonstrate the efficacy of a petrolatum based calcium ointment applied to the lower lid skin in the management of dry eye. METHODS In a controlled double masked study, the effects of water free petrolatum ointment containing calcium carbonate (10% w/w) on tear functional factors and ocular surface vital staining in dry eye patients were observed. Petrolatum without calcium carbonate s...

Differences in eyelid structure are well described in the literature with respect to the Asian eyelid, but discussion of differences in eyelid structure between the other races is scarce. Most of the literature focuses on distinctions between “double” and “single” eyelids. Other clinical and surgical considerations are the presence of epicanthi and palpebral fissure slant. By understanding raci...

When we applied a single pulse of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to any part of the human head during a saccadic eye movement, the ongoing eye velocity was reduced as early as 45 ms after the TMS, and lasted ∼32 ms. The perturbation to the saccade trajectory was not due to a mechanical effect of the lid on the eye (e.g., from blinks). When the saccade involved coordinated movements of ...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to test the response of the mouse eye to two methods for the induction of experimental myopia. METHODS Growth patterns of eyes were determined by axial length measurements from birth to adult in eyes of both sexes of normal mice examined on post-natal day 1 to 6 months and at 1 year. For the induction of experimental myopia, Balb/cJ mice were prepared wit...

Background: Blepharoplasty has been the most effective treatment for upper eyelid dermatochalasis. Dry eye disease after blepharoplasty can only be detected sufficient time to allow resolution of early and intermediate sicca symptoms. Aim work: studying ocular surface changes before blepharoplasty.Patients methods: our prospective interventional cohort study conducted on 30 patients, (aged betw...

objective: to report a case of periocular dirofilariasis. patient and findings: a 27-year-old female referred with history of edema and redness in left eye for two days. on slit-lamp examination, a moving threadlike worm was seen in subconjunctival area. two days later a live filaria worm measuring 12 cm in length was extracted from lower lid subcutaneous tissue. the worm was diagnosed dirofila...