It has been reported that antihistamines do not fully modify symptoms of allergic conjunctivitis in clinical settings, suggesting that histamine is not the only contributor to symptom generation in the disease. However, in the majority of experimental allergic conjunctivitis models, antihistamines are very effective in the reduction of symptoms. In the present study, we used our recently develo...

Background Scant reports concerning Kawasaki Disease (KD) in Sicily have been published. Aim: to collect data from a 7-year survey. Methods: the charts of children discharged with the diagnosis of KD since January 2000 to December 2007, from the paediatric Units of 5 tertiary level Hospitals in Sicily were retrospectively reviewed. Data were collected through a questionnaire; gender, age at ons...

Conjunctivitis and its treatment have been widely described in ancient Indian medicine, 50 cases of Conjunctivitis (Acute) were clinically studied with Glycyrrhiza glabra along with comparative approach of Chlorophenicol. 25 cases studied with Glycyrrhiza glabra have shown encouraging results from which the author concludes that, the drug has got a definite role in Conjunctivitis.

purpose: the main purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of herpes simplex virus 1 and 2 (hsv-1 and hsv-2), varicella-zoster virus and adenovirus associated with conjunctivitis in swab samples of patients who referred to eye specialist hospitals in tehran. methods: in this cross-sectional study, swab samples from patients with acute conjunctivitis during the first sixth months of ...

As previously described (Mann, Greer, Perret, and McLean, 1960), a human volunteer was experimentally infected with a West Australian strain of trachoma virus. After the successive appearance of conjunctival hyperaemia, pre-auricular adenitis, tarsal follicles, epithelial keratitis, papillary hypertrophy, and pannus, treatment was commenced on the 31st day after infection. This report completes...