To investigate the effect of the mild conjunctivitis complication on the tear break-up time in patients with dry eye

VernacularTitle:轻度结膜炎症对93例干眼病患者泪膜破裂时间的影响研究
Author: Juntao CHEN ; Wei ZHANG ; Bin YUN
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: tear break-up time; dry eye; mild conjunctivitis; allergic conjunctivitis
From: Chongqing Medicine 2013;(21):2484-2485
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To investigate the effect of the mild conjunctivitis complication on the tear break-up time(BUT) in pa-tients with dry eye .Methods 93 patients with dry eye from Sep .2007 to Sep .2011 were selected .For all of them the BUT was 5 seconds or less than 5 seconds after corneal fluorescein staining .They were divided into experimental group (with mild conjunctivi-tis) and control group (without mild conjunctivitis) .We checked the BUT and compared the difference of BUT between experimen-tal group and control group .Results The average BUT of the 54 patients with complicated mild conjunctivitis ,of which conjuncti-val papillae was found in 40 cases ,was (3 .54 ± 1 .02)s ,the average BUT of the 39 patients without conjunctivitis was(3 .41 ± 1 .04) s .There was no significant difference between two groups .Conclusion Dry eyes complicated mild conjunctivitis had no effect on BU T .