If you suddenly grow "little wings" in your eyes, be careful, this is a pterygium eye disease!

Doctor, I have "little wings" growing in my eyes! What's going on?

Aier Eye Hospital affiliated to Wuhan University kindly reminds you: This is not a "little wing", it is pterygium, an eye disease. Everyone must treat it with caution! Many patients did not pay enough attention to it at first, and even mistook pterygium for cataracts, and waited until the meat was "mature" before removing it. When pterygium grows to a certain extent, it will cause vision loss and affect life.

Pterygium

A very common eye disease

The incidence rate is extremely high

What is pterygium

Pterygium is a chronic inflammatory lesion caused by external stimuli. It is a piece of white flesh that grows from the corner of the eye and slowly progresses toward the pupil area in the center of the eye. It can occur in one or both eyes.

What are the dangers of pterygium

Because it is a piece of fat that grows out, it is very harmful to vision. Pterygium starts to grow from the corner of the eye, progresses slowly at first, and the patient has no obvious symptoms. When the pterygium gradually begins to cover the cornea, it will affect vision, causing astigmatism and decreased vision. If the pterygium continues to grow and begins to cover the pupil in the center of the cornea, it will cause blindness.

How to tell if you have pterygium

The diagnosis of pterygium is very simple. It can be diagnosed by just looking at its appearance. Pterygium is mostly triangular and invades the cornea, with the tip pointing inwards, pointing to the pupil. Pterygium can cause some discomfort, such as foreign body sensation, tearing, and affect the appearance. It may be accompanied by symptoms of conjunctivitis such as red eyes and eye pain. Therefore, if you find that you have pterygium, you must go to a professional ophthalmology hospital for examination and treatment in time.

Treatment of pterygium

The "Jingzhi" pterygium surgery performed by the Aier Eye Hospital affiliated to Wuhan University (Wuhan Aier Eye Hospital, Hubei General Hospital of Aier Eye Hospital Group) is based on individual differences of patients. It combines traditional pterygium excision with "one-person-one-style individualized" biological amniotic membrane transplantation. Compared with traditional procedures, it is more delicate, more comfortable, more beautiful, and has a lower recurrence rate. Pterygium surgery is afraid of recurrence, adhesion of eyelids and eyeballs, and damage to healthy conjunctiva. The "Jingzhi" pterygium surgery can solve these problems well.

Advantages of pterygium surgery

Director Wu Shangcao of the Cornea and Ocular Surface Diseases Department of Wuhan University Aier Eye Hospital kindly reminds you:

As long as pterygium affects vision, appearance or causes discomfort, it should be treated and never ignored. The longer pterygium grows, the more turbid it becomes, which can cause corneal deformation, affect vision, and have the risk of blindness. Even surgery is difficult to recover.