Blepharitis
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
睑弦赤痒，灼热疼痛，睫毛根部有糠皮样鳞屑
Plain-Language Explanation:
- The eyelid margin (palpebral rim) is red and itchy, which may become more noticeable with blinking or rubbing.
- A burning sensation and pain are felt on the eyelid, as if scalded, causing discomfort.
- Fine, dandruff-like scales can be seen adhering around the base of the eyelashes.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
祛风止痒，凉血清热
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Relieve the irritation that triggers itching, helping the skin stop recurrent itchiness.
- Reduce internal heat, clear heat and fire, and alleviate redness, warmth, and burning sensation.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
患眼痛痒并作，睑弦红赤溃烂，脓血结痂，眵泪胶黏，睫毛稀疏，或倒睫，秃睫
Plain-Language Explanation:
- The affected eyelid may experience both pain and itching, causing a distressing sensation.
- The eyelid margin is red and ulcerated, appearing uneven and broken.
- Discharge contains pus and blood, which form crusts upon drying.
- Eye discharge and tears stick together, with sticky secretions gluing the eyelashes.
- The eyelashes become sparse and appear noticeably reduced in number.
- Trichiasis may occur, where lashes turn inward and irritate the cornea.
- Madarosis may occur, with localized loss of lashes, leaving them sparse or absent.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清热除湿，祛风止痒
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Clear internal fire and eliminate dampness, relieving redness, warmth, sticky sensations, and heaviness.
- Disperse factors that cause itching, easing itch flares and making the skin more comfortable.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
眦部睑弦红赤，灼热刺痒，甚或睑弦赤烂，出脓出血
Plain-Language Explanation:
- The eyelid margin at the corner of the eye becomes red, with a noticeably deepened color.
- The affected area feels a burning sensation with prickly itching, worsening with blinking or rubbing.
- In severe cases, the eyelid margin becomes red and ulcerated, with eroded and inflamed surfaces.
- Local discharge of pus or bleeding may occur, with noticeably increased secretions.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清心泻火，佐以祛风
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Reduce heart fire, easing discomfort such as irritability, oral heat, and facial warmth.
- Help expel wind pathogens, alleviating migratory discomfort and surface-level disturbances, making symptoms more stable.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
睑缘红赤反复发作，皮肤燥裂或有脱屑，痒涩不适
Plain-Language Explanation:
- The eyelid margin repeatedly becomes red, flaring up intermittently.
- The skin may be dry and cracked, or show fine desquamation.
- The eyelids feel itchy and rough, causing overall discomfort.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
养血祛风润燥
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Enhance nourishment to moisten the skin, relieving dryness and tightness.
- Eliminate factors that trigger itching and migratory discomfort, reducing recurrent scratching.
- Increase body fluids, reducing scaling, dry mouth, and dry throat.
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