Allergy Eyes in Children: Types, Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment

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There are many kinds of eye diseases that can interfere with the health of the eyes of children and by their nature, there are two kinds of eye diseases, namely: eye disease is contagious and not contagious. When eye disease is triggered by irritation because bacteria and viruses are generally contagious, while those triggered by allergies are generally non-infectious.

Allergies that occur in the eye is a result of the immune system's reaction to foreign substances coming from outside the eyes. There are several triggers of allergies to the eyes, among others: house dust, mites, chemicals, pollen, and animal fur.

The following types of allergies can affect children:

1. Allergic Conjunctivitis

Allergic conjunctivitis is an allergic reaction in the form of red eyes due to dust mites, animal fur, and pollen that cause inflammation of the conjunctiva. The conjunctiva is the surface mucosa of the eyeball that serves as a defense against antigens and microorganisms from the outside of the eye. These allergies can affect adults and children, but bad habits of children rubbing their eyes with dirty hands or playing on the spot with a lot of dust production can potentially be higher for allergies.

2. Vernal conjunctivitis

Vernal conjunctivitis is a chronic inflammation of the conjunctiva caused by allergies. This disease often attacks boys compared to women. This disease generally affects 10-year-olds who have eczema, asthma, or seasonal allergies. In general, this disease does not only attack the sufferer once, he can attack repeatedly so it takes long-term treatment. And in general, this disease will usually disappear when the patient has started adulthood.

3. Giant Papillary Conjunctivitis

Giant papillary conjunctivitis is an eye allergy that arises from eye irritation with contact lenses. This type of allergy especially affects school children who may replace the use of glasses with the lens of the eye. Beware if when using your child's contact lens to experience the production of eye droppings and many tears, the eyes feel itchy, especially if it comes to swelling of the eye, you should stop the use of contact lenses and replace with glasses.

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4. Contact Dermatoconjunctivitis

Contact dermatoconjunctivitis is an allergy caused by eye drops. Besides being caused by eye drops dermatoconjunctivitis is also caused by the use of cosmetics, but little is possible if the allergy attacks children because of the use of cosmetics. If your child is having treatment with eye drops be sure to use drops as recommended by your doctor do not use false eye drops.

5. Bacterial Conjunctivitis (red eyes)

Bacterial conjunctivitis is an infectious eye disease with conjunctival features red in color and inflammation caused by viruses or bacteria and allergic to chemicals such as air pollution, smoke, and vapors that often affect children.

Causes of Eye Allergy in Children

In the previous discussion has been delivered there are some things that can cause eye allergies in children, including:

1. House dust mites
2. Pollen
3. Animal Fur
4. Food
5. Chemicals (such as air pollution, cigarette smoke, steam, etc.)
6. Eye drops
7. Use of contact lenses

Symptoms of Allergy Eyes in Children

Allergies can attack eyes that have high sensitivity to dust, pollen, or animal fur. Keep eye hygiene especially if your child has eczema, asthma, or seasonal allergies because the child with the disease is more susceptible to vernal conjunctivitis. Here are some symptoms that should be suspected parents to detect the onset of the emergence of allergies in the eyes of children, among others:

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Eyes Feeling Itchy

Itchiness arises when the body produces histamine. Histamine works to help combat the cause of allergies. Itching sometimes occurs when the eyes are in direct contact with an allergen, such as when the eye is in direct contact with the pollen in spring or when the eye is in direct contact with the dust when cleaning the house.

The eyes look reddish

Red-eye color changes are caused by the misdiagnosis of conjunctivitis. The color of red light that arises is not too obvious because the effect of allergies that attack the eyes and redness in this eye can be cured by using eye drops.

Eyes Swell

According to some sources, the cause of allergies can cause the occurrence of eye bags, such as swelling of the lower eyelid. Symptoms of swelling

in this eye generally occurs in children who use the help of contact lenses to replace glasses.

Watery eyes

Another symptom that often appears in children who have allergies in the eyes is the eyes tend to run, it is caused by decreased eye function to respond to dryness in the eye. Allergies can spur the production of white fluid/fluid that often clot and dry in the corner of the eye, so often considered people as eye droppings.

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How to Overcome Allergy Eye in Children

1. Avoid direct contact between the child's eyes with an allergic source.
2. If the patient is allergic to mites/dust in the home use eye protection for children especially when doing activities that are directly related to dust like sweeping.
3. If it is caused by pollen, avoid the possibility of pollen to enter the house or use eye protection when traveling, especially when passing through a place that has a source of pollen.
4. If the source comes from a chemical then avoid direct contact between eyes with chemicals. And if caused by a mismatch when contact lenses are used, discontinue use of contact lenses and replace with glasses first.
5. Keep your child's eyes clean with warm water.
6. Traditionally use treatment with the help of garlic. Wash your face first, especially the eyes and then dry with a clean cloth. Wash the garlic and cut a little at the ends. Gently rub the bottom of the garlic on the lower eyelid. This treatment will indeed cause a sore and slightly itchy effect. Repeat this treatment until allergies heal.
7. Compress the eyes of the child if it appears the itching is disturbing, keep the child's habit to rub the eyes, especially if rubbed with dirty hands.
8. If you can not traditionally do it, do a doctor first. It is likely to be recommended antihistamines (to reduce allergic reactions) and anti-inflammatory or eye drops.

Thus information about allergies in the eyes of children may be useful and always keep the health of your child's eyes.