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my dr.said i need to evaluate my right eye for Iridocyclitis or iritis is this serious?


Both of these conditions can have serious problems if untreated .

It sounds like your doctor has detected some early indicators of an issue. It seems to be readily treated.  (+ info)

Help with Iridocyclitis and the NHS (UK) please?


My daughter has this condition and it recurres constantly. She is 28 years old and she's had this now for 5 years with attacks every three or four months.

Every time she has an episode we have to go to A&E and wait and wait and wait to see the doctors in "Eye" part of the hospital. We're in the UK and this is how the system works, it's a real pain, because we have to do it SO often.

We have asked our GP to prescribe the steroid eye drops (Pred-fort) directly the symptoms appear, but he says he cannot, and that we HAVE to go to the eye hospital for them to look into the eye and check that it's really iridocyclitis and then get prescribed the drops and then do a course of treatment and go back for a follow up etc etc.

Surely to goodness there is another way! All this waiting in A&E to get seen every time is too much...

Maybe there is something else we can do to relieve or prevent this condition?
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I have some sympathy for your GP and understand his and your quandary. It is generally accepted that GPs should not INITIATE steroid eye drops without reference to an eye surgeon and I expect this is causing him some concern and confusion and is why he is unwilling to prescribe. However in a patient with a relapsing remitting condition like iridocyclitis it is generally considered reasonable to re-prescribe. Discus this with him, and if he has any worries he should contact the local eye consultant about your case and get some reassurance as to what is safe management.  (+ info)

About ulcerative colitis?


Which extraintestinal manifestation of ulcerative colitis doesnot improve after colectomy:
1-pyoderma gangrinosum
2-erythema nodosum
3-sclerosing cholangitis
4-arthritis
5-iridocyclitis
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hello peri, i am a crohn's pt. which is a type of IBD like ulcerative colitis. Once you have a total colectomy and permanent ileostomy, you are considered cured with no need for medications any more. Folks with Crohn's are more prone to the 5 symptoms you mentioned as well as recurrence at the surgical site.

For more accurate info check out the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation's site. They have a live chat and a hotline that is run by healthcare experts during the week as well as an open forum where folks w/IBD can post questions to others in the same situation.

hope this helps.  (+ info)

Difference in perception of colour?


Some months ago I was diagnosed with uveitis, or iridocyclitis. It got pretty serious, and after I was rid of it, it came back once more - not that strongly, but there was still an inflammation. Now I've been uveitis free for a month or so, but I've recently noticed that the colour vision is slightly altered in the hopefully healed eye - it's greyer, and not that light. Not much, only enough to notice it when I compare. Anybody experienced the same? Anybody know what this is, and if it's dangerous or if it can be fixed?

I must add that I never compared my eyes' colour vision differences before I got uveitis, so for all I know the difference might have been there all along... Is a such difference common in the eyes?
If it matters at all; I've been dripping the eye with Spersadex on various occasions, mostly when I either fear that the uveitis is back (which it isn't, but I feel better), or when I feel tired. My experience with uveitis taught me that tired eyes, less than sufficent hydration and exessive gaming (which I do a lot) more than likely either worsened or caused the symptoms the last time...

My doctor told me to use Spersadex "now and then", so I decided I'd use it when I felt like it after the three weeks with four drips per day...

Don't know if this matters at all, but I'm not educated on the matter, so what the hell do I know.
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Colour vision processing in the primate visual system is initiated by absorption of light by three different spectral classes of cones. Consequently, colour vision is described as being trivariant or trichromatic, and initial psychophysical studies demonstrated that colours could be matched by the use of three different primaries. In 1802, Thomas Young proposed a model that perception of colour can be coded by three principal colour receptors rather than thousands of colour receptors coding for individual colours.
http://webvision.med.utah.edu/KallColor.html  (+ info)


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