NON-INFECTIOUS UVEITIS

TYPES

There are two types of non-infectious uveitis:

• Infectious uveitis
• Non Infectious uveitis

Non-infectious uveitis can result from eye damage or an infection elsewhere in your body that causes inflammation. In case you have one of these following conditions, you’re bound to get uveitis:

• AIDS
• Behcet’s syndrome
• Shingles
• Multiple sclerosis
• Psoratic arthritis
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Sarcoidosis
• Tuberculosis
• Ulcerative colitis

SYMPTOMS

Sometimes, doctors won’t recognize what’s causing noninfectious uveitis. It can affect one or both eyes. Symptoms may come on rapidly. In case you see any of these, see an eye specialist immediately:

• Change in vision
• Dark floating spots (floaters)
• Eye pain
• Redness of the eyes
• Light sensitivity
• Swelling

DIAGNOSIS

In diagnosing non-infectious uveitis, an eye specialist called an ophthalmologist will give you an eye test and get some information about your symptoms, such as:

• Have you ever experience pain? Where?
• How is your vision? Have you seen any changes?
• Is it difficult for you to look directly at light or be in a brilliant place?

Additionally, he or she may also:

• Test your vision to check whether your vision has changed
• Use a magnifying lens and a thin light emission to check the different parts of your eye.
• Do blood tests, X-rays, or other lab tests to check for therapeutic conditions that may be connected to uveitis

TREATMENT

It’s essential to treat uveitis immediately so it won’t progress to other major issues that will result to glaucoma, cataract or loss of vision.

Your eye specialist may give you steroid eye drops to reduce the swelling, redness, and pain.