Did you know that photography is a source of valuable information about your child's eye health? When Tara T. posted a photo of her three-year-old daughter on Facebook, friends on the social network told her that the glow in the girl's eyes was a sign of an abnormality. As a result, the baby was diagnosed with a rare eye disease that can lead to blindness, but thanks to early diagnosis, her vision was preserved.
Today we take more photos than ever and share them on social media. Paying close attention to children's photos can actually clue us in to both common and rare vision problems signaled by the reflection of the camera flash off the retina, also known as the "red reflex."
What is a thorn
Leukoma (sore) of the cornea of the eye is scar regenerated connective tissue, which is formed during the healing process of all kinds of damage to the cornea. In essence, a thorn is a scar. The pathology can affect one or both eyes at once. Since epithelial cells and protein structures participate in regeneration, the spot becomes opaque, unlike corneal cells.
Due to the appearance of leukoma, it happens:
- Congenital - a child is immediately born with an eyesore that forms in the womb.
- Acquired - appears during life under the influence of various factors on the body or cornea.
- Age-related - aging of tissues and cells of the cornea in old age can provoke corneal dystrophy, the final result of which is a cataract.
Based on the volume of space occupied, leukoma can be:
- With a central location - the spot covers the most convex part of the cornea, while blocking the pupil. This form is often confused with cataracts.
- Peripheral location is the initial stage of the disease, which may be subtle and cause virtually no discomfort to the patient.
- Total, continuous cataract - occurs with significant, deep damage to the cornea, with the risk of compromising the integrity of the orbit.
By severity:
- Mild degree - translucent, barely noticeable spots, imperceptible to the patient.
- Medium degree - the spots are visually noticeable, compacted, and have a distinct white color.
- Severe degree - vascularized corneal cataract, the process of germination of the spot by the vascular network. The cornea itself does not have vessels, but is nourished by microelements found in the intraocular fluid, this ensures its transparency. The epithelial cells from which the cataract is formed do not have this ability, so they actively develop their vascular network, which is clearly visible against the background of the white spot.
Complications of leukoma:
- impaired visual acuity due to the spot leads to strabismus, loss of binocular vision, optic nerve atrophy, amblyopia, and complete blindness;
- scarring of deep lesions can lead to cataracts or blockage of the outflow of intraocular fluid in the anterior chamber and glaucoma (chronic and acute attack);
- the addition of inflammation can contribute to the degeneration of leukoma into oncology and removal of the eyeball.
How to distinguish leukoma from cataracts
The clinical picture of a centrally located leukoma, before vascularization, is very similar to a cataract. The main distinguishing feature of these two pathological processes is the clear visibility of the iris. With cataracts, the lens becomes cloudy, and it is located behind the iris, so it is clearly visible. The thorn affects the upper layer of the eye; neither the iris, nor the pupil, nor the lens are visible through it.
What is the character and health of people based on eye color?
So, what does eye color say about a person’s character and health?
Blue or gray eye color and human character
Personal characteristics
No matter how attractive these people may appear in the eyes of others, they are still often perceived as timid and weak.
This misconception may stem from the cuteness they exude due to the blue in their irises. However, the truth is different. Blue-eyed and gray-eyed people are strong, both physically and mentally, and can boast of an extremely rich inner world.
These are naturally intelligent and temperamental individuals who strive for self-improvement. Blue-eyed people do not like change, especially if it does not happen according to their will.
Interestingly, owners of eyes of this range are less susceptible to bad mood and depression than owners of dark iris color. This is explained quite simply: eyes with less pigment (blue and gray) are more sensitive to light and more easily perceive and process images.
People with lighter eyes also produce less melatonin in the fall and winter. Melatonin is a hormone produced by the body that helps us enter sleep mode. Some scientists believe that overproduction or imbalance of this hormone causes people to feel low, lethargic, and depressed.
Health status
People with blue or gray eyes are more likely to suffer from throat, nose and ear problems, making them prone to colds and respiratory illnesses. They often suffer from inflammation of the mucous membrane of the digestive system, kidney and joint problems.
Green eye color and human character
Personality Features
Do you, like many other people, think that green eyes give a special mystery to their owners? This color is also considered the rarest: it is found in only 2% of people on the planet, and most often in Northern and Central Europe. However, they can be found in southern Europe and Western Asia.
Green-eyed people are brave and determined. They have developed leadership qualities and a very strong sense of justice. They are responsive and ready to help anyone who is in trouble. They do not tolerate lies and betrayal.
However, often people with green eyes differ from others in their sharp, capricious character. They flare up easily, but it all goes away quickly for them.
Health status
If your eyes are purely green, iridologists advise paying more attention to the health of the excretory and muscular systems. People with such eyes often experience cold symptoms, as well as indigestion and various ailments associated with the digestive system. Recommendations for them include more physical activity and sports, which improve muscle tone and increase endurance.
Multi-colored, variegated eye color and human character
Personality Features
Multi-colored eyes belong to people with a very romantic psyche, men and women who believe in eternal love and deep relationships.
Usually they are sweet, cheerful, good-natured. They are gullible, which often plays a bad joke on them. Compassionate and gentle, they are ready to lend a hand to anyone who needs it. These are people with broad souls who forgive easily.
Health status
As for colored eyes, iridologists first identify which color they are more inclined to. Dominant and additional colors are determined and recommendations are given on them.
Generally speaking, owners of different-colored eyes are predisposed to diseases of the liver, gall bladder and spleen. At a later age, they may develop diseases related to the circulation of fluid in the body and lymph.
Causes
An eyesore can form due to many reasons (traumatic, inflammatory or viral), the main effect of which is damage to the structure of the corneal cells. Childhood and adult causes are almost the same, with the exception of congenital or age-related forms of corneal leukoma.
The cause of the congenital form is viral or bacterial intrauterine diseases of the fetus. Aggressive infections transmitted to the child at birth from the mother can also cause the development of pathology.
The age-related form develops in older people due to the natural aging processes. The main sign of the onset of this process is blurred vision immediately after sleep, which goes away within half an hour. This symptom indicates the possible development of corneal dystrophy, the complication of which often leads to leukoma.
The development of a cataract (leukoma) in the human eye, the main reasons:
- Viral and infectious diseases - chlamydia, syphilis, HIV, tuberculosis.
- Herpes virus.
- Keratitis is frequent inflammation of the cornea, accompanied by the formation of ulcers.
- A common cause in children is injuries to the visual apparatus: debris, sand, dirt, dust, careless games.
- Eye burns - due to exposure to chemicals, temperature, ultraviolet radiation, quartz treatment.
- Exposure to radiation.
- Inflammatory diseases of the visual apparatus - blepharitis, trachoma, conjunctivitis, stye, chalazion.
- As a complication of surgical intervention in the eye tissue, after healing of surgical incisions.
- Incorrectly selected contact lenses, which irritate and injure the eyes.
- Transition of eye infections into a chronic form, undertreatment and neglect of processes.
- Tumor-like neoplasms, both malignant and benign.
Cataract
Cataract is a disease in which there is partial or complete clouding of the lens of the eye. If the lens loses its transparency, it stops transmitting light, which leads to deterioration of vision up to its complete loss. Cataracts are manifested by the following symptoms:
- unclearness and vagueness of vision;
- photosensitivity;
- doubling of objects;
- flashes and glare before the eyes, which appear mainly at night.
Both drug therapy and surgical treatment (cataract removal) can be offered as treatment.
Symptoms and diagnosis
Leukoma of the eye, or clouding of the cornea, is usually visible to the naked eye. It is very rare for patients to see an ophthalmologist in the early stages of leukoma. The asymptomatic course is to blame. Unfortunately, the thorn begins to bother the patient only at the stage of physical blocking of the field of vision.
Symptoms of eyesore:
- increased photosensitivity;
- the appearance of whitish spots on the cornea of any location;
- deterioration of visual acuity;
- redness of the mucous membrane;
- tearfulness;
- sensation of a foreign body, specks in the eye;
- decreased field of view;
- blur, hazy image;
- the appearance of a difference in the clarity of the image obtained by the right and left eyes;
- at the site of leukoma formation, the cornea loses its shine, becomes dull, with further bulging;
- there is practically no night vision in the affected eye;
- the spot has different thickness, transparency, asymmetrical arrangement, somewhat reminiscent of a cloud.
Medical diagnostic procedures:
- visual inspection;
- biomicroscopy;
- visual acuity test;
- slit lamp examination;
- diagnostics of refractive quality;
- fundus examination;
- biopsy, if necessary;
- ophthalmoscopy;
- Ultrasound, MRI, angiography of the eye.
How to cure a person's eyesore
Treatment for eyesores in people depends on the stage, form and underlying cause of the disease. As mentioned above, due to late manifestations of already formed leukoma, most often, in order to remove the eyesore, they resort to surgical operations.
Basic methods of treating cataract:
- Medication.
- Conservative and cosmetic.
- Folk remedies.
- Surgical.
Drug treatment
Occurs in the early stages of leukoma, when visual acuity and function are preserved. The main emphasis should be on the cause, the complication of which was the thorn. Eye drops and ointments are used to resolve scars, stimulate regeneration, antibacterial therapy, relieve inflammatory symptoms, and activate metabolic processes.
Popular drugs:
- "Actovegin";
- "Lidaza";
- "Balarpan";
- "Korneregel";
- dionine solution;
- potassium iodide;
- "Hypromellose";
- yellow mercury ointment.
Conservative-cosmetic method
Suitable for a formed cataract, the location of which does not affect the patient’s vision, but causes enormous cosmetic discomfort. In addition to drug therapy, physiotherapy and cosmetic colored lenses are added, which completely hide the thorn.
The most popular types of physiotherapy are:
- diathermy;
- diathermocoagulation;
- iontophoresis with iodine;
- heat of high frequency currents;
- low frequency iontophoresis.
Surgery
This is a radical way to get rid of a person’s eyesore. Used only when indicated for loss of vision. The operation (keratoplasty) is performed under local or general anesthesia. It is possible to partially excise small spots on the cornea or completely replace it with a donor one. Any person can be a donor; the cornea does not have blood vessels, so it easily takes root without attempts at rejection. The main problem with this method is the difficulty in finding a donor.
Traditional methods
Treatment of leukoma at home using alternative medicine is possible only in the early stages of the disease and strictly with the permission of an ophthalmologist. As for children, traditional medicine is inappropriate here.
Effective methods of folk treatment for cataracts:
- A decoction of eyebright herb - pour three tablespoons of the herb into a liter of boiling water and let it brew for two hours. Take 100 ml three times a day.
- Mix a tablespoon of whey and honey, dilute with 30 ml of water. Instill the solution in the morning and evening.
- A weak solution of sea salt is used for rinsing with a hypertonic, stretching effect.
- Aloe juice is very popular. The crushed leaf of the plant must be squeezed through gauze and instilled 3 times a day.
- To wash the eyes, use decoctions of chamomile, sage, plantain, and birch leaves.
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Recently, rumors about strange children with black eyes are increasingly appearing in the media.
Those who have encountered them say that they experienced real mystical horror when communicating with them. Many are sure that these are not people. The first person who decided to write about them was journalist Brian Beutler. 16, 1998, at around 10 p.m., he stopped in a well-lit movie theater parking lot to fill out a check for the Internet. Suddenly someone knocked on his car window. These were two boys about 13 years old. One of them turned to the journalist, explaining that they wanted to watch a film, but forgot their money at home. Would he do them a favor and take them home?
It seemed that the guys looked absolutely normal, but a terrible, inexplicable fear began to arise in Betler’s soul. Something in their behavior, in their speech (only one boy spoke, and he spoke not like a teenager, but like an adult, confidently and without embarrassment), in their movements was very strange and alarming. Brian suddenly realized that the movie they supposedly wanted to watch had started about an hour ago and was about to end. He did not want to let the children into the car, but he realized that his hand, disobeying him, was reaching out to open the door.
When their eyes met, Brian froze in horror: the children's eyes were coal black. The pupils and white iris were missing. All black eyeballs. For just a moment, Brian looked away. But this was quite enough for him to come to his senses. The journalist pulled back his hand. And the boys spoke again: “Come on, Mister, we won’t do anything to you, we don’t have weapons, let us in. We can't come in until you say we can. Let us in!” Through incredible efforts, Betler shook off his stupor and pressed on the gas. The car started moving. Brian looked around - there was not a soul in the parking lot.
“I believe I was in danger, and I believe it came from something extraordinary. What I experienced then was one of the most terrible events in my life, and I don’t have the slightest desire to experience something like that again,” Brian repeated more than once.
In 2005, a similar story happened to a 47-year-old woman named Tee, who worked at a real estate agency ( https://paranormal.about.com/library/blstory_november04_30.htm ) . Over the years of working with people, she has developed phenomenal intuition. One day, a guy knocked on her office door. He opened the door and greeted the woman, but did not enter the room. He looked about 17-18 years old. The young man said that he needed a small apartment.
But Ti hardly heard him. She later said: “I remember suddenly feeling terrible fear as soon as I saw his eyes. Goosebumps crawled down my spine, I just trembled! As much as I work, I don’t remember this ever happening to me. I couldn't look him straight in the eyes. It seemed to me that I was going to die now. He didn’t approach me, he just stood outside the threshold and waited for me to invite him in or take him to look at a vacant apartment. He talked to me normally, and I slammed the door in his face. I had the feeling that I was in mortal danger. And all this is because of his eyes. If I had looked at them a little longer, I probably wouldn’t have been able to close the door. And after that I shook for several more hours.
Then I called my daughter at work and told her everything. It was she who explained to me that these are the so-called children with black eyes. They walk around and ask to be invited to enter a house or car. But such meetings end in death. Here in Portland, Oregon, I have heard of two such cases. I’m still scared when I remember” (https://repin.info/secret/Mystical_horror_black_eyed-eyewitness).
Many have tried to explain the phenomenon of black-eyed children as someone's strange jokes involving putting on black contact lenses. However, the fact that all people upon meeting them felt numbness and horror even before noticing their black soulless eyes makes such an explanation incomplete.
David Weatherly collected - Eyed Children.” Everyone who has met children talks about the same thing: inexplicable horror, some kind of black energy emanating from them, which causes an unconscious desire to hide or run away. Moreover, this also applies to the bravest and strongest individuals. People are sure that these children are not children at all, but some creatures from another world, predators who took on the appearance of children in order to gain trust more easily.
These children are often dressed in inappropriate clothing. Sometimes it is of an outdated cut, or completely unsuitable for the weather. The “child” may be wearing light clothing in extreme cold, and although he asks to go inside because of the cold, he does not show any reaction to the cold. There is not even steam coming out of their mouths, as if they are not breathing. Some smelled a rotten smell emanating from them. The children speak without slang, in a clear and somewhat clerical language, monotonously, almost without emotion, repeating the same phrases, trying to be let in. When contact is interrupted, they seem to dissolve into thin air, leaving no trace behind.
There is quite a lot of evidence of encounters with them. They always knock on a door or window and, under various pretexts, ask to be let into a car, apartment, house, hotel room or cabin. However, there are only two known cases so far of a person letting them in. Why only 2? Because those who let them in can no longer bear witness. The two who let us in changed their minds very quickly and reacted quickly. Others were not so successful.
In the first case, a woman stopped at a local store after work to buy milk. Her young son remained in the car in the back seat. When the mother returned, she set off, looked at her son in the mirror and suddenly saw a strange boy with black eyes near her son. The woman was very scared and immediately stopped, jumped out of the car, opened the back door and grabbed her son from the car. In panic, she and her child ran into the store. When store employees came out to inspect her car, no one was nearby. The woman refused to go into her car. Then her husband came in response to a call. He gave her his car and drove home in her car. A few miles later he had an accident and was taken to the hospital. The son became very ill, and the doctors could not determine his illness because the symptoms changed every day. After prayers, the child and his father recovered. The child said that the boy with black eyes asked to take him home with him so that they could play together, and he allowed the boy to get into the car.
In the second case, a man was sitting at home alone in the evening watching TV when he heard a knock on the door. He opened the doors, there were two boys on the porch, both looking down. The taller one asked if they could come in, they were lost and the other boy wanted to go to the toilet. The man thought that the place here was such that it was easy to get lost, and that they were looking at the floor out of embarrassment, although the one who spoke spoke calmly and very confidently. The owner allowed them to enter, and the one who wanted to go to the toilet went straight upstairs. For some reason, the man did not find this strange at the time, since toilets are often located on the second floor. He told the second one that the phone was further down the corridor, and he thanked him. And when the man escorted the boy to the telephone, a disgusting feeling of some kind of danger looming over him suddenly fell upon him, he began to tremble. The boy suddenly stopped. The owner asked if everything was okay? The boy turned to him and looked at him with his empty eye sockets. They had no soul. Emptiness and evil emanating from him. The owner was so scared that he couldn’t even scream. As he turned to run away, he saw another boy at the other end of the corridor. The man began to lose control. The boys were approaching him. The one who was closer said that they were sent to pick him up (English: collect - collect, as they collect some things). The man, trying not to look at their faces, pushed himself into one of the rooms and slammed the doors. He was in severe shock and did not understand what was happening around him. For about an hour he stood propping up the door, until he finally decided to break through the back door, into the garden, and over the fence to the neighbor. Armed, they returned to the house together, but no one was there (https://parational.com/black-eyed-children-let-them-in/).
The author warns not to open doors and windows when someone knocks, because simply opening them can be taken as an invitation. Who are these children? Creatures from a parallel world? Aliens? Demons who created human bodies for themselves? Most likely this is a new generation of Nephilim - the army of Satan.
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Prevention
The diagnosis of “eyesore” does not have specific prevention, since the reasons for its origin are partly random and cannot be predicted. By following simple general rules, it is possible to avoid not only cataracts, but also many other eye pathologies.
Prevention methods:
- Timely treatment of general and local inflammatory processes of the body and eye.
- Wear eye protection when performing hazardous activities.
- Hardening the body, visiting baths or saunas.
- Don't look at the welding, wear sunglasses, and maintain good eye hygiene.
- Healthy eating, vitamins, walks in the fresh air.
- Regular visits to the ophthalmologist, preventive examinations.
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Why can you recognize your personality by your eye colors?
We have all heard that eyes are the mirror of the human soul.
It is also true that with just one expressive glance we can touch the heart of the one we are in love with. However, some eyes are considered more magnetic and attractive than others, and their color is the reason for this. You will probably be surprised if we tell you that among the favorites are blue-eyed and green-eyed people. The reason is that they are less common than multi-colored and brown eyes.
Although brown eyes predominate in most countries of the world, there are regions where the majority of the population has blue or green eyes. For example, in Ireland, Scotland and Iceland, almost 90% of the population has this range.
What is even more interesting is that there is a whole science of iridology, according to which the color of the iris can tell what the weaknesses of our body are and what diseases we are predisposed to. And, although eye color depends entirely on genes, some psychologists associate certain colors with specific character traits.
How seriously can such an addiction be taken? A study was conducted at the University of Orebro (Sweden) to determine whether there is a connection between eye color and personality.
Scientists have concluded that the same genes that determine the color of the iris form the central lobe of the cerebral cortex. Therefore, it is understandable that people with the same eye color behave very similarly.