Eye Diseases That May Be Missed in Online Consultations

I have had a few online consultations.

While they are convenient, I feel they come with considerable limits in ophthalmic care.

For that reason, I ask for in-person exams for follow-up visits whenever possible.

(We will talk it through to do what is best.)

In connection with online first visits, here are conditions that need urgent care on the same day.

» Online first visit

Eye Diseases That May Be Missed in Online Consultations(by symptom)

“Redness”

Uveitis• Redness from keratitis is also possible

* Acute retinal necrosis may be missed

* Infectious keratitis may be missed

* An inflammatory attack from uveitis may be missed

“Redness, eye pain, headache”

* Glaucoma attack(acute angle-closure glaucoma) may be missed

“I hit my eye” / “Something struck my eye hard”

* A retinal tear or retinal detachment may be missed

“Something flew into my eye while I was using an electric mower”

* It may develop into infectious endophthalmitis (a foreign body inside the eyeball)

“Suddenly seeing double / the pupils suddenly differ in size between left and right / sudden strabismus / sudden drooping of the eyelid”

* Cerebral hemorrhage or cerebral infarction may be missed

The diseases marked (*) above

are ones that leave serious loss of vision or visual field unless we can respond quickly based on an in-person exam.

If the cause is a brain disease, it can be life-threatening.

We would like to carry out online consultations carefully as well.

Please feel free to contact us.

[Conditions that need urgent eye care]

○ Detergent got into the eye

» Disinfectant that can cause blindness (sodium hypochlorite)

○ Hit the eye hard

○ No eye pain, but sudden difficulty seeing

○ No eye pain, but the visual field suddenly became partly missing

○ Fell asleep with contact lenses in and the eye pain is getting worse

» Sleeping with contact lenses in

○ Red eye with severe pain

○ A sudden abnormality in an eye that has had surgery　

and so on