Corneal ulcers are open sores on the layer of the eye that covers the iris and pupil. People who wear contact lenses can be more susceptible to corneal ulcers. A 25-year-old woman nearly lost her eye ...

Conjunctivitis may mimic other types of serious eye conditions such as glaucoma, iritis, keratitis, and corneal ulcer. Typically, conjunctivitis causes only pain, redness, and drainage, with redness ...

Medically reviewed by Bryan M. Wolynski, OD Key Takeaways Eye pain when blinking can be due to infections, dry eyes, ...

Vivian Nosovitsky, 21, had finished another year of traveling abroad when she noticed pain in her eye ...

Tori Spelling recently revealed that she developed an ulcer in her eye due to sleeping in daily contact lenses. A corneal ulcer can include symptoms like a watery and bloodshot eye, severe eye pain, ...

If a patient who wears contact lenses presents with a red eye, it should be assumed that the red eye is related to the contact lens until proven otherwise. The presence of a contact lens on the eye ...

If you wear contact lenses, then you've been told before (many times, probably) that you should never sleep in them. Unfortunately for Today show coanchor Craig Melvin, it took a serious health scare ...

A corneal abrasion is an eye injury caused by a scratch or scrape on the cornea’s surface. A person’s fingernails, contact lenses, or other foreign objects can all cause a corneal abrasion. The cornea ...

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