Eyes are organs of the body is very important. If your eyes are susceptible to interference, then this would be very disturbing activities of the owner. The eyes are the windows of the world. Many illnesses associated with eye problems, one of them is the meat that grows on the eyeball, or that we are familiar with the term pterygium.

Pterygium is a growth of a thin fibrous membrane form of the white part of the eye network (conjunctivitis) and have an enlarged toward the cornea. Pterygium generally do not grow or enlarge, but the disorder can occur up to cover the pterygium corneas. Until now the cause factors are not so clear. But statistically, this disease is much happened out-door workers who do a lot of outdoor activities, to more often exposed by sunlight, wind and dust. Therefore, this disease is more common in the tropics.

Risk factor

• Which is a risk factor is dust, sand and particles carried by the wind. Pterygium rarely suffered by the children.
• Another cause is various irritant substances, genetic factors, allergies, dryness in the eyes, angiogenik factors, and papilomavirus infection.

Pterygium Symptoms

The primary symptoms of this disease are, there was a grain of sand in the eyeball. And when the examination will be found in spots that grow there due to red blood vessels disturbed. Eyes will feel free not to see, red and watery.

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How do I prevent the excessive growth of pterygium?

For prevention, the best step is to avoid risk factors.

• Use sun glasses or a hat when doing outdoor activities.
• Using a special eye drops.
• Our eyes examined regularly to the eye doctor to determine the existence of symptoms or interference with our eyes.

If the pterygium growing, can cause Astigmatism or glare. There pterygium that grows slowly, but there is also growing rapidly. If the pterygium has been covering the center of the cornea, vision will be blurred.

Pterygium Surgery

If forced to, or is there a growing spots in the area of the cornea, especially near the edge of the pupils, then the only way is to do the surgery. For if this problem is left will interfere with the patient’s view. Pterygium retrieval operation is relatively safe. so you do not have to worry about it. Pterygium operation performed with local anesthesia, by way of injecting drugs into the pterygium tissue also given anti-sickness drops. During surgery the patient will not feel pain. Treatment course that does not prevent infection, do not get water for 1 week, do not be exposed to dust, too. The cost is quite cheap surgery. Post operative treatment will usually be given information such as the use of radiation beam B or other therapies.