Blepharitis refers to inflammation of the eyelid edges/margins where eyelashes grow. The factors that are linked with the cause of blepharitis include clogging of the oil glands at the base of eyelashes, allergic reactions, bacterial infection, seborrhoeic dermatitis, rosacea, and eyelash mites.

Blepharitis may also be caused by other eye problems, such as dry eye syndrome or allergic problems. Sometimes patient have both dry eye syndrome and blepharitis at the same time.

Blepharitis an Eyelid Inflammation Symptoms

The condition makes your eyelids red, itchy, and a little swollen. The bases of your eyelashes may look scaly. You might also notice:

• Feeling like something in eye
• A burning sensation in eye
• Sensitivity to light
• Blurry vision
• Dry eyes
• Red eyes
• Watery eyes
• Crusty eyelashes (especially in the morning because During the day, these secretions are partially washed away by the blinking of the eyelids and the flow of tears).

Blepharitis Causes

Things that cause blepharitis include:

• A blocked oil gland on your eyelid
• Hormone problems
• Allergies (either exogenous or endogenous).
• Infection with a virus
• Skin conditions such as seborrheic dermatitis, rosacea, and eczema
• Mites (parasites)
• Unclean personal habits, using dirty linen frequently to clean the eyes (transmitting infection).
• Extension from surrounding areas like chronic conjunctivitis and recurrent dermatitis or chronic dacryocystitis.
• Refractive errors and muscle imbalance.
• Systemic cause for example septic foci in organism.
• Deficiency of vitamin-B complex as a part of the syndrome of angular stomatitis and angular conjunctivitis.
• Rarely specific diseases like syphilis, tuberculosis, leprosy, parasitic and mycotic infections may cause blepharitis.

Blepharitis Diagnosis

Diagnosis depends on patient’s history and characteristic symptoms. In staphylococcal blepharitis, culture of ulcerated lid margin shows S. aureus.

Check thoroughly and closely at patient’s eyelids, eyelashes, and the texture of the skin, use a magnifying device to look at the edges of the eyelids and the openings of the glands there; Check that patient’s eyes are making enough tears, take a sample of material from suffered eyelids to check for infection, type of infection and/or any other cause(s).

Blepharitis an Eyelid Inflammation Treatment

In allopathic way of treatment there’s no cure for blepharitis just manage it by taking care of the eyelids with warm compresses, wash with warm water, wring it out for few minutes few times a day, wash with shampoo, apply pressure on eyelids to squeeze out the pus, artificial tears, antibiotics and antivirals (just to moron the patient), steroids and glucocorticoids, anti fungal medicines etc.

Allopathic researchers are still studying other treatments.

(they have to work hard at least 150 looong years to treat simple diseases).

Blepharitis an Eyelid Inflammation proper Treatment:

Sulphur

Sulphur is a well-indicated medicine for blepharitis with dry crusts in lashes and falling of eyelashes. The inner surface of the eyelids is dry and inflamed. Burning and smarting sensation on the edges of lids with itching is marked with an inclination to rub it. Itching is worse in the evening. Biting sensation in eyes with lachrymation is felt especially in the evening.

Sipea

Muscular asthenopia; black spots in the field of vision; asthenic inflammations, and in connection with uterine trouble. Aggravation of eye troubles morning and evening. Tarsal tumors. Ptosis, ciliary irritation. Venous congestion of the fundus.

Acid Nitrucum

Double vision; sharp, sticking pains. Ulceration of cornea. Gonorrheal ophthalmia, photophobia, constant lachrymation. Syphilitic iritis.

Psoronium

Agglutinated. Blepharitis. Chronic ophthalmia, that constantly recurs. Edges of lids red. Secretion acrid, gummy; surrounded by blue rings; glassy, with pain in them; agglutination in morning. Swelling of lids and of face.

Inflammation of r. eye. Pain in right eye as if it would burst. Right eye feels melting away. Ophthalmia, with pain as from sand in eyes, and lacrimation at night. Sticking: in left eye; pain in right eye better when touched. Pain in eyes with burning, in evening when looking sharply it something, and by candlelight. Pain as from sand, or foreign body (in right eye in evening when closed).

Biting in eyes. Tired in evening as from much reading by candle-light. Lachrymation: towards evening; on looking long at one object. Pimples: like hordeola on upper lid; red, like fresh hordeola on margin of upper lids, and sensation as if something were moving before the eyes, as if one were playing with his fingers before them.

Itching: of right lid; left lower lid, from one side to other; of canthi; inner canthi, with heat. Vision of sparks. All objects in room appear to tremble. Dazzling in evening when walking in street. Vision blurred suddenly.

Thuja Occidentalis

Ciliary neuralgia; iritis. Eyelids agglutinated at night; dry, scaly. Styes and tarsal tumors (Staph). Acute and subacute inflammation of sclera. Sclera raised in patches, and looks bluish-red. Large, flat phlyctenules; indolent. Recurring episcleritis. Chronic scleritis.

Kali Carbonicum

Pressive and tearing pain in eyes. Sensation of biting, of smarting, of burning, and shootings in eyes. Redness and inflammation of eyes, with pain on reading. Swelling of eyes and lids, with difficulty in opening them. Pimples in eyebrows. Swelling (like a bag) between upper eyelids and eyebrows.

Excoriation and suppuration in corners of eyes. White of eye red; capillaries injected. Sensation of coldness of eyelids. Agglutination of eyelids, especially in morning.

Lachrymation. Eyes dull and downcast. Propensity to a fixed look. Spots dancing before sight, on reading and on looking into open air. Rainbow colours, spots (blue or green), and sparks before sight. Vivid and painful brightness before eyes, when closed, extending deeply into brain, in evening after lying down. Photophobia. Dazzling of eyes by daylight.

Pulsatilla

Affections in general appearing on the cornea; margins of the eyelids; dim sightedness, with a sensation as though there were something over the eye which the patient wishes to rub away; amaurosis; cataract.

Pain in eyes as if scratched with a knife. Burning sensation, pressive pain as if caused by sand; or sharp or shooting pain in eyes, or else boring and incisive pain. Burning itching in eyes, chiefly in evening (inducing rubbing and scratching).

Inflammation in eyes and margins of lids (and meibomian glands), with redness of the sclerotica and conjunctiva, and copious secretion of (thick) mucus (and nightly agglutination). Swelling and redness of eyelids. Trichiasis in eyelid.

Styes, especially on upper lid. Crystalline lens clouded and of a greyish colour. Stye with inflammation of sclerotica, and tensive drawing pains on moving the muscles of the face. Dryness of eyes and lids, especially during sleep. Profuse lachrymation, principally in the wind, as well as in open air, in the cold, and in clear, bright daylight. Acrid and corrosive tears.

Abscess near angle of eye, like a lacrimal fistula (discharging pus on pressing it). Nocturnal agglutination of lids. Pupils contracted or dilated. Amaurosis; paralysis of optic nerve. Look fixed and stupid. Dimness of sight, getting warm from exercise.

Cloudiness of eyes and loss of sight, sometimes with paleness of face and inclination to vomit; (all objects present a sickly hue). Loss of sight in twilight, with sensation as if eyes were covered with a band. Sight confused, as if directed through a mist, or as if caused by something removable by rubbing, principally in open air, in evening, in morning, or on waking. Incipient cataract.

Diplopia. Luminous circles before eyes, and diffusion of light of candles. Great sensibility of eyes to light, which causes lancinating pains (and in sunshine).

Staphysagria

Eyes sunken, with blue raised rings around them. Right eye much larger than usual (lids wider open). Pupils dilated. Eyes sleepy, Aching in the eyes, lids, and canthus. Itching in margins of lids.  Itching and biting smarting in internal canthi. Smarting and burning sensation in eyes when writing, on looking at sun, hot water runs out of left eye, scalding cheek and making eye smart.

Violent lancinations in eyes on fatiguing them. Inflammation of eyes, which are surrounded by pimples. Inflammation in margins of the lids. Styes, Steatoma of eyelids (Koch). Nodosities in margins of lids.

Great dryness of the eyeballs and lids. Syphilitic iritis with bursting pain in eyeball, temple, and side of face better from evening to morning and on using eyes by any light.

Laceration of cornea with prolapse of iris (after Aco, After surgery for cataract.). Much purulent dry mucus in canthi. Obstinate catarrh with swollen eyelids (Baehr).

Nocturnal agglutination of eyes. Spasmodic closing of lids. Pain in upper lid better on closing eye. Pain as if a hard substance were beneath left upper lid.

Diminished power of sight. Confused sight, as if water were in the eyes. Black flashes and luminous sparks before eyes. Sparkling before eyes in the dark. Areola round candle in evening.

Tellurium

Cataract. Pterygium. Herpes conjunctiva bulbi; phlyctenules near edge of cornea better from crying. Pustular conjunctivitis with eczema impetiginous on lids and much purulent discharge from eyes; offensive discharge from ears.

Scrofulous inflammation on left upper lid; lachrymation, itching, and pressure in lid. Eyelids thickened, inflamed, covered with pustules; pale red, oedematous, oozing. Feeling as if lashes of lower lid were turned in. Palpebral swelling of left upper lid; ulceration on outer surface of lid, near outer canthus; pain better at night.

Merc Sol

Merc Sol is an effective medicine for blepharitis with a burning sensation in the eyes. Along with this, there is profuse watering from the eyes. The eyelids are red, swollen and thick. The eyelid margins are covered with scabs in some cases. Itching and dry heat are felt in the eyes.

Arsenicum Album

Aching, burning, and shooting pains in the eyes, better by light, as also by the movement of the eyes, accompanied sometimes with a necessity to lie down, or with anguish which does not permit to rest in bed. Eyes inflamed and red, with redness of the conjunctiva, or of the sclerotica, and injection of the veins of the conjunctiva.

Swelling of the eyes. Inflammatory or oedematous swelling of the eyelids. Inflammation of the eyes and lids, with severe burning pains. Inflammation of the inner surface of the eyelids, preventing the opening of the eye.

Great dryness of the eyelids, chiefly in the edges, and on reading. Corrosive tears. Agglutination of the eyelids. Spasmodic closing of the eyelids, sometimes from the effect of light.

Excessive photophobia. Specks and ulcers on the cornea. Eyes convulsed and prominent; look fixed and furious. Pupils contracted. Yellowish colour of the sclerotica. Yellow colour, spots, or white points and sparks before the eyes. Blue colour around the eyes. Weakness, obscuration, and loss of sight. Eyes dull and deep sunk.

Medorrhinum

When eyes were shut, felt as if pulling out of head to one side or other; when open all things seemed to flicker. A blur over things; numberless black, sometimes brown spots dancing over her book/object; sees objects double; things look very small; sees imaginary objects. Neuralgic pain in eyeballs: when pressing eyelids together feels better when rolling them.

Feeling of pain and irritation, and sensations of sticks in eyes, lids, and esp. inner canthi, redness and dryness of lids, congestion of sclerotics and sensation of a cool wind blowing in eyes, especially inner canthi.

Ptosis of outer end of both upper lids, particularly left side, requiring exertion to open them. Decided tendency to irritation of edges of lids. Hardness of upper lid, as if it had a cartilage in it, swelling under eyes.

Rhus Toxicodendron

Pains in eyes on moving ball of eye, pressure and burning sensation in eyes. Eyes fixed, dull, and downcast, smarting in eyes and lids.

Affections of internal surface of eyelids, inflammation of the eyes and lids, with redness and nocturnal agglutination, profuse lachrymation (eyes full of water, blear-eyedness) with oedematous swelling around eyes.

Meibomian glands enlarged, cilia fall out. Photophobia. Bladder-like swelling of the lids, closing the eyes. Swelling (erysipelatous) of whole eye and of surrounding parts.

Rheumatic ophthalmia, particularly of right side eye. Gouty keratitis better in damp, rainy weather, sight dim. Paralytic rigidity of the eyelids; Jerking and quivering of eyes and eyelids. Blue colour about the eyes. Heaviness of the eyelids. Styes; on the lower eyelids. Veil before eyes and weak sight; all objects appear pale.

Silicea

Silicea works well in cases of blepharitis with sticking of eyelids. This is most marked in the morning. Cold air exposure tends to worsen it. Smarting sensation in the eyelids is also felt. It worsens from closing the eyes. In some cases photophobia also accompanies. Pain and sand like sensation in eyes may be there. Pain may be throbbing, tearing, shooting, stinging in nature. Lachrymation may be present that is worse in the open air.

Sanicula

Sight dim, sometimes sees double, or letters run together. Sensation as though a white cloud passed over eyes, with loss of sight and faintness. Eyes feel weak and sore on waking in morning, light painful at first. Eyes burn, exuding a sticky fluid, which in a few hours dries on the margins of the lids, forming white scales.

Burning and smarting of canthi. Lids red and inflamed. Small reddish ulcers on right lower lid, which burn after removal of the yellow scabs. Ulceration of margins of lids, also extending over half right upper lid, with photophobia, itching, and burning.

Awakes with dryness of whole eye and sensation that eyeball is sticking to lid. Catarrhal ophthalmia, with profuse yellow discharge; first left eye, then right. Lids agglutinated in morning. Eyes sore on motion.

Cornea ulcerated. Photophobia. Eyes better at night. Catarrhal conjunctivitis, lids swollen, eyeballs red. Chronic sore eyes. Scrofulous ophthalmia. Eye symptoms aggravates in morning while better noon.

Lachrymation in the wind, in cool air, or from cool application. Great swelling of lids, great effort required to keep them open.

Lycopodium Clavatum

Aching in the eyes, gnawing, burning, and shooting pains in eyes (and lids), especially in evening and by candle and artificial light. Smarting in eyes, sensation of coldness in eyes, evening. Dryness of eyes; and lids; as if dust in them; difficult to open. Smarting and burning. Swelling and painfulness of lids.

Inflammation of the eyes and lids, Stye – Styes on the internal canthus, agglutination of eyelids, especially at night, and lacrimation better during day time, and in a cold wind.

Twitching of the eyelids, troubled sight, as from feather-down before the eyes. Photophobia. Itching in canthi. Dim, hot eyes, the eyes are wide open, insensible to light, fixed.

Sparks before the eyes, in the dark, must wipe mucus from eye in order to see clearly; purulent mucus. Myopia or presbyopia, Hemiopia perpendicularis (sees only left half of objects, especially with right eye).

The characters are confused when reading, obscurity, black spots, glittering, and sparks before eyes.-Eyes dazzled and irritated by candle-light or bulb in evening.

Antimonium Crudum for Blepharitis an Eyelid Inflammation

Shooting in the eyes, red, inflamed eyelids. Inflammation of the eyes, with itching and nocturnal agglutination of the eyelids. Slight oozing of the skin near the external angle of the eye. Humour in the corners of the eyes. Enlargement of the eyes. Photophobia (sensibility of the eyes to the light). Blindness. Chronic sore eyes (specially in children).

Euphrasia

Euphrasia is prepared from a plant Euphrasia Officinalis of the natural order Scrophulariaceae. Euphrasia is very beneficial for manage the redness and watering from eyes in cases of blepharitis. The eyelids are very red and swollen, and there may be burning and biting sensation in the eyes along with grittiness.

Apis Mellifica

Apis Mellifica is useful for Blepharitis an Eyelid Inflammation with a stinging sensation in the eyes. Sometimes burning, scalding, smarting sensation is felt in the eyes. Eyelids tend to feel heavy, are red, swollen and may be itchy too. Irritation and soreness appear in the eyes. Sensitivity to light may also be present in a few cases.

Graphites

Graphites is an excellent medicine for blepharitis with flakiness/crusting at the base of eyelashes. There is marked dryness in the edges of lids with itching and a constant desire to rub the eyes. Eyelids margins are highly inflamed and may stick together especially at the night time. Along with this profuse watering from the eyes may arise. Smarting, burning and biting sensation in the eyes attend the above symptoms.

Argentum Nitricum

Argentum Nitricum is next helpful medicine for blepharitis. In cases needing Argentum Nitricum, there is marked redness of the eyelids and swelling of the eyelid margin. Thick crusts may appear on the lids with swelling. This may be accompanied by sticking of eyelids in the morning. Photophobia may attend too. There may be dryness and heat in the eyes. Complaints may get better in cold air and with cold applications when Argentum Nitricum is required.

Calcarea Sulph

Sees only half an object, Ophthalmia with purulent discharge, ulceration of cornea, eyes protrude.

Petroleum

Petroleum is beneficial for cases of blepharitis where dryness and itching of lids are prominent. There is a need to rub the eyelids frequently. The skin around the eyes is also dry and scurfy. Burning and sticking in the eyes may also appear. In some cases smarting sensation in the eyes is felt.

Argentum Metallicum

Itching in the eyes, and principally in the angles. Swelling and redness of the edge of the eyelids. Stricture of lacrimal duct.

Natrum Mur

Natrum Mur is well-indicated medicine for blepharitis with gritty (sandlike) sensation in the eyes. This is mostly felt during the morning. Along with this, there is marked sensitivity to light. Smarting and burning sensation in the eyes is present. A burning sensation appears that gets worse during the evening time. Eyes remain red with watering and feel sticky in the morning.

Belladonna

Belladonna is prepared from a plant named Deadly Nightshade of the natural order Solanaceae. Belladonna is considered for blepharitis cases with swollen and painful eyelids. Pain, pressive in nature may appear in the eyes. This is most worse on closing the eyes. In some cases, eye movement and light also worsens the pain. Eyes are sensitive to light. Redness and itching in the eyes may be marked too. A sensation of heat and burning in the eyes are prominent. Sand in the eye sensation also appears.

Carbonium Sulph Blepharitis an Eyelid Inflammation

Dim sight, objects fade away, vanishing of sight, dimness of vision with vertigo, dimness of vision as from a fog or mist before the eyes, objects appearing green, then red and foggy.

Diplopia; Complete achromatopsia, contraction of field of vision for white and blue; red and green totally absent.

Central scotoma for red, central scotoma for white and colours, dazzled by bright light, constant flashes and spots before the eyes. Muscae volitantes, appearance as of a spider’s web before the eyes.

Lachrymation, reading brings tears, slight insensibility of the conjunctiva to touch. Pupils dilated and sluggish, fine, floating filaments and specks in the vitreous, deposit of whitish, shining nodules in the macula lutea.

Ischaemia of the optic papilla, atrophy of the optic papilla, optic disc pale, deeply cupped, less transparent than normal, congestion of the optic discs, retinal congestion, arteries and veins tortuous.

Dilation of retinal veins; arteries too small, small zone of circumscribed retinitis along the retinal vessels; blood-vessels have a double contour. Obliged to wink to see clearly vision better in the evening. Pustule on upper lid, itches and burns. Lids heavy; sore on moving; quivering.

Natrum Carb

Natrum Carb is a significant medicine for blepharitis with photophobia (sensitivity to light). Eyes may feel dry along with this. Eyelids are swollen and may also feel heavy. Eyelids may stick together with above features where Natrum Carb is indicated.

Hepar Sulph

Ulcers on cornea. Iritis, with pus in anterior chamber; purulent conjunctivitis, with marked chemosis, profuse discharge, great sensitiveness to touch and air. Eyes and lids red and inflamed. Pain in the eyes, as if pulled back into the head. Boring pain in upper bones of the orbits. Eyeballs sore to touch. Objects appear red and too large. Vision obscured by reading; field reduced one-half. Bright circles before eyes. Hypopyon.