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Conjunctivitis with chicken pox, measles, rubella
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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ICD Code 10
- H13.1 Acute conjunctivitis in diseases classified elsewhere.
- H13.2 Conjunctivitis in diseases classified elsewhere.
- H19.2 Keratitis and keratoconjunctivitis in other infectious and parasitic diseases classified elsewhere.
- H19.3 Keratitis and keratoconjunctivitis in diseases classified elsewhere.
- H19.8 Other scleral and corneal lesions in diseases classified elsewhere.
Eye damage occurs in children against the background of a common viral disease. The transmission path is airborne, the source is a sick person.
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Conjunctivitis with chicken pox
The causative agent is the virus Varicella Herpes zoster. Against the backdrop of a sharp rise in temperature and spotty-vesicular skin rash on the face and eyelids, there are photophobia and lacrimation, conjunctival hyperemia and blister rashes on the conjunctiva of the eyelids. Vesicles ulcerate with the formation of small scars. Detachable in the conjunctival cavity is mild, mucous, then purulent. Adjoining keratitis has a superficial point character. The process as a whole is benign.
Conjunctivitis in measles
Conjunctivitis causes paramyxoviruses (of the genus Morbillivirus), the transmission pathway is airborne. Against the background of catarrh of the upper respiratory tract, an increase in body temperature, on the mucous membrane of the cheeks, conjunctiva of the eyelids, white spots appear surrounded by a red rim (Belsky-Filatov-Koplik spots): harbingers of a small-scabulous rash on the skin. The clinical picture of conjunctivitis, which sometimes occurs with a sharp photophobia, blepharospasm and eyelid edema, is supplemented by epithelial keratitis with corneal erosions. With adequate treatment, the prognosis is favorable.
Conjunctivitis for rubella
Conjunctivitis causes the virus of the Togaviridae family . On the background of general clinical manifestations (upper respiratory catarrh, generalized and painful lymphadenopathy, slight increase in body temperature, a small rash in the form of pale pink spots), catarrhal conjunctivitis and superficial keratitis occur. The outcome of the disease is favorable.
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