Hello, Welcome to Dr. Lee's Sinus School
Here you will learn fundamental knowledge on sinusitis and rhinitis
and several methods that will heal chronic nasasl problems through
oriental medicine.
I am a graduate of Kyunghee University of Oriental Medicine Department, which is the
oldest oriental medical school in Korea and have been treating patients focusing on
nasal problems for 25 years.
Three years ago I opened up a sinus school and since then students from medical school, patients around the world and medical doctors participated in my sinus school camp.
Today let me tell you about common myths and facts about the nose = )
Question: Can eye discharge be used as an index of nasal conditions?
A.
Eye discharge must be looked for when the eyes are being examined. Particularly, if there are changes in the texture or the amount of the discharge, it calls for special attention.
If the discharge is severe enough to impair the vision, epidemic conjunctivitis can be suspected. Accordingly, the infection must be treated immediately. If the discharge resembles yellowish pus, it is most likely to be acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis. In severe cases, blood is detected in the discharge.
In case of tiny lumps developed around the eyes and heavy eye discharge accounted, allergic conjunctivitis might be suspected.
As seen above, eye discharge can develop under many different conditions and its appearances may vary as well. In other words, eye discharge is developed by an infection in the conjunctiva and it could be an index to determine the condition of the eye.
But what we would like to discuss now is the usual eye discharge we have in our ordinary days. People with frequent eye discharge assume others might have the same problem. It becomes a habit that they remove their eye discharge first in the morning.
It can be seen children having more than usual amount of discharge when they caught the common cold. When sinus cold disappears, the eye discharge goes away at the same time. This means the eye discharge is not different from nasal discharge or crust in their composition.
Previously, we have covered the lacrimal drift is connected with the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses, draining water from the eyes by air ventilation in the nasal passages and sinuses, making these truly a dynamic structure.
In cases of rhinitis and sinusitis, there are no negative pressure created in the lacrimal drift, making nasal secretion to back flow to the end of the lacrimal drift. When it dries up by the body heat, it becomes yellowish crust. Eye discharge is neither a byproduct of tear nor dust in the air. It is the mucus secreted from the nasal mucosa flowed backward and dried up.
This happens subtly over night and we see the final product in the morning around the eyes. This is a proof of blocked paranasal sinuses. So this could be interpreted as a dysfunction of the paranasal sinuses, not the lacrimal drift itself.
The sinuses are congested, being inadequate to generate negative pressure in the lacrimal drift, hence, it causes the back flow. When sinus cold or sinusitis are severe, secretion in the nose flows backward directly, making a large lumps of discharge, but when there is no apparent nasal discharge is detected, the size of the eye discharge is smaller. This can be explained by "sticky" mucus from the nasal cavity flows backward and concentrates to become eye wax. Therefore, the eye discharge could be an indicator for the condition for the eyes but also at the same time for the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses as well.
You can visit me in my clinic, located in
Goheung area.
Jellanamdo Goheung Podu myeon Jeongja gil 18
Tel: 82-61-832-6031
Office Hours: From Tues - Sun
전남 고흥군 포두면 정자길 18
(전남 고흥군 포두면 길두리 1085-4번지)
TEL. 061-832-6030
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