#trichiasis

[hrtnsolofytube]

Click here to support Gidget's Trichiasis Surgery organized by Sydney Turner

Please, please help my puppy ❤

[rp-kat]

Hermh - Before the Eden - Awaiting the Fire

2004

[raideo]

finally vanquished the fucken eyelash thats been scraping around in my eye all damn week

[fuzzysparrow]

Which part of the body is ingrown in the condition of trichiasis?

Trichiasis is a term for eyelashes that grow backwards toward the eye. It can be caused by infection, inflammation, congenital defects, and trauma. If not treated, it can cause blindness.

Temporarily removing the eyelashes by plucking them gives some relief until the hairs grow back. Laser treatment or surgery are more effective at removing the affected eyelashes permanently.

Dogs, especially English Cocker Spaniels, can also suffer from trichiasis. Whereas the condition usually affects a human's lower eyelid, trichiasis tends to affect the upper eyelids of dogs.

Trichiasis is the leading cause of infectious blindness in the world. It is more prevalent in poorer countries with limited health care and sanitation.

[mthakurstuff]

Visit Eye Plastic Associates for Misdirected Lashes (Trichiasis) Treatment in Fairfax, Alexandria, Annandale, Arlington and McLean, VA.

[raideo]

because apparently i love posting nasty tmi health problem stuff on my blog for lord knows who to read- I wrote a rant about my eyelashes stabbing my eye underneath the cut but like- i know eye stuff is a serious phobia or squick so I at least decided to put it under a cut X’D

god so I have MODERATE (not severe, but not mild lmfao) trichiasis right, and every once in a while an eyelash just decides it wants to grow out at the exact angle that shoves it into my eye, sometimes just scraping but at worst STABBING- and for the past 4 fucking days I have been going god damn insane because I felt something scratching on my EYEBALL but I could not see any eyelashes to even pluck them- so I resigned myself to worrying that maybe I got a piece of sand or dirt underneath my eyelid and it wasnt working itself out- so I got eye wash, and that didn’t help.  So this morning I cant fuckin take it anymore and im about to full on turn my eyelid INSIDE OUT to see if i can find any debris-

and the light hits these SHITTY LITTLE INVISIBLE BABY EYELASHES JUST SO and I see that they are literally growing so that the ends of them stab me in the FUCKING EYEBALL and I sit there holding my eye open in front of the bathroom mirror- trying to grab almost completely invisible ghost eyelashes with the tweezers- and i just ended up opening and closing them in front of my water line until they grabbed something and I think I finally fucking got them out

words cannot describe how nice it is not to have tiny bastard hairs puncturing my eyeball all hours of the day and night- and there’s still some irritation (because its been like most of a week that these things have been scratching my corneas) but good thing I bought the wash and drops lmfao

[raideo]

I remember finding this out last summer because it would CONSTANTLY feel like something was in my right eye and I’d be rubbing it all the time and tearing up and waking up with sore eyes, it’d especially hurt when I was going to and from my summer class, and then one day I finally looked and it was like “oooh there’s like 5 fucking wonky eyelashes TOUCHING MY FUCKING EYE”

[raideo]

Actual scientific explanation of whats going on with my eyes.

*all my eyelashes are sitting at the eyelid bar* 

eyelash 1 to eyelash 2: AY AY… DON'T FUCKIN TOUCH ME.

eyelash 2: well maybe if you wouldn't take up so much SPACE ITD BE EASIER FOR ME *gets off barstool*

eyelash 1: YOU GOT SOMETHIN'A SAY TO ME TOUGH GUY?

eyelash 3: EY EY FELLAS NO FIGHTING...

eyelash 1: GET OUTTA HERE PIPSQUEAK THIS AINT UR FIGHT.

eyelash 3: WHO YOU CALLIN PIPSQUEAK, ASSCRUMB? 

*all out bar fight*

*some eyelashes fall dead on the floor*

*the floor is my fucking eyeball*