What's going on with a small white spot in the corner of my eye?

Eyes are the windows to the soul and they play an important role in the human body. The human body understands the outside world through observation with eyes. Sometimes people find that they have small white spots in the corners of their eyes. This situation is very worrying and may affect human vision. Therefore, timely measures need to be taken to treat it. Here we will introduce what is going on when there are small white spots in the corners of the eyes.

Probably eye stones

The multiple hard yellow spots on the conjunctiva of the face are the degeneration products of epithelial cell accumulation and mucus concentration. They never calcify and are conjunctival agglutinations. When they are located deep in the eye, there is no discomfort. However, when they protrude from the conjunctival surface, they irritate the cornea and produce a foreign body sensation, or even cause corneal abrasions and erosions. Under surface anesthesia, it is removed with a sharp knife or foreign body needle. This disease is more common in adults, the elderly, and patients with trachoma and chronic conjunctivitis.

Conjunctival stones are coagulation products of desquamated epithelial cells and degenerative cells accumulated in conjunctival epithelial depressions or deep tubular crypts. They have no or very little calcium deposits and are not true stones.

Conjunctival stones are more common in adults, mainly in patients with chronic eye diseases such as trachoma and chronic conjunctivitis. They often appear on the upper eyelid. There are hard, yellow-white, small dot-like protrusions on the conjunctiva, shaped like broken rice. Some are scattered in the form of dots, and some are densely packed in groups. At first, the stone is located deep and buried under the conjunctiva. Generally, there are no subjective symptoms. Later, it gradually emerges on the surface of the conjunctiva. Only when the nodule protrudes from the surface of the conjunctiva will there be a foreign body sensation, and it may even cause corneal abrasion. In this case, it can be removed with a knife tip or injection needle under surface anesthesia. If there are no irritation symptoms, no treatment is required. If it is complicated by trachoma, chronic conjunctivitis and other diseases, the primary disease should be treated after provocation. However, most patients may continue to grow new stones after the stones are removed, and often require regular treatment to prevent corneal abrasion. According to traditional Chinese medicine, intraocular stones are caused by wind evil invading the spleen meridian, blocking the eyelids, and turning into heat over time, burning body fluids and causing stagnation in the eyelids. They can be treated with agents that clear the heart and spleen and heat, such as Neishu Huanglian Decoction with modifications.

You can go to the hospital to have it removed. Picking out eye stones is just a minor operation and can be done in the outpatient clinic without the need for hospitalization. The operation is very simple. First, apply eye drops for surface anesthesia, clean the patient's eyes, and then use a needle to pick out the conjunctival mass.

However, some patients may continue to grow new stones after the stones are removed, such as Zhang Jiezhi. "Because eye stones are often caused by eye inflammation, if the inflammation is not eliminated, the stones will only be removed symptomatically, but the source of the disease will not be cut off, and they may recur next time, just like acne on the face." If eye stones grow again and symptoms occur, treatment must be continued to prevent corneal abrasion. Although regular removal of eye stones does not cause blindness, it is extremely troublesome. Therefore, if patients want to cure the disease, they must find out the real cause. For example, Zhang Jiezhi first needs to confirm whether his stones are caused by chronic keratitis, and then treat the inflammation. Once the inflammation disappears, eye stones will no longer exist.