Why is dry eye blindness?

Dry eye blindness is related to inflammatory medium infiltration, corneal ulcer, corneal perforation, etc.

1. Inflammatory medium infiltration

Dry eye patients are prone to eye infection, release inflammatory medium, inflammatory medium long-term infiltration of the ocular surface, causing chronic damage to the ocular surface, destroying the ocular surface nerve, causing vision decline, severe blindness.

2. Corneal ulcer

Dry eye complicated with keratitis, ulcer occurs, if the ulcer involves the whole cornea, forming a deep corneal scar, scar causes the cornea to become cloudy, light entering the eye can not image on the retina, will cause blindness.

3. Corneal perforation

Dry eye complicated with corneal inflammation, serious cause corneal perforation, if the perforation range is large, eye contents will flow out from the hole, leading to blindness.