Does keratitis affect vision?

Keratitis may affect vision.

Keratitis symptoms are mild, patients actively cooperate with the doctor treatment, in most cases the disease can be cured. But keratitis patients if complicated with corneal ulcer, ulcer surface repair process will be connective tissue filling corneal scar. If the corneal scar thickness is thick, usually affect the patient's vision. Secondly, keratitis patients if the treatment is not timely lead to corneal perforation, but also cause eye atrophy, blindness, etc.

It is recommended that keratitis patients go to the hospital ophthalmology, active treatment for the cause. If it is caused by bacterial infection, can also be used levofloxacin eye drops, erythromycin eye ointment, tobramycin eye drops and other drug treatment.