Is lacrimal gland inflammation serious?

Dacryadenitis is not serious, dacryadenitis has acute dacryadenitis and chronic dacryadenitis points. Acute dacryadenitis, clinical rare, generally unilateral onset, mainly seen in children, mostly due to measles, mumps or influenza caused by bacterial, viral infection. Performance for orbital upper local swelling, pain, upper eyelid edema, and lymph node enlargement, we should be based on the cause of symptomatic treatment, antibacterial, antiviral treatment. Chronic dacryadenitis is a kind of proliferative inflammatory disease with slow progress, mostly bilateral, immune reaction is the main cause, mostly part of orbital disease, such as inflammatory thyroid tumor, thyroid related eye disease, benign lymphoepithelial disease. Clinical manifestations are mostly seen in lacrimal gland enlargement, generally painless, can be accompanied by ptosis, outer orbital margin can touch a harder mass, more tenderness, eyeball can be inward downward deviation, outward upward gaze, double vision, rare exophthalmos. Chronic dacryadenitis is also aimed at the cause or primary disease treatment, treatment of inflammatory thyroid tumor, thyroid-related eye disease, we can give systemic hormone treatment, immunosuppressant treatment.