Abstract: Introduction: Vernal kerato-conjunctivitis (VKC) is a recurrent bilateral chronic allergic inflammatory disease of cornea and conjunctiva affecting mainly young males in the first decade of life. Diagnosis is based on signs and symptoms including itching, photophobia, sticky mucous discharge, giant papillae on the upper tarsal conjunctiva or at the limbus, superficial keratopathy and corneal shield ulcer. Several reports indicate that topical anti-inflammatory and antiallergic eye-drops are the mainstay of treatment for vernal kerato-conjunctivitis (VKC), but a gold-standard treatment has not yet been established for this disease. In the present study we compared the effectiveness of topical corticosteroids......
Keywords: Vernal Kerato-Conjunctivitis, Bilateral Chronic Allergic Inflammatory Disease, Itching, Photophobia, Sticky Mucous Discharge, Giant Papillae.
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