Injudicious Use of Steroid-Containing Eye Drops

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THE injudicious use of eye drops containing steroids can result in permanent loss of vision, and even in loss of the eye. Although this fact has been stressed for several years in the ophthalmic literature, it has not frequently enough reached the readers of general medical journals. The problem therefore deserves repetition here.Thygeson considers herpes-simplex keratitis to be the most important corneal disease leading to loss of vision in this country today. The herpes virus is insensitive to any presently known antibiotics, and numerous clinical and experimental studies1 , 2 have shown adrenal steroids to have a detrimental effect on progress . . .

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