PTOSIS
PTOSIS is a condition in which the upper eyelid droops over the eye. Sometimes it can interfere with your vision. The condition often affects older people but it can occur in children as well. Ptosis can occur in one eye or both eyes at the same time.
Types of ptosis
Ptosis can affect both children and adults.
- Congenital ptosis: Congenital ptosis means your child was born with the condition. Problems with the development of the levator muscle cause congenital ptosis.
- Acquired ptosis: This type of ptosis affects adults later in life. It occurs when your levator muscle weakens or separates away from your eyelid.
SYMPTOMS
if you or your child has ptosis by your eyelid’s appearance. It may cover only your upper eye, or it may cover your entire pupil. Other ptosis symptoms may include:
- Excessive rubbing of your eyes.
- Increased tearing.
- Decreased or impaired vision.
- Tiredness and achiness around your eyes.
- Children may tip their heads back to see.
- Congenital ptosis is caused by genetic inheritances.
- Excessive eye rubbing.
- Use of rigid contact lenses.
- Eye surgery.
- Eyelid tumours, cysts, or swelling.
- Horner’s syndrome.
- Ageing.
- Muscular problems.
- Nerve damage in the eye muscles.
- Neurological conditions.
- Eye trauma.
- The weakness of the eyelid muscles or eye nerve problems.
- Botox injections.
RISK FACTORS
- People with eye tumors,
- diabetes
- a history of stroke,
- cancer,
- and neurological disorders
PANCHAKARMA TREATMENT FOR PTOSIS
NETRA BASTI
NETRA TARPANA
SHIRO BASTI
NETRA DHARA
