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Blepharitis - Management
When should I refer a person with blepharitis?
- Refer for same-day ophthalmological assessment if there is sudden onset of visual loss or an eye becomes acutely painful and red.
- Refer with urgency appropriate to the problem if there is:
- Persistent localized disease or resistance to treatment or marked eyelid asymmetry (to exclude cancer of the eyelid margin).
- Evidence of corneal disease (pain, blurred vision).
- Deterioration of vision.
- Uncertainty about the diagnosis.
- Associated disease, such as Sjögren's syndrome or eyelid deformities.
- Insufficient improvement despite maximal treatment available in primary care (for secondary care treatment, such as corticosteroids).
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