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COMMON

CONDITIONS EYE,
EAR, NOSE AND
THROAT
MR. ROHIT MENGAR

NURSE EDUCATOR

MSC NURSE
COMMON CONDITIONS – EYE, EAR, NOSE AND
THROAT
• Common Eye Problems
• Primary Care for Local Infection of Eye
• Redness of Eye
• Conjunctivitis
• Trachoma
• Stye
• Initial Diagnosis and Referral of Refractive Errors
• Common Ear-Nose-Throat (ENT) Problems Epistaxis
• Acute Suppurative Otitis Media (ASOM)
• Sore Throat
• Deafness
PRIMARY CARE FOR LOCAL INFECTION OF EYE

• Before discussing the primary care, let us go through symptoms and signs, assessment for general
eye problems as given below:

• Symptoms and signs of eye infections.

• • Pain, itching, or sensation of a foreign body in the eye

• • Photosensitivity (aversion to bright light)

• • Redness or small red lines in the white of the eye

• • Discharge of yellow pus that may be crusty on waking up

• • Watering of eyes • Swelling of eye

• • Whitening of black of eye

• • Swollen eyelids

• • Constant involuntary blinking (blepharospasm)

• • Crusting over of the eyelid


PRIMARY CARE AND NURSING MANAGEMENT ASSESSMENT
(WHATSUP) EXPLAINED AS:

• W-What part of the eye is affected? Eyelid, conjunctiva, cornea?


• H-How does it feel? Pressure? Itchy? Painful? No pain? Irritated? Spasm?
• A-Aggravating and alleviating factors. Worse when rubbing eyes, blinking?
• T-Timing. Was there exposure to a pathogen? Previous infection or irritation?
Length of time, symptoms have persisted?
• S-Severity. Is there visual impairment?
• U-Useful data for associated symptoms
• P-Photosensitivity.

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