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Eye socket pain is a sign that can be encountered in many different diseases. This can be a sign of a dangerous disease and seriously affects vision if not detected and treated early.
1. Eye socket pain is what disease?
The eye socket is composed of many different bones including the maxillary bone, the frontal bone, the cheekbone, the lacrimal bone, the ethmoid bone, and the sphenoid bone. Not only that, the inside of the eye socket also contains soft tissue including the optic nerve, blood vessels, eye muscles, eyeball...
Orbital pain can be caused by many different causes. It can also be a sign of a dangerous disease in the eye such as orbital inflammation, glaucoma, tumor... that needs to be treated early otherwise it will cause many dangerous complications.
2. What causes eye socket pain?
Orbital pain is a sign that can appear due to causes related to the internal organs of the eye socket. This is also a manifestation of some diseases in other organs. Here are the common causes of orbital pain symptoms :
2.1 Orchitis This is a condition caused by an infection of the soft tissues in the orbit and the muscles around the eye by microbiological agents such as bacteria and viruses. bacteria, viruses or fungi.
Orchitis is a disease that can affect the components that make up the orbit. This is a serious condition that, if not treated in time, can lead to irreversible vision loss, and even lead to life-threatening sepsis.
Orbital cellulitis can occur at any age, but is more common in children under 7 years of age and can worsen rapidly in children, increasing the risk of blindness. The manifestations of orbital cellulitis in children include:
Appearance of visual impairment. Swelling and pain in both upper and lower eyelids, possibly with swelling of the eyebrows and cheeks. Change in red or purple eyelid color. Fever over 39 degrees. Difficulty moving your eyes and feeling pain with eye movement Your eyes bulge and feel very sore in the eye sockets. Tired, children refuse to play. 2.2 Tumor in the orbit The tumor can originate from many different tissues and it can compress the nerves in the orbit causing pain in the orbit. Tumors can occur at any age and can be benign or malignant.
Benign tumors: Some benign tumors include hemangiomas, dermoid cysts, fibrous dysplasia in children, optic nerve tumors in adults... Melanoma: Some malignancies including rhabdomyosarcoma, bone malignancy, metastatic cancer, lymphoma...
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2.3 Glaucoma Glaucoma is an eye disease that is more common in the elderly and can be called by different names such as glaucoma, glaucoma. Glaucoma occurs when the pressure in the eye is abnormally high, causing damage to the optic nerve, leading to vision loss or blindness if not diagnosed and treated early.
Glaucoma is mainly divided into 2 types including:
2.3.1. Open-angle glaucoma Open-angle glaucoma usually progresses slowly and gradually increases, it takes a later stage to manifest itself. Symptoms usually appear one eye at a time. Manifestations of open-angle glaucoma may include:
See things more blurred. Reduced visual field of the eye causes tunnel vision. That is, all vision around is lost and only forward vision is visible. Red eyes, eye pain, and eye discomfort Some people may experience headaches. 2.3.2. Angle-closure glaucoma Angle-closure glaucoma can be divided into three categories: acute, subacute, and chronic. In which, chronic angle-closure glaucoma is very rare, often occurs gradually, the symptoms are similar to those of open-angle glaucoma. In the case of acute and subacute angle-closure glaucoma, the onset will be sudden with the following signs:
Visibly reduced vision, seeing a halo of color like when looking at a lightbulb Feeling severe headache, pain in the socket fierce eyes. Eye pain, red eyes. Nausea and vomiting. Irreversible visual impairment due to glaucoma. Therefore, to detect the disease early, it is necessary to have regular eye exams to screen for disease. If detected early, vision loss can be prevented or slowed. The treatment of these two types of glaucoma is completely different, so it is necessary to have an accurate diagnosis of closed-angle glaucoma or open-angle glaucoma to give an appropriate treatment plan.
2.4 Eye trauma After a direct or indirect injury to the eye socket can cause a number of conditions such as hemorrhage of the eyeball, bruising of the organization in the eye, foreign body in the eye socket... Expression of pain Traumatic eye sockets can be caused by many factors. But if you experience orbital pain after an eye injury, you need to see a doctor to find the cause quickly.
2.5 Some infectious diseases Pain in the eye socket is not only a sign of eye diseases but also can be a manifestation of some diseases such as:
Sinusitis: Especially frontal sinusitis is a common cause. pain in the eye socket, which increases when the head is lowered. In addition to symptoms of pain in the eye socket, the patient may have a runny nose and possibly a fever. Dengue fever: This is a viral disease transmitted by mosquito bites. In the early stages, the patient may appear high fever, body aches, pain in both eyes, headache. Viral fever: In addition to dengue fever, some other viral causes of fever can also cause systemic symptoms such as fever, body pain, orbital pain, etc. Infectious diseases often cause high fever and symptoms. The main pain is not orbital pain and the pain may be intermittently intermittent. Unlike orbital inflammation, eye pain is constant and accompanied by other eye symptoms.
2.6 Vasculitis Orbital vasculitis also causes orbital pain and other systemic symptoms such as fever.
2.7 Varicose Veins In the eye socket, if dilated, it will cause blood stagnation, causing the eye to bulge and pain in the eye socket. When having varicose veins in the eye socket, the patient needs to rest and avoid working too much.
2.8 Graves' disease is an immune-related hyperthyroidism, one of the effects of the disease is to cause protrusion and the cause is not really clear. This condition causes pain in the orbits, bulging eyes, difficulty moving the eyes, feeling dazzled, eyestrain, watery or dry eyes, puffiness, and blurred or double vision. In addition, there are other symptoms such as rapid heart rate, heat, sweating, enlarged thyroid gland, eating a lot and being thin...
2.9 Graves' disease causing eye socket pain Graves is a thyroid disease that can cause protrusion and glare Eyes, watery, sometimes burning sensation... For lower eyelids can be edematous, may be paralyzed, eyelids can't be closed, the risk of complications can lead to corneal ulcers, dry eyes.
2.10 Other systemic diseases Some diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes can cause eye complications and thereby cause orbital pain.
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3. What to do when you have eye socket pain?
Orbital pain has many causes, if you see orbital pain accompanied by symptoms such as blurred vision, severe pain, high fever, bulging eyes, prolonged pain... Children who encounter these signs need to to go to medical facilities to be examined and find the cause, get treatment early to limit the risk of complications, if any.
Hopefully through the article you have learned what orbital pain is and how to recognize it in cases that need early treatment to avoid complications. Regular eye exams are very important to help detect diseases that have no obvious symptoms and help patients access early treatment.
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