Other parasite diseases of anterior segment of the eye

Abstract

Exotic tourism provides us with a lot of fun, but it can also be associated with serious eye complications. Parasites develop in the body for many months or even years before they cause specific symptoms of infection. Inflammation of the anterior segment may be associated with the consumption of contaminated food, bite by an infected insect or direct contact of the irritated eye with the parasite. Complications with parasites from the anterior segment of the eye include: orbital tissue inflammation (sometimes with the feeling of a foreign body resulting from the presence of a mature parasite), keratitis, hyperemia, pruritus and conjunctivitis, presence of a parasite under the conjunctiva or in the anterior chamber, uveitis, hypopyon, hyphema and iris atrophy. In differential diagnosis of clinically atypical anterior segment infection, parasite infections should be considered, even in the case where the patient was not in endemic areas, parasite infestation may occurr as a result of contact with the vector released after air or sea transport.