Photophobia

Migraines, recurrent throbbing headaches that are typically accompanied by nausea and disturbed vision, affect fifteen percent of the world’s population (Migraine). They are particularly sensitive to any form of sound, movement, or light. Light sensitivity, otherwise known as photophobia, is often a side effect of migraines experienced by about eighty percent of migraineurs (Noseda et al 2016). “The inability to endure light can be disabling,” as said by Rami Burstein, academic director of the Comprehensive Headache Center at Beth Israel Deaconess (Harvard 2016), and “renders migraineurs dysfunctional as they are forced to halt fundamental daily tasks to seek the comfort of darkness,” (Noseda et al. 2016). Six years ago, Burstein and his colleges…

Epidemiology and Presentation The diagnosis of this patient was bilateral, secondary noninfections iridocyclitis. Iridocyclitis is caused by trauma due to the damage of cells resulting in an inflammatory response. There is a break down in the blood aqueous barrier allowing white blood cells and other inflammatory mediators to enter into the anterior chamber. Symptoms associated with iridocyclitis include pain, photophobia and redness of the eyes. Signs associated with iridocyclitis include…

Ashley Spahn Professor Lyon Hough BMS 307 September 7, 2017 Unit 1 Case Study Having read the case and knowing the symptoms, I would claim that the patient has Spinal Meningitis. Meningitis is a rare infection of the arachnoid and pia mater membranes that cover the spinal cord (Meningitis). This infection can be bacterial or viral transmitted by direct spread and can progress within a few hours or days. Common symptoms include: severe headaches, high fever, stiff neck, fatigue, muscle aches,…

Pericentral or paracentral scotoma, and central scotoma may be present, causing decreased visual acuity, but it rarely affects color vision (Food and Drug Administration, 2006). Retinopathy. When reading, the patient may experience words, letters or missing parts in objects, photophobia, blurred distance vision, or missing or blacked out areas of the central and peripheral vision. These are the most common symptoms attributed to Retinopathy. Retinopathy does appear to be related to the dosage of…

Headache is diagnosed by history and physical exam (Mayo Clinic, 2013). Patient most likely has migraine headache without aura because patient has unilateral pain, throbbing quality, moderate intensity pain and nausea. According to Dunphy et al. (2015) migraine without aura requires two of the following characteristics; they are unilateral location, pulsating quality, moderate to severe intensity and exacerbation by physical activity. In addition at least one of the following must be present:…

This can consist of a physical exam, a comparison of the child’s pigmentation to that of their family members and a description of the alterations in pigmentation, as well as a detailed eye exam to detect nystagmus, strabismus, photophobia, and astigmatism. Throughout the eye exam, an ophthalmologist, a medical doctor who specializes in medical care of the eyes, utilizes a microscope with an immensely bright light, known as a slit lamp, to examine the retina and establish if there are signs of…

disease that’s caused by little to no production of melanin. This disorder can affect vison, skin, hair and the person’s ability to tan. Certain genes in our body are responsible for making proteins that are involved in making melanin, which is produced by cells called melanocytes. Albinism is caused when a mutation occurs in one of these genes. It’s also caused by recessive inheritance. This means that a person has to inherit two copies of one mutated gene- one from each parent in order to…

there is considerable overlap and both are often present (Carlisle & Digiovanni, 2015). Staphylococcus bacteria has been associated with blepharitis which is more common in women than men (Liu, Sheha, & Tseng, 2010). Blepharitis symptoms are usually worse upon awakening as a result some people might experience frontal headache (Liu, Sheha, & Tseng, 2010). Blepharitis clinical presentation includes: itchy and burning of the eyelid margins with redness and edema, watery eyes, eyelids that…

Postdural puncture headache (PDPH) is one of the most common complications after spinal anesthesia. Postdural puncture headache is defined as a headache that begins 24–28 hours after spinal anesthesia with frontal or neck pain and grows over approximately 15 minutes after the patient sits up. Often, it is observed in combination with nausea and neck rigidity, and sometimes with photophobia, or defective hearing. Rates of PDPH varies by diameter and architecture of the needles used [1-3]. In…

the 1950s by the hand of Richard Matheson's I Am Legend (1954), in which the vampire takes control over the world after a holocaust in which humankind has almost disappeared. In the 1970s Stephen King recuperates the image of the vampire illustrated in Dracula, the creature reflects its colonizing ideal, that can be seen in the Count, in a small village of New England, Jerusalem's Lot, which gives the title of the story: Salem's Lot (1975). In the same decade, Anne Rice brought back the literary…