primary eye care

1. Primary eye care examination.

2. •Case history.
•Examination of eye.

3. Case history

4. History.
• Patient is encouraged to narrate
his complaints but relevant
enquiries are made.

5. History.
• Present history.
• Past history.
• Personal history.
• Family history.

6. Present history
• Name.
• Age
• Gender
• Occupation.

7. Dimness of vision.
• Mode of onset(sudden ,gradual).
• Duration(short or long).
• For distance or near.
• Seeing double objects.
• Seeing flashes of light.
• Night blindness.

8. Pain in the eye.
• Mode of onset.
• Severity and duration.
• relation to close work.
• Time of day when maximum.
• Associated nausea, vomiting, photophobia,
impaired vision.

9. Redness , congestion
• Of the eyelids.
• Of the area surrounding the eye
• Of the eye.

10. Secretion.
• Excessive and normal secretion
• Type of altered secretion
• Sticky eyes
• Associated crusts and flakes.

11. Disturbance of eyeball
• Eyelids
Altered position.
Altered direction of margin.
Disturbance in function.
• Direction of eyeball.
• Fixation of pupil or eyeball.

12. Headache.
• Location.
• Severity and type
• Relation to near work
• Time of day when maximum
• Factors which relieve or aggravate
• Associated nausea, vomiting blurred vision.

13. Past history.
• Previous disease.
• Treatment
• Operation history
• Using glasses

14. Personal history
• Habits
Sleep.
Tobacco.
Alcohol intake.
Diet.
• Blood pressure
• Diabetes mellitus
• Infection in teeth , tonsils,ears.

15. Family history
• Diabetes mellitus
• Hypertension
• Myopia
• Glaucoma
• Congenital cataract.

16. Thank you