If dry eye symptoms occur with a mild pinguecula,lubricating eye dropsmay help. If dry eye is the cause of the pinguecula, eye drops formulated to treat dry eyes also may be prescribed. Your eye doctor might also prescribescleral contact lenses. These can cover the growth to ease some of ...
Pingueculae are visible with the naked eye and can appear either on the temporal or nasal side (or both) of the cornea, but are more commonly found nasally. A routine eye examination is usually sufficient to diagnose this condition, but a slit-lamp microscope examination can also be ...
METHODS: Of 50 consecutive patients who had inflamed pterygia (n = 17) or pingueculae (n = 33), met the study criteria, and signed an informed consent, one eye of each patient was evaluated in a comparative, prospective, randomized, double-masked, controlled study. Objective signs (...