Lead: the white of the eyes of a healthy person is white without any heterochrosis or stains. In pathological conditions, some diseases could be determined by the appearance. The information below would be useful guides to teach you how to determine the health status through the colour of eyes.
The colour of your eyes gives you the secret code of your health.
The white of the eye shows blue.
Medically known as the blue sclera. This symptom is usually caused by chronic iron deficiency. Iron is a very important element in the collagen tissue of the sclera surface. Iron deficiency could result a thinner sclera, and once the sclera couldn’t cover the black blue choroid underneath, the white of the eye could show blue colour. Moreover, chronic iron deficiency would lead to iron-deficiency anemia. Thus the patients have got moderate or severe anemia, the white of their eyes all show blue white colour.
The white of the eye shows red.
This is a congestive phenomena usually resulted from inflammation caused by bacterial/viral infection. If it is also accompanied by symptoms of secretions, foreign body sensations, itch and ophthalmalgia, etc., the patient should go to the ophthalmology of a hospital for diagnosis and treatment. Moreover, people with high blood pressure before the stroke and the onset of epilepsy, people with severe insomnia and cardiac insufficiency, will all have the symptoms of congestive redness in the white of the eye. If there’s redness in only one side of eyes, then should be considering the possibility of STD infection.
The white of the eye shows yellow.
This is the evidence of jaundice, which could be caused by infectious hepatitis, biliary tract diseases, gestosis and some hemolytic diseases.
Blood fragments in the white of the eye
This is the warning sign of arteriosclerosis, especially cerebral arteriosclerosis.
Green spots in the white of the eye.
Mostly, it is the early sign of intestinal obstruction.
Red spots in the white of the eye
It is the result from the expansion of capillary terminals. Diabetes patients usually have this kind of symptom.
Spots in triangle, round or lune shape with blue, grey or black colour in the white of the eye
It is the common symptom of intestinal ascariasis.
Source: Tang Niao Bing Zhi You Magzine
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