![]() ![]() Larger dataset and more time will help us know whether eye pain is truly an early symptom of Covid-19 disease. It was also found to be completely separate from conjunctivitis. The search for “my eyes hurt” was found to be highest in parts of the country that have high Covid-19 rates. The four most common Google searches were loss of smell, fever, chills and then eye pain. In addition to conjunctivitis, a recent opinion piece in The New York Timestracked various Google search terms most related to Covid-19 disease and found an uptick in the number of internet searches for eye pain. A new conjunctivitis diagnosis may trigger your doctor to ask other screening questions to assess your risk of having coronavirus. While conjunctivitis can occur in Covid-19, red eyes alone are not enough to diagnose coronavirus infection. ![]() In a story from CNN, a registered nurse in a nursing home in Washington state with a large Covid-19 outbreak reported that red eye was a common early sign in elderly patients who then became sick with COVID-19. In a retrospective case series published in JAMA Ophthalmology , about a third of clinically confirmed hospitalized cases of Covid-19 in China had ocular findings. A study, published in the Ne w England Journal of Medicine, looked at patients across multiple hospitals in China with a confirmed diagnosis of Covid-19 and found that a little less than 1% of them had conjunctivitis. Several published reports suggest that conjunctivitis occurs in coronavirus infection either as an early sign of infection or during hospitalization for severe Covid-19 disease. It can often affect one eye and then the other eye a few days later. Conjunctivitis is an inflammation of the clear ‘skin’ that covers the eyeball and presents as a red, “wet and weepy” eye. What eye symptoms does coronavirus cause?ĬOVID-19 can cause a viral conjunctivitis (or “pink eye”) in a small subset of patients. Our eyes may play a key role in both the spread and prevention of the new coronavirus outbreak. As we learn more about the novel coronavirus and the disease that it causes (COVID-19), we are learning about the various parts of the body that it can affect. ![]()
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