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Taiwan’s extreme heatwaves can damage your eyes. A woman in Kaohsiung spent a long time in the heat and then stayed up late after returning home. This resulted in severe pain in her eyes. She was then diagnosed with uveitis, which is inflammation of the middle pigmented vascular layer of the eyeball. It is a serious condition that requires urgent medical attention. If left untreated it can even lead to blindness. Let’s find out more.

In this photo is a patient’s cornea, which is covered with dense deposits of inflammatory cells.

A 24-year-old woman surnamed Lin in Kaohsiung experienced sudden redness, swelling and severe pain in her eyes after working in the sun for several days, coupled with staying up late and lack of sleep. She couldn’t even open her eyes in bright light and her eyes were constantly watering. After emergency medical examination, doctors diagnosed her with acute uveitis.

Hung Chi-ting
Ophthalmologist
Since she works in sales, she has to be out and about. Doctors usually assume it’s conjunctivitis, but what I saw inside her eyes looked like large, patchy areas, like pimples. So I suspected it might be uveitis.

This doctor says extreme high temperatures and drastic temperature differences between indoors and outdoors can easily lead to changes in the permeability of blood vessels, causing inflammatory cells such as white blood cells and proteins to leak into the aqueous humor.

Hung Chi-ting
Ophthalmologist
When she first came here, her vision was at 0.8, but when it got really severe, it dropped to 0.2. Because of humid heat caused by extreme weather, our blood vessels are prone to leaking. So if you’re just sitting in an air-conditioned room, the chances of this happening aren’t that high.

This doctor notes this disease may still leave sequelae after treatment. When faced with extreme weather, in addition to guarding against heatstroke, people should also pay attention to their eye health.

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