Because of the rather limited range of symptoms scleritis can manifest with (tearing eyes, redness in the normally white parts of your eyes, pain, etc), and the difficulty patients often find in communicating the breadth of these symptoms to doctors and other health professionals, scleritis can be misdiagnosed as a whole host of other conditions. [...]

The sclera is simply the outermost layer of the eye, otherwise referred to as the white of your eye. It acts as a protective layer for the vital components of the eye beneath, and in fact it is the sclera itself which maintains the spherical shape of the eye. The sclera has four layers, which [...]

At first glance, scleritis and episcleritis seem very similar. Both conditions are typified by redness and bloodshot eyes, as well as varying amounts of pain and tearing. Their names even sound the same, so what exactly separates episcleritis from scleritis? The answer is mainly the severity of the condition. Episcleritis is the inflammation and irritation [...]

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