photophobia
Sign in to savePhotophobia is a medical symptom of abnormal intolerance to visual perception of light. As a medical symptom, photophobia is not a morbid fear or phobia, but an experience of discomfort or pain to the eyes due to light exposure or by presence of actual physical sensitivity of the eyes, though the term is sometimes additionally applied to abnormal or irrational fear of light, such as heliophobia. The term photophobia comes .
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Vinony's link graph records 533 inbound references to photophobia, and connects out to visual impairment, cataract and migraine.
It is catalogued under topics including Neurological disorders, Phobias and Visual disturbances and blindness.
Vinony links it to 37 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Medical condition.name
- Photophobia
- Medical condition.field
- Ophthalmology
- Medical condition.symptoms
- Low tolerance to light on eyes, eye pain
- Medical condition.risks
- Albinism, corneal abrasion, ocular nerve damage
- Medical condition.treatment
- treatment of underlying cause, sunglasses
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
5,100 papers- [Child photophobia].La Revue du praticien · 2019
- Unusual Photophobia in a Child.JAMA ophthalmology · 2016
- Photophobia in headache disorders: characteristics and potential mechanisms.Journal of neurology · 2022
- Neurobiology of Photophobia.Journal of neuro-ophthalmology : the official journal of the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society · 2019
- Photophobia in migraine: A symptom cluster?Cephalalgia : an international journal of headache · 2021
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- symptom or sign
- Subclass of
- photosensitivity
Show 4 more facts
- has cause
- tyrosinemia type II
- health specialty
- ophthalmology
- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0000210
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C28210
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Causes
- Eye-related
- Nervous-system-related
- Other causes
- Treatment
- Artificial light
- Disability
- See also
- References
- External links
Photophobia is a medical symptom of abnormal intolerance to visual perception of light. As a medical symptom, photophobia is not a morbid fear or phobia, but an experience of discomfort or pain to the eyes due to light exposure or by presence of actual physical sensitivity of the eyes, though the term is sometimes additionally applied to abnormal or irrational fear of light, such as heliophobia. The term photophobia comes .
==Causes== Patients may develop photophobia as a result of several different medical conditions, related to the eye, the nervous system, genetic, or other causes.
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