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Frequent Swollen Eye - Articles
When your eyes just swell with tears of pride
by
Jan
Posted
Sat 13 Jun 2009 12:07am
When Nash was small, ok, smaller, about "Gymboree" size, I often wondered how he would do in gymnastics. I was a gymnast until 2nd year in college when I found a social life. So with my interest, and Nash's flexibility, I am thinking, hey, what a great gene mesh!
Flexibility is a hallmark of having Down syndrome, but unlike those ...
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Hives twice in one week!
by
Diane
Posted
Thu 24 Mar 2011 8:31am
It's been a tiring week and a half so far. The little man has had a bad cold and cough accompanied by a fever 3 nights in a row that would spike at 4 pm each day. He would have no fever during the day but a 4 he would get a fever ranging for 102-103.2. It hasn't been fun for anyone. Lack of sleep is getting to both me and daddy. Jim just says Ma ...
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The Dreaded Pink Eye Strikes Again!
by
Susan H.
Posted
Tue 24 Mar 2009 3:17pm
One of my twins came home from preschool on Monday with pink eye. It’s the second time in just a few months, and he also had it a year ago (along with his twin brother). Unfortunately, pink eye, also called conjunctivitis, is highly contagious, so it tends to circulate frequently in the schools.
The first sign for my kids is usually the “gunk ...
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KULITI: Sty in the Eye
by
Anthony R.
Posted
Sun 05 May 2013 12:00am
There’s a stigma attached to having “kuliti” (hodeolum or sty) in the eye, and that is having a habit of secretly sneaking and maliciously looking on somebody’s private parts. In other words, you are a “Peeping Tom.” Well, there might be a medical basis on this accusation as you might be putting your eye in dirty peepholes as you sneak and pe ...
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Signs & Symptoms of Graves' Disease
by
Med RX
Posted
Sun 24 Aug 2008 4:41pm
Here is a list of some of the common signs and symptoms of Graves' Disease:
Blurred vision
Breathlessness
Brittle hair
Bulging eyes
Conjunctival edema
Double vision
Enlarged thyroid gland
Eye changes
Eye inflammation
Frequent bowel movements
Goiter
Heat intolerance
Heat sensitivity
High blood pressure
H ...
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Swelling under the eyes after Fraxel
by
AlexanderRivkinMD
Posted
Thu 17 Feb 2011 7:48pm
I had Fraxel yesterday and today the swelling under eyes is enormous and very alarming, so I went online and read that some women had pronounced swellling under their eyes lasting 5 month and one lady it was over two years. I was unaware of this prior. If I would have this same problem lasting basically permanently, is there a solution to p ...
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IBD
by
nitinsyal
Posted
Thu 25 Jun 2009 9:53pm
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is an idiopathic disease, probably involving an immune reaction of the body to its own intestinal tract. The 2 major types of IBD are ulcerative colitis and Crohn disease. As the name suggests, ulcerative colitis is limited to the colon; Crohn disease can involve any segment of the gastrointestinal tract from the ...
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Swollen Eyes
by
Lee
Posted
Wed 22 Oct 2008 4:53pm
Well, I think I actually got a decent nights sleep last night. I went to bed with a headache, but I had been given so much pain medication I didn't want to take anything else. But I feel pretty good right now. I had a headache when I woke up but I took Tylenol and I am feeling fine. The problem is my eyes are swollen, which they said could an ...
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