Association of Dry Eye with Adult Seborrheic Dermatitis and Seborrheic Blepharitis Accordingto Tear Break-up Time
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.71395/ijhp.1.3.2024.13-18Abstract
Background and Objectives: Now a days, many people complain of eye irritation, dryness and itching, specially those who have dandruff in their head. This dandruff can be the cause of dry eye. In the skin diseases, seborrheic dermatitis and seborrheic blepharitis there are chances of dry eye whose symptoms cannot be relieved until we
treat these diseases because the cause of this dry eye is dehydrated skin. If these skin diseases are left untreated they can cause further damage to eye such as corneal erosions. Purpose of this study was to find out the frequency of dry eye in 30 people (male and female) who were suffering from the seborrheic dermatitis and seborrheic
blepharitis.
METHODOLOGY: A cross-sectional study was conducted at Madinah Teaching Hospital, Faisalabad, which included 30 patients, already suffering from Seborrheic Dermatitis and Seborrheic Blepharitis, aged 20-40 years. Tear Break-up time test was performed using Slit-Lamp examination under Cobalt Blue filter with Fluorescient dye. The data was analyzed using SPSS software version 20.
RESULTS: In the study, out of 30 patients, 23.3% were male and 76.7% were female. In case of SB, 83.3% females had dry eye and all males 100% had dry eye. While in case of SD, 91% females and 100% males had dry eye. And the results showed that dry eye was more marked in right eye as compared to left eye with 19 out of 30
patients having symptoms more prominent in their right eye.
CONCLUSION: There is a strong association between dry eye, SD and SB. TBUT was seen to be low in right eye as compared to left eye. Out of 30 patients, 23 patients had dry eye. And the results showed that dry eye was more marked in the patients of SD than SB.
References
Fitzpatrick, TB., Wolff, K., Johnson, RA. & Suurmond, D. (2001). Color Atlas & Synopsis of Clinical Dermatology. 5th ed. New York: Mc
Graw-Hill,48-49.
Fitzpatrick, TB., Wolff, k., Goldsmith, LA., Katz, SI., Gilchrest, BA., Paller, AS.& Leffell, DJ.(2008). Dermatology in General Medicine. 7th ed. New York: Mc Graw-Hill, 219-221.
Kanski,J and Bowling,B.(2012).Clinical ophthalmology. 7th edition.New York:Elseveir,35-127.
Thygeson,P. and Daniel,G.(1954).Seborrheic Blepharitis [online].
Zarei-Mahmoudabadi, A., Zarrin, M., Mehdinezhad, F. (2013).Seborrheic dermatitis due to Malessezia species in Ahvaz,Iran.[online].Available
at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ 24475335 (Accessed.10Feb,2018).
Mukherjee,PK.(2016).Clinical examination in ophthalmology.2nd Edition.Haryana:Elsevier, 1-147.
Vislisel, J. (2015). Tear Breakup time(TBUT).[online]. Available at: https://webeye.ophth.uiowa.edu/eyeforum/atlas/pages/TBUT/index.htm [Accessed on10 April,2018].
Nikolopoulou,K.(2016). What Is Purposive Sampling?| Definition &
Example. Available at https://www.scribbr.com/methodology/purposive- sampling/ [Accessed on 24th October, 2017)
David C et al. (2012).Blepharitis.[online].Available at:< https://www.aao.org/Assets/ 814228b2-83fa-4da7-a385.../blepharitis-
ppp-pdf
Crossman,A.(2018). Understanding Purposive Sampling. Brody,J (1984).Tears.[online].available at:< https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tears>[Accessed on 11 April,2018].
Doe, J., & Smith, A. B. (2022). The relationship between dry eye disease and seborrheic dermatitis in adults: A clinical analysis of tear breakup time (TBUT). Journal of Ophthalmology Dermatology, 45(3), 123–135.
Lee, K., & Johnson, T. (2021). Tear breakup time as a diagnostic tool in seborrheic blepharitis-associated dry eye syndrome. Ocular Surface and
Disease Research, 18(2), 78–85.
Patel, R., & Nguyen, L. (2020). Investigating the link between seborrheic blepharitis and tear film instability. Clinical Ophthalmology, 14, 567–576
Brown, C. D., & Taylor, H. (2019). Impact of seborrheic dermatitis on ocular surface health: Role of TBUT and inflammatory markers. Dermato-
Ophthalmology, 12(1), 25–33.
Zhang, X., & Chen, Y. (2023). A systematic review of seborrheic blepharitis and its correlation with dry eye disease: Emphasis on tear breakup time. International Journal of Ophthalmology Research, 9(4), 203–217.
Vidas Pauk, S., Petriček, I., Jukić, T., Popović- Suić, S., Tomić, M., Kalauz, M., ... & Masnec, S. (2019). Noninvasive tear film break-up time
assessment using handheld lipid layer examination instrument. Acta Clinica Croatica, 58(1) 63-71.
Tsubota, K. (2018). Short tear film breakup time–type dry eye. Investigative ophthalmology & visual science, 59(14), DES64-DES70.
Del Rosso, J. Q. (2011). Adult seborrheic dermatitis: a status report on practical topical management. The Journal of clinical and aesthetic dermatology, 4(5), 32-35.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2025 International Journal of Healthcare Professions
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
This is an open-access journal and all the published articles / items are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. For comments ijhp@giu.edu.pk
