Spring catarrh (spring conjunctivitis) - a chronic inflammation of a conjunctiva of blepharons and an eyeglobe, becoming aggravated during the spring-and-summer period. Believe, that in a parentage of disease the basic role is played with allergic factors, endocrine frustration and ultra-violet radiation.

Signs, current. A photophobia, a dacryagogue, an itch in opinion of. Distinguish the conjunctival, corneal and admixed forms of disease. At the conjunctival form the connecting environment of a cartilage of a upper eyelid has a milk shade and is covered by the large light pink papillary growths reminding a cobblestone road. On a conjunctiva of a transitive cord and a lower eyelid they are very rare. The corneal form of disease is characterized by occurrence of grayish acyanotic vitreous thickenings of a limbus, inside from which occasionally there are gentle opacifications of a cornea. The discharge insignificant or is absent. Current long with periodic exacerbations, mainly in the spring and in the summer. Disease, as a rule, arises at youthful age and later many years calm down.