Medical Health Encyclopedia

Your doctor will take your medical history and perform a physical examination which will include a detailed eye exam.

To help diagnose the cause of the problem, your doctor will ask medical history questions, such as:

• Are both of your eyes affected? If only one eye, which one?
• What part of the eye is affected -- the white part, or elsewhere?
• Did the redness come on suddenly?
• Have you ever had eye redness before?
• Do you have eye pain? Does it get worse after movement of the eyes?
• Do you have other symptoms like eye discharge, burning or itching? Nausea or vomiting? A headache?

The eyes may need irrigation with normal saline solution, and any foreign bodies will need to be removed. Eye drops may be prescribed.