What's the difference between photalgia and photophobia?
Photalgia
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Photophobia
Definition:
(n.) A dread or intolerance of light.
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(1) It was found that medrysone (1%) significantly improved the symptoms of itching, watering, photophobia and hyperaemia, while sodium cromoglycate (2%) was found to be ineffective.
(2) Cryptococcal pneumonia meningitis appears in 63-84% of AIDS patients with symptoms of fever, headache, meningism, and photophobia.
(3) Mild corneal dystrophy without photophobia was observed in one female carrier.
(4) We report on a 16-month-old infant with severe photophobia and failure to thrive.
(5) A mother and daugher had a life-long history of poor vision and photophobia, bilateral macular colobomata, and retinal pigment epithelial abnormalities; psychoelectrophysiological testing indicated extensive loss of cone or cone-rod function.
(6) Dazzle glare resulting from the accumulation of cystine crystals in ocular tissue may account for glare disability seen in these patients and contribute to their complaints of photophobia.
(7) All complained of severe photophobia and difficulty in reading.
(8) Sumatriptan also reduced nausea and photophobia significantly better than placebo.
(9) Nausea, photophobia and phonophobia tended to be more pronounced at the clinical interview.
(10) All had photophobia, nystagmus of fixation, extremely low visual acuity and extreme loss of colour sense with shortened red spectrum.
(11) It induced photophobia, which appeared between three and four years when a superficial punctate keratopathy appeared.
(12) Reduction of photophobia, burning, dryness and foreign-body sensation were achieved by local administration of the drug 2 to 5 times a day.
(13) An incomplete form of rod monochromatism is described in a young man with normal visual acuity and absence of nystagmus or photophobia.
(14) Symptoms of VIMS may include photophobia, an inability to read in a moving auto, and nausea, dizziness, headache, eye strain and anxiety following provocative visual stimuli.
(15) A case of empty sella complicated with bilateral quadrantanopsia, poliosis and photophobia is reported.
(16) Ocular symptoms (eye burning, tearing, photophobia) often occurred largely before the development of chronic conjunctivitis (predictive value = 61.5%).
(17) Patients with symptoms (photophobia, pain, itching, burning sensation, foreign-body sensation, and tearing) were treated with topically administered indomethacin 1% or placebo and monitored for eight weeks.
(18) Band keratopathy, caused by a variety of chronic ocular or systemic diseases, produces pain, photophobia, and decreased vision.
(19) A clinically significant reduction in the incidence of nausea, vomiting and photophobia was observed in the sumatriptan group compared with the placebo group, and sumatriptan was also more effective at reducing the functional disability of the patients.
(20) We should accept Solomon's and Cappa's attitude who suggest at least two of the following five criteria: 1. nausea with or without vomiting, 2. unilaterality, 3. pulsating pain, 4. photophobia or phonophobia, and 5. provocation by menstruation or positive family history.