ANTIBACTERIAL THERAPY FOR INFLAMMATORY DISEASES OF THE OCULAR SURFACE IN CHILDREN

Inflammatory ocular surface diseases (frontal ocular surface) are considered as the most common cause for visiting ophthalmologists. Among bacterial eye diseases, conjunctivitis accounts for up to 68.1% (according to the data of outpatient visits to the Department of Infectious and Allergic Diseases of the Eye MSRIED n.a.Helmholtz for 2000-2012). Modern strategic direction for antibacterial therapy of conjunctivitis includes the use of new antibiotics, such as quinolones, due to a little number of resistant strains. Attention should be paid to the intensification of the action of drugs: forced administration, the use of ophthalmic sustained-release forms, the use of complex products and drugs with combined action, as well as methods of administration of drugs using magnetophoresis, phonophoresis, and electrophoresis. Differential diagnosis of conjunctivitis and dacryocystitis is necessary, especially in young children, because these diseases require different approaches to treatment. Also, special attention should be paid to the necessity and validity of antibacterial therapy in different clinical forms of conjunctivitis. Modern knowledge of epidemiology, clinical manifestations, and experience are complex concepts, but individual approach is the basis of the effective treatment of inflammatory eye diseases in children.

inflammatory diseases, frontal ocular surface, ocular surface, conjunctivitis, dacryocystitis, antibacterial drugs