Acupuncture treatment of 40 patients with dry eye.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 9 Acupuncture treatment of 40 patients with dry eye Of: Wei Lixin Yang Wei, Wang was, Ding Ruiqing [Keywords:] acupuncture therapy; dry eye; tear secretion Dry eye is due to abnormal tear quality or quantity, or caused by abnormal tear dynamics and ocular surface tear film instability in the damage, which appears dry eye, foreign body sensation, burning, itching, photophobia, blurred vision the clinical symptoms, to the patient’s daily life and work of great impact. I use acupuncture and moxibustion treatment of this disease smoke-free, and artificial tears as control with medicine, are reported below. 1 Materials and Methods 1.1 General Information Case of 80 cases observed from July 2008 -2009 12-month period in Beijing Tongren Hospital, China Academy of Traditional Acupuncture and hospital out-patient, based on random number table, patients were randomly divided into 2 groups. The treatment group, 40 patients, 78 eyes; M 10 patients, 30 females; aged 19 to 68 years (mean 44.75 + -17.06 years); shortest course of disease 2 months, up to 12 years, the average (30.18 + -31.69) months. control group of 40 patients, 78 eyes; 13 males and 27 females; aged 19 to 67 years (mean 42.98 + -12.54 years); the shortest duration of 1 month, maximum of 20 years, mean (30.20 + -43.76) general information on .2 group, the difference not statistically significant (Pgt; 0.05), comparable. 1.2 Diagnostic criteria Reference lt;lt;TCM Syndrome Diagnostic efficacy of the standardgt;gt; [1]: ① dry eye, foreign body sensation, visual fatigue, drying, etc. may be associated with mouth and nose; ② tear secretion (Schirmer Law) lt;10 mm / 5 min; ③ tear film break up time lt;10 s. more than three in any two cases of positive selection as a standard. 1.3 The inclusion and exclusion criteria Inclusion criteria: meet the diagnostic criteria and who signed informed consent. Exclusion criteria: ① do not meet the diagnostic criteria and cas