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Prevalence of Conjunctivitis in Patients Referred to Tertiary Eye Hospital, Raipur

 Divya Sharma* and Varaprasad Kolla

The study aims to investigate the prevalence of conjunctivitis in patients who referred to tertiary eye hospital Raipur. This was a prospective cross-sectional observational community-based study involving 150 patients from Shri Ganesh Vinayak Eye Hospital, Raipur. Total number of subjects with conjunctivitis screened was 150. Out of 150 subjects 62 were children. The cases of conjunctivitis further categorized based on etiology prevalence of allergic conjunctivitis were 94 (62.66%), prevalence of viral conjunctivitis was 36 (24%), and prevalence of bacterial conjunctivitis was 20 (13.33%). The present study highlights that the allergic conjunctivitis has a high among the people age is lacking amongst the affected populations. The sign, symptoms and consideration of the background of conjunctivitis as well as the therapeutic procedures should be assessed.