Atypical symptom
Doctors began to find out what kind of pathology could cause such changes that caused severe redness of the eyes in the child.
Within three weeks, the girl was tested for HIV, syphilis and Lyme disease. They gave a negative result. Urinalysis was normal. The girl underwent x-rays and computed tomography of the chest and abdomen, MRI. No significant pathologies were found.
“The girl had no fever, weight loss, night sweats, rash, headache, cough, shortness of breath and joint pain,” doctors say about the unusual case. She looked good, without any oral lesions or rashes. Visual acuity has not changed. There was no drug allergy.
As a result, the doctors suggested that the girl’s red eyes are a symptom of latent tuberculosis. It was diagnosed in a child 6 months before the appearance of complaints of redness of the eyes after a positive test result for interferon-gamma.
“Then the child was recommended to undergo treatment for a latent tuberculosis infection, but the parents ignored the advice of doctors and did not give the girl medicine,” the publication says. – Apparently, the redness of the eyes of the child was a reaction to the fact that her body is fighting a latent infection.