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Symptoms of Blepharitis
Blepharitis can affect your sight and, during attacks, may prevent you from doing your normal daily tasks, such as driving or reading.
Symptoms include:
- Inflamed, greasy and sore eyelids,
- Thickened and swollen eyelids,
- Sticky eyelids, especially in the morning when you wake up,
- Tiny flakes, scales or crusts that look like dandruff develop at the base of the eyelashes,
- A feeling that there is something in your eye,
- Itchiness or a burning sensation,
- Sensitivity to light (photophobia),
- Blurred and decreased vision,
- A decrease in the production of tears,
- Dry eyes,
- Frothy tears,
- Eyelashes growing inwards, and
- Occasional loss of eyelashes and scarring of the eyelids.









