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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Overview

There are multiple conditions which lead to eye pain. It is commonly confused with other symptoms like headache, sinus pain.

Causes

Causes are classfied as common causes , based on organ system and in alphabetical order.

Common causes

The common causes include:

• Blepharitis
• Corneal abrasions
• Conjunctivitis
• A sty or stye
• Foreign bodies
• Glaucoma
• Iritis or Uveitis
• Optic neuritis
• Sinusitis

System based

Cardiovascular	Ocular ischemic syndrome
Chemical / poisoning	|Marine toxins
Dermatologic	No underlying causes
Drug Side Effect	Levofloxacin, Metipranolol Ophthalmic (patient information), Acitretin (patient information), Alitretinoin (patient information), Amlodipine (patient information), Amphotericin B Injection (patient information), Atropine, Brimonidine Ophthalmic (patient information), Brinzolamide Ophthalmic (patient information), Carteolol (patient information), Corticosteroid, Dexamethasone Ophthalmic (patient information), Dipivefrin Ophthalmic (patient information), Epirubicin Injection (patient information), Ganciclovir (patient information), Gentamicin Ophthalmic (patient information), Hyoscyamine (patient information), Idoxuridine Ophthalmic (patient information), Latanoprost , Levofloxacin, Lodoxamide Ophthalmic (patient information), Lodoxamide Ophthalmic (patient information), Nepafenac ophthalmic (patient information), Oculogyric crisis, Ofloxacin , Peginterferon alfa-2a (patient information), Pentazocine and naloxone (patient information), Prednisolone ophthalmic (patient information), Ranibizumab injection (patient information), Travoprost Ophthalmic (patient information), Voriconazole (patient information), Zaleplon (patient information), Zoledronic Acid Injection (patient information), Idarubicin (patient information), Idoxuridine Ophthalmic (patient information), Mitomycin (patient information), Anagrelide (patient information), Bimatoprost Ophthalmic (patient information), Moxifloxacin ophthalmic (patient information)
Ear Nose Throat	Sinusitis
Endocrine	Graves' Disease
Environmental	No underlying causes
Gastroenterologic	No underlying causes
Genetic	Stickler syndrome
Hematologic	Thrombocytosis
Iatrogenic	No underlying causes
Infectious Disease	Bacterial Whipple's disease, Sinusitis, Meningitis Viral Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Dengue fever, Ebola, Herpes zoster Fungal Aspergillosis Parasitic Ocular larva migrans
Musculoskeletal / Ortho	Trochleitis, Stickler syndrome
Neurologic	Boehm syndrome, Cluster headache, Meningitis, Migraine, Neuralgia, Optic neuritis, Optic neuropathy, Retinitis pigmentosa, Trigeminal neuralgia, Insomnia, Neuropathy
Nutritional / Metabolic	No underlying causes
Obstetric/Gynecologic	No underlying causes
Oncologic	No underlying causes
Opthalmologic	Band keratopathy, Blepharitis , Stye, Chalazion, Entropion, Iridocyclitis, Scleritis, Red Eye, Exopthalmos, Recurrent corneal erosion, Uveitis, Aniseikonia, Computer vision syndrome, Conjunctivitis, Corneal abrasion, Corneal ulcer, Iridocyclitis, Iritis, Keratitis, Keratoconjunctivitis sicca, Keratoconus, Endophthalmitis, Trochleitis, Ocular ischemic syndrome, Glaucoma
Overdose / Toxicity	No underlying causes
Psychiatric	Insomnia, Paroxysmal extreme pain disorder, Phantom eye syndrome, Phantom pain
Pulmonary	No underlying causes
Renal / Electrolyte	No underlying causes
Rheum / Immune / Allergy	Sarcoidosis, Behcet's disease, Sympathetic ophthalmia, Systemic lupus erythematosus, Wegener's granulomatosis, Stevens-Johnson syndrome
Sexual	No underlying causes
Trauma	Eye injury
Urologic	No underlying causes
Dental	No underlying causes
Miscellaneous	No underlying causes

Alphabetical order

The alphabetical order will be so

Acitretin (patient information)

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

Alitretinoin (patient information)

Amlodipine (patient information)

Amphotericin B Injection (patient information)

Anagrelide (patient information)

Aniseikonia

Aspergillosis

Atropine

Band keratopathy

Behect's disease

Bimatoprost Ophthalmic (patient information)

Blepharitis

Boehm syndrome

Brimonidine Ophthalmic (patient information)

Brinzolamide Ophthalmic (patient information)

Carteolol (patient information)

Chalazion

Cluster headache

Computer vision syndrome

Conjunctivitis

Corneal abrasion

Corneal ulcer

Corticosteroid

Dengue fever

Dexamethasone Ophthalmic (patient information)

Dipivefrin Ophthalmic (patient information)

Ebola

Endophthalmitis

Entropion

Epirubicin Injection (patient information)

Exopthalmos

Eye injury

Ganciclovir (patient information)

Gentamicin Sulfate Opthalmic (patient information)

Glaucoma

Graves' Disease

Herpes zoster

Hyoscyamine (patient information)

Idarubicin (patient information)

Idoxuridine Ophthalmic (patient information)

Insomnia

Iridocyclitis

Iritis

Keratitis

Keratoconjunctivitis sicca

Keratoconus

Latanoprost

Levofloxacin

Lodoxamide Ophthalmic (patient information)

Marine toxins

Meningitis

Metipranolol Ophthalmic (patient information)

Migraine

Mitomycin (patient information)

Moxifloxacin ophthalmic (patient information)

Nepafenac ophthalmic (patient information)

Neuralgia

Neuropathy

Ocular ischemic syndrome

Ocular larva migrans

Oculogyric crisis

Ofloxacin

Optic neuritis

Optic neuropathy

Paroxysmal extreme pain disorder

Peginterferon alfa-2a (patient information)

Pentazocine and naloxone (patient information)

Phantom eye syndrome

Phantom pain

Prednisolone ophthalmic (patient information)

Ranibizumab injection (patient information)

Recurrent corneal erosion

Red Eye

Retinitis pigmentosa

Sarcoidosis

Scleritis

Sinusitis

Stevens-Johnson syndrome

Stickler syndrome

Stye

Sympathetic ophthalmia

Systemic lupus erythematosus

Thrombocytosis

Travoprost Ophthalmic (patient information)

Trigeminal neuralgia

Trochleitis

Uveitis

Voriconazole (patient information)

Wegener's granulomatosis

Whipple's disease

Zaleplon (patient information)

Zoledronic Acid Injection (patient information)

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• Band keratopathy
• Chalazion
• Corneal ulcer
• Entropion conjunctivitis
• Ethmoid sinus
• Eye strain
• Febrile Disease
• Frontal sinus
• Glaucoma
• Hordeolum
• Interstitial keratitis
• Iridocyclitis
• Iritis
• Ocular foreign body
• Ocular herpetic calcification
• Retrobulbar neuritis
• Sphenoid sinus
• Thyrotoxicosis