An anterior segment OCT study showed that the corneas of children who frequently rub their eyes have abnormal epithelial thickness distribution, with thinning in the inferotemporal area on the dominant-hand side.
“This thinning could represent one of the earliest stages of keratoconus,” Tomás Loureiro, MD, said at the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting.
Eye rubbing is recognized as the strongest nongenetic risk factor for keratoconus, but this association is based on retrospective clinical reports. This study prospectively evaluated in vivo the effects of