Headache related to eye Diseases

• Refractive errors
• Muscle Imbalance : If it is marked it may cause squint but if it is not so much it may cause
  • 1. Latent Squint: In this condition, the eye remains straight in normal gaze but gets squinted on strain and tiredness. Squint is seen on covering one eye - the covered eye becomes squinted. the imbalance, in this case, is not so much to cause obvious squint. Eye muscles try to maintain binocular vision. This causes strain and headaches. Mostly it is due to refractive error and correction may give relief from headaches.
  • 2. Convergence insufficiency: Normally both eyes go inside for near work. This is known as convergence. Due to muscle weakness or refractive errors sometimes they fail to come together for near work causing strain and headache on near work. Correction of refractive errors and convergence exercises may give relief.
• Eye diseases causing headache:
  • 1. Acute congestive glaucoma: In angle-closure glaucoma, if there is a sudden rise of Intraocular pressure the patient experience severe pain in the eyes along with headache and nausea, and vomiting. This is known as acute congestive glaucoma.
  • 2. Lens Induced glaucoma
  • 3. Acute Uveitis
  • 4. Etc