Clinical Features

• Chronic or recurrent red, swollen eyelids and irregular eyelid margins

• Crusty, scaly plaques, and/or oily deposits on the eyelid margin and eyelashes

  • Crusting usually represents seborrheic disease.

  • A ringlike collection around the eyelashes (collarette) with ulceration upon removal (ulcerative blepharitis) is typical of staphylococcal disease.

  • A smooth tubular collection at the base of the eyelash is typical of Demodex.

• Pain

• Itchiness

• Foreign body sensation, watering of the eye

• Photophobia, blurred vision

It is a clinical diagnosis