Eye Eye!!

Please can someone tell me what is the english medical term for an eye problem that they call "U?a" here, now i know u?a is a nail, but a family member has a small cloudy patch on the white part of their eye that is not starting to protrude onto the iris and becoming bothersome. Everyone keeps saying "oh they have an u?a" and i would like to research the problem online but have no idea what is the english equivalent is and have looked at many conditions and photots online with no luck so far.

I dont trust opticians nor doctors here and research everything myself as a back up ha ha.

Thank you, now i have the latin name also from wikipedia for it that will help me when the optician gives his diagnosis. The good thing is it doesnt sound like an operation is nessasary, just the correct antibiotic or antifungal treatment.

I will report back with whatever the optician comes up with, maybe it will be caused by faries and to be treated he will have to jump up and down 1000 times while eating grass and bleating like a goat ha ha.

Thanks again

rubio_higuey said:

Don't want to hijack your thread, so I will just comment briefly about the "doctors" here:

I do research everything as well, last year when my GERD returned after several years, I really investigated a lot online and I knew more about it than maybe the doctor herself, and she was really upset by the questions I was giving her about meds (as I already researched everything about various types of meds and the differences, effects, halftimes, etc.)

she asked me... "Quien es el medico aqui..?" I told her some nice things to her face, that if she cannot support that patients are being more and better informed these days with the help of Internet and sites like webmd, emedicine, etc. and not living in dark ages anymore where they blindly trust the doctors, she should not practice medicine or open up a consultorio in some God-forgotten campo where smart-asses like me would not bother her "medical supremacy" with questions and comments... she was very upset and needless to say I changed the doctors.

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I do the same, i ask questions and they are obviosuly not used to it. I also get them to explain all meds on the prescription too. I went to the doctors recently as i thought i had some kind of allergy and couldnt breath very well through my nose. He put four things on the prescription one was a decongestant, but one was an injection for pain relief, more pills for pain in the body. When i asked him why he had prescibed them he said "well for the pain in your body", "What pain in my body" i replied?!?!?!?

So most of the time they make it up as they go along, i know there has been similar threads but maybe its time for a new one as i am shocked to think why the insurance companies are not more interested and or investigate the millions they waste on unnessesary tests and prescriptions.

My sister in law went to the doctors recently for a problem with her Ri?ones (why does everyone suffer with this here?) and he prescribed her a pill for the nervous system causing her to be rushed to emergency as she had a bit of a turn and couldnt speak. Now imagine if that was a child?!?!?!

Also (as i am on a roll) problems with pharmacies is HUGE!! You can buy anything over the counter you want without prescription, they dont take your presciption so you can go back time and time again, you can go with a prescription in someone elses name, and the staff are not trained nor knowledgeable enough to be handing over medication to every tom, dick and harry.

Ok rant over...for now