Atypical symptom
Doctors began to find out what kind of pathology could cause such changes that caused severe redness of the eyes in the baby.
Within three weeks, the girl was tested for HIV, syphilis and Lyme disease. They gave negative results. Urinalysis was normal. The girl underwent X-ray and computed tomography of the chest and abdomen, MRI. No significant pathologies were found.
“The girl had no fever, weight loss, night sweats, rash, headache, cough, shortness of breath and joint pain,” the doctors say about the unusual case. She looked good, with no oral lesions or rashes. Her visual acuity hasn’t changed. There was no drug allergy.
As a result, doctors suggested that the girl’s red eyes were a symptom of latent tuberculosis. It was diagnosed in a baby 6 months before the onset of red eye symptoms after a positive interferon-gamma test result.
“The child was then advised to undergo treatment for a latent tuberculous infection, but the parents ignored the doctors’ advice and gave the girl no medicine,” the publication says. Apparently, the redness of the child’s eyes was a reaction to the fact that her body was fighting a latent infection.
