Sensitive To Light

Sources such as sunlight fluorescent light and incandescent light all can cause discomfort along with a need to squint or close your eyes.

Sensitive to light. Light sensitivity is a condition in which bright lights hurt your eyes. Sensitivity to light or photophobia means intolerance to light not the fear of it. That light could be anything from fluorescent lights the sun incandescent light bulbs and other strong sources of light including the one from your computer or tablet screen. Sensitive to light small constricted.

Flickering uncolored zig zag line in vision floating spots or strings in vision sensitive to light. It s a common symptom that s associated with several different conditions. Photophobia or light sensitivity is an intolerance of light. Sensitivity to light is a common symptom sometimes the first symptom of trouble with your eyes.

Light sensitive people sometimes are bothered only by bright light. Sensitivity to light is a classic dry eye symptom as are dryness obviously stinging burning pain redness discharge scratchiness and feeling like something is in your eye even if there s. As a medical symptom photophobia is not a morbid fear or phobia but an experience of discomfort or pain to the eyes due to light exposure or by presence of actual physical sensitivity of the eyes though the term is sometimes additionally applied to abnormal or irrational fear of light such as heliophobia. Another name for this condition is photophobia.

Headaches also may accompany light sensitivity. Aversion to light is actually the eye s way of protecting itself when it is injured or infected because your eye has a better chance of healing itself when at rest. Photophobia is a symptom of abnormal intolerance to visual perception of light.