Complementary treatment of contact lens-induced corneal ulcer using honey: A case report

Clinical Characteristics of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia Keratitis

“…[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] Penland and Wilhelmus 4 reported 15 cases of ocular infections caused by S. maltophilia, including 8 patients with corneal ulcers; however, only data on age, sex, risk factors, and culture results were available. The clinical data for our cases, including demographics, clinical presentation, risk factors, and treatments, were similar to those of the previously reported cases (Table 3).…”

“…maltophilia is a nonfermentative Gram-negative bacillus that occurs commonly in the environment but is an uncommon causative pathogen of corneal infections. Previous studies on S. maltophilia keratitis primarily consist of case reports, [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] from which the prevalence of keratitis caused by …”

“…[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] The characteristics of the previously reported cases were compared with those of our study by using the Wilcoxon rank-sum test for continuous variables and Fisher exact test for categorical variables. P , 0.05 was considered statistically significant.…”

“…Existing knowledge of S. maltophilia keratitis is based on sporadic case reports and a small case series. [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] In this study, we performed a retrospective review of patients with cultureproven S. maltophilia keratitis in our hospital from 2003 to 2014, to evaluate the clinical characteristics, predisposing factors, treatment modalities, and visual outcomes of S. maltophilia keratitis, and we compared our results with those from previous studies.…”

Honey: A Natural Remedy for Eye Diseases

“…Furthermore, it has been shown that honey reduces redness and swelling and eradicates ocular bacterial infections of the conjunctiva [5]. In our very recent study, honey in the form of a sterile 25% (w/v) honey solution was used for the complementary treatment of a contact lens-related corneal ulcer [6].…”