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> A key cause of keratoconus seems to be excessive eye rubbing Your link does not say that. Nor does any other that I could google in 10 minutes, including no
by wombatmobile 6y ago
> A key cause of keratoconus seems to be excessive eye rubbing
Your link does not say that. Nor does any other that I could google in 10 minutes, including not Mayo Clinic.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/keratoconus/symptoms-causes/syc-20351352 https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/keratoconus/s...
- robin_reala 6y agoSorry, missed your reply. The papers linked to from the Wikipedia article that indicate this outcome include: https://journals.lww.com/corneajrnl/Abstract/2004/08000/Asymmetric_Keratoconus_Attributed_to_Eye_Rubbing.6.aspx https://journals.lww.com/corneajrnl/Abstract/2004/08000/Asym... https://www.ajo.com/article/S0002-9394(04)00932-8/fulltext https://www.ajo.com/article/S0002-9394(04)00932-8/fulltext https://journals.lww.com/corneajrnl/Fulltext/2000/07000/Keratoconus_Associated_with_Continual_Eye_Rubbing.34.aspx https://journals.lww.com/corneajrnl/Fulltext/2000/07000/Kera... https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1444-0938.2003.tb03082.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1444-0938.... https://bjo.bmj.com/content/84/8/834 https://bjo.bmj.com/content/84/8/834 https://journals.lww.com/claojournal/Abstract/2008/11000/Bilateral_Recurrent_Self_Induced_Keratoconus.14.aspx https://journals.lww.com/claojournal/Abstract/2008/11000/Bil...