Clinical observation of Integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine therapy on herpes simplex keratitis

Objective To observe the effect of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine therapy on herpes simplex keratitis.Methods 186 patients with herpes simplex keratitis(including 213 eyes) were randomly divided into two groups.90 patients in control group(including 102 eyes) were treated by Ganciclovir,ophthalmic gel,Levofloxacin eyedrops and intravenous injection of antiviral drug.96 patients in treatment group(including 111 eyes) were treated by combination of Traditional Chinese medicine and routine therapy.The clinical effect was observed by corneal fluorescein staining in two groups before and after treatment.Results The excellence,effective,ineffective,the total effective rate in treatment group(76 eyes,30 eyes,5 eyes,95.49%) were higher than those in control group(63 eyes,27 eye,12 eyes,88.24%,P0.05).Conclusion Integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine therapy has high cure rate and good efficacy on herpes simplex keratitis,it was superior to that of routine therapy.