Can the Use of Earrings Cause Eye Pain?

Introduction: Eye pain can occur on the surface of your eye or within your eye’s deeper structures. Severe eye pain especially accompanied by any degree of vision loss may be a signal that you have a serious medical condition. Eye pain that’s on the surface of your eye might be described as itching, burning or shooting pain. Surface eye pain is often related to a foreign object in your eye, an eye infection, or anything that irritates or inflames the membrane covering the surface of your eye. You might describe eye pain originating deeper within your eye as throbbing or aching [1]. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that the use of earrings can be a causative factor of eye pain. Methods: A reading of the location of the eye in the human ear was carried out through a map showing the location of the organs according to Traditional Chinese Medicine. Results: Over two reports of clinical cases of patients with ocular pain at the time of the consultation or the acupuncture session, there was almost immediate improvement of ocular pain symptoms after removal of the earrings bilaterally. Conclusion: The use of earrings, which are usually above the eye point, according to Traditional Chinese Medicine, could be the cause of eye pain, based on these two clinical reports.