Visual snow syndrome in anadolescent girl
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Medical Case Reports - Year 2016, Vol 4, Issue 7
Abstract
We describe acase of a 14-year-old girl who had a persistent visual disturbance. She developed a constant “rain-like” pattern in front of both eyes since at the age of 8 years. These consist of white, bright, and jagged spots. Therefore, she had felt as blurred the outline of objects. In addition, she had sometimes felt a headache and tinnitus. Ophthalmological examinations were unremarkable. Initially, she was puzzled and believed that these conditions were part of the process of mental illness as visual hallucination. She was given explanation that her visual symptoms could be well understood as “visual snow”, and she was reassured that she had no mental illness. Although there was no improvement in her visual symptoms, she has been able to cope with the visual snow. We consider that an appropriate support and reassurance should be offered to those who cannot cope with their visual symptoms in patients with visual snow syndrome. Keywords:visual snow, positive persistent visual symptoms.
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Shinji Makino
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