{"id":57,"date":"2021-09-01T12:01:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T12:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eyecare-information-service.org.uk\/?page_id=57"},"modified":"2021-09-01T12:01:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T12:01:40","slug":"episcleritis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eyecare-information-service.org.uk\/episcleritis\/","title":{"rendered":"Episcleritis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Episcleritis is an inflammatory condition of the connective tissue between the conjunctiva and sclera known as the episclera. The eye&#8217;s red appearance makes it look similar to conjunctivitis, or pink eye, but there is no discharge or tearing. It usually has no apparent cause; however, it is sometimes associated with systemic inflammatory conditions such as arthritis, lupus, and inflammatory bowel disease. Rosacea, herpes simplex, gout, tuberculosis, and other diseases are also occasionally underlying causes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Women are typically affected by episcleritis more frequently than men. It characteristically occurs in people who are in their 30&#8217;s and 40&#8217;s and is often a recurrent problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Episcleritis is an inflammatory condition of the connective tissue between the conjunctiva and sclera known as the episclera. The eye&#8217;s red appearance makes it look similar to conjunctivitis, or pink eye, but there is no discharge or tearing. It usually has no apparent cause; however, it is sometimes associated with &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecare-information-service.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecare-information-service.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecare-information-service.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecare-information-service.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecare-information-service.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecare-information-service.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecare-information-service.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}