Figure 2.

Images from three representative patients affected by dry eye, herpetic keratitis and adenoviral keratoconjunctivitis. Representative images of ocular conditions that may benefit from the use of lactoferrin: dry eye (A), herpetic keratitis (B) and epidemic keratoconjunctivitis (C). (a) Slit lamp photograph of the cornea of a patient with dry eye after the instillation of 20 μL of unpreserved 2% sodium fluorescein and use of the yellow filter to enhance the staining details. The epithelial damage is visible with fluorescein staining as multiple punctate epithelial erosions scattered over the corneal surface, in particular in the lower sectors. (b) Slit lamp photograph of the cornea of a patient with herpetic keratitis after the instillation of 20 μL of unpreserved 2% sodium fluorescein and use of the yellow filter to enhance the staining details. Classical dendritic epithelial defects are visible with positive fluorescein staining. (c) Slit lamp photograph of a patient with adenoviral conjunctivitis showing multifocal sub-epithelial (stromal) corneal infiltrates.