What Is Thyroid Eye Disease?

Thyroid Eye Disease is a disease that causes inflammation and swelling in the tissues behind the eye. It usually develops in people with Graves disease. Symptoms include irritation, redness, and inflammation of the eye, sensitivity to light, bulging of the eyes, and double vision.

Treatment includes limiting inflammation and swelling of the eye through cool compresses, sunglasses, lubricating eye drops, steroids, supplements, and sometimes surgery. There is no standard medication treatment for thyroid eye disease, but there is one FDA approved drug (Tepezza) approved to treat it.