Blepharitis is a common chronic eye inflammation that mainly affects the skin and mucosa of the eyelid margin. It is characterized by eye irritation symptoms such as dryness, itching, and foreign body sensation, accompanied by clinical manifestations such as eyelid congestion, thickening, and repeated eyelash loss. It can damage the conjunctival tissue even. Eyelid cleaning can inhibit the growth of some bacteria on the ocular surface, remove eyelid oil, secretions, and keratinized epithelial cells, clean the ocular environment, and have a good effect on treating blepharitis. In order to ensure the safety of patient treatment and guide and standardize the operation of clinical ophthalmic medical staff, led by the Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University, and jointly revised by 17 medical institutions across the country, the group standard " Operation procedure of eyelid margin cleaning based on eyelid cleaning device" was released on the National Group Standard Information Platform on December 17, 2023. This article provides an in-depth interpretation of the group's standards, detailing the indications and contraindications, key points, difficulties, and details of eyelid cleaning procedures, in order to better guide clinical medical staff in implementing standardized and effective treatment procedures, ensuring patient treatment effectiveness and safety. Aiming to standardize and promote the precise development of eyelid margin cleaning procedures based on eyelid cleaning devices, and provide important standard basis for promoting the level of medical and nursing precision application of anterior segment diseases in China.
