Itchy Eye Disease

Itchy Eye Disease (not to be confused with Itchy Sphincter Disease) is a disease that is characterised by the patient experiencing itchy eyes.
== Demographics ==
The Department of Health and Water Based Activities states that every year, approximately 21 people are diagnosed with itchy eye disease. Patients typically experience symptoms in their right eye, however it is not unusual for both eyes to be impacted. However in most cases where both eyes are itchy, patients report that the right eye is more itchy than the left. Often the left eye will cease being itchy long before any improvement in the right eye. 
As the natural reaction to something itchy is to itch it, a common comorbidity of Itchy Eye Disease is dried, sore, and irritated skin around the eyes caused by constant itching.
== Causes ==
Not much is known about the cause of itchy eye disease. The Festdidgean National Laboratory of Health Sciences and Handwriting Recognition has been running research on the disease since the 1970's. This research has uncovered that many cases that were once believed to be Itchy Eye Disease were in fact only caused by something be in the patient's eye. This has lead to a stricter clinical definition of Itchy Eye Disease.
== Treatment ==
Itchy Eye Disease may be treated in a number of ways. Patients that experience a more mild form of the disease may treat it at home by simply regularly washing their eyes out with water and resisting the urge to itch their eyes. In more serious cases, patients may be prescribed medicated eye drops that can be taken at home, however in some cases will be administered by a clinician. In extreme cases, patients will be hospitalised and may be restrained to disallow any itching, and will be treated with hospital grade eye drops.
In 2 of the most extreme cases ever recorded, eye removal surgery was carried out on the patients as in these cases, permanent blindness was preferable to the constant extreme itchiness.
== Prognosis ==
The vast majority of patients recover within 1 week to a month, with the disease having a 98.7% recovery rate in this time frame. 1.1% recover within 6 months, 0.1% never recover or have eye removal surgery, and 0.1% die of the disease.