Experience of treating trachoma with repeated extrusions according to Filatov in combination with drug therapy

Since the time of prof. Filatov's proposal of his method of treating trachoma (Russian Ophthalmological Journal, No. 8, 1931), several reports have appeared in our periodical press confirming the simplicity, radicalism and effectiveness of this method of treatment. Without touching upon the issue of combating trachoma in general, we believe that having such a method of treatment in our hands could be one of the main links in the general chain of measures to combat trachoma. This circumstance obliges us to start testing the proposed method of treatment, which we began to do starting in 1935.

The main contingent of our patients are preschool and school-age children with trachoma of the first and second stages.