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Glaucoma is one of the most common eye diseases caused primarily by the pressure build-up inside the eye, which damages the optic nerve connecting the eye with the brain. In fact, it can also lead to irreversible blindness if glaucoma treatment is not started on time.
Glaucoma is believed to be the third highest cause of the blindness across the globe, affecting more than 4.5 million people.
Glaucoma diagnosis is not an easy job, as glaucoma symptoms normally don’t appear evidently enough, developing quite slowly over an extended period of time. That’s why it’s so dangerous – a huge majority of its victims consider treatment only after observing sight loss, when the damage has already been done.
In reality, glaucoma refers to a whole group of conditions resulting from inappropriate or incomplete drainage of the normal fluid present in the eye. This lack of drainage increases pressure inside the eye (intraocular pressure or IOP), which ultimately damages the optic nerve, disrupting the normal connection between the eye and the brain, causing sight loss.
Though the precise reason behind glaucoma remains mostly unknown, various factors can increase its risk. Some of them include age, ethnicity, family history, racial background and various other medical conditions like short-sightedness and diabetes. Its victims include people of all ages, but it targets adults most frequently.
There are various types of glaucoma and the treatment depends on the particular type affecting an individual. Unfortunately, no viable glaucoma cure exists right now with no possibility to restore the damage already done to the eye due to this disease. However, you can prevent further sight loss with the help of medication or surgery, and for best results, you need lifelong glaucoma management.
Glaucoma treatment can be carried out with the help of pills, eye drops, traditional glaucoma surgery, glaucoma laser surgery or a combination of all these. Prevention of vision loss remains the ultimate objective of all these treatment methods, as glaucoma induces irreversible vision loss.
However, the good news is that glaucoma management can work effectively if the disease is diagnosed and treated early and appropriate treatment ensures that there is no further sight loss due to this eye disease.
To avoid vision loss due to glaucoma, it is quite imperative to take regular medication prescribed by your eye doctor, also discussing any possible side effects with him. Though every drug comes with a possibility of some side effects, not every patient necessarily experiences them.
You need to work with your eye doctor as a team, collectively fighting against this sight threatening disease. Your doctor has a host of treatment options, which include:
Controlling your eye pressure requires you to be regular and punctual with using the eye drops prescribed to you. Since medications like eye drops get instantly absorbed into your bloodstream, you better share with your eye doctor any other medication you’re taking at the time, so that he can assess if using them together is safe. You might encounter a burning or stinging sensation initially while using many eye drops, but such a discomfort shall not last longer than a few seconds. Make sure you hold your patience for that long.
In case eye drops don’t work well for you in controlling your IOP, your eye doctor may also prescribe you with pills. You must know that these pills supersede eye drops in systemic side effects, also turning down the eye’s faucet, reducing the fluid production in the eye. You need to take them two to four times a day in most cases.
Surgical treatment for glaucoma is prescribed only when other medication fails to yield you the desired results, or the side effects become unbearable for you.
Surgical procedures commonly used for treating glaucoma can be broadly differentiated into traditional glaucoma surgery and laser eye surgery for glaucoma. Let’s have a look at various options within them.
Laser treatment for glaucoma has gained much popularity in past few years, acting much like a stepping stone between glaucoma treatment with drugs and traditional surgery. As the name suggests, this type of treatment involves a laser beam (a high energy light beam) in fixing the drainage system of the eye.
Contrary to what many people believe somehow, instead of burning a hole through the eye, a laser beam fixes the eye’s drainage system in a quite subtle manner, ensuring an easy drain passage to the aqueous fluid of the eye, thus lowering the IOP.
Let’s have a look at some of the most common laser treatments for glaucoma:
Yes, better management of glaucoma can help you live your life in a much better way and if the disease has already damaged your eye(s), you better resort to the IrisVision, one of the best low vision aids designed to help you make the most of your leftover vision.
In fact, there are scores of people whose vision and life has improved significantly after resorting to the IrisVision, an FDA approved class 1 device. Let’s have a look at some of the IrisVision customer stories and draw inspiration by how it has transformed the lives of people suffering from various low vision conditions like glaucoma.
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