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My 80 year old father has age related macular degeneration. Doctors at vasan eye say his one eye is plain and the other has faded central and partial margin vision. Pl suggest any non surgical treatment to retard ARMD in the working eye, any special food or drug supplement. He can take Betoxid Plus-- Does that help?
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Hello There is one drug supplement that may help in retarding the progression of ARMD...you may use I- site capsule These have constituents based on AREDS trial
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Age related macular degeneration ( ARMD) is old age problem ,more longivity,more chance of ARMD,in USA longvity of American people is more than Indian that is why people suffering from ARMD is much more than India, There is no direct medicine to check or prevent ARMD but you may give antioxidant tablet once daily , there is no direct role but literature says that it slows the progress of ARMD.(tab vitalux plus once daily marketed by novartis in India)
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