Glaucoma Health Feed

Glaucoma can be developed or inherited; it usually refers to the accumulation of fluid inside a person's eyes leading to excessive pressure on his or her optic nerve.

How to diagnose the symptoms of glaucoma:

A fundamental eye examination: An experienced eye doctor will check the dilated pupils of your eyes so as to take a closer look at the optic nerve that further discerns the stage of glaucoma a patient is in. Doctors tend to keep track of the sequential progression of glauc...more

Glaucoma is a group of diseases that causes damage to your eye's optic nerve and gets worse over time. The optic nerve is a bundle of millions of nerve fibres which carry visual impulse from the retina at the back of eye to the brain. The increased Eye pressure, called intraocular pressure, can damage the optic nerve and fasten the natural nerve fibre loss. Since nerve cells can't regenerate this damage is permanent and irreversible.

Without treatment, glaucoma can cause total permanent...more

Glaucoma: An Overview
This disease can be developed or inherited; it usually refers to the accumulation of fluid inside a person's eyes leading to excessive pressure on his or her optic nerve.

How to Diagnose the Symptoms of Glaucoma:

A Fundamental Eye Examination: An experienced eye doctor will check the dilated pupils of your eyes so as to take a closer look at the optic nerve that further discerns the stage of glaucoma a patient is in. Doctors tend to keep track on the s...more

Any patient who needs to undergo cataract surgery must be evaluated in a thorough manner so as to establish the requirement, appropriateness, expected surgical problems, expected benefits and co-morbid conditions having an influence on cataract surgery.

The preoperative assessment consists of -

A test for your existing glasses prescription:

It is useful for your cataract surgeon to know your existing glasses prescription in cases where there is a high refractive error ...more

While an eye exam should be conducted for anybody at least every six months, many people do not believe it to be so important. However, there are benefits to having a comprehensive eye exam. But, what exactly are these benefits?

Eye Check-ups are Indicative
To start with, when one goes for an eye exam, problems relating not just to the eyes can be discovered. As a matter of fact, an ophthalmologist or an eye specialist is quite often the first person to detect problems with the enti...more

It may not be possible in most of the cases. However, it is safe and gentle and can boost the healing process and help stop the chronic tendencies and aid recovery in some cases (depends upon the response of the body to the treatment ).

By laser surgery, did you mean just laser application or proper surgery for glaucoma was done? If after the laser or surgery, if iop rose, that means failure of the treatment. But since with eye drops, since the pressure is under control, leave it at it. But yes, regular 6monthly (atleast) follow up is needed.

Hi, Lybrate user,
•Go for a walk in the morning to restore blood circulation to nourish your body. •Go for meditation to reduce your stress to keep intraocular pressure in control.
•Tk,  plenty of water to hydrate your body. •Your diet be easily digestible on time to check gastric disorder that triggers eye pressure. •Keep in touch with your eye consultant, regularly.
•Monitor your medication, ,always.
•Regulate all sort of anti diabetics/ antihypertensive  norms ,if you are diab...more

In general, glaucoma cannot be cured, but it can be controlled. Eye drops, pills, laser procedures, and surgical operations are used to prevent or slow further damage from occurring. With any type of glaucoma, regular eye examinations are very important to detect progression and to prevent vision loss.