Sunday 24 January 2016

Symptoms Of Glaucoma San Antonio

By Gary Turner


Glaucoma is a serious disease that results in the damage of optic nerves and can result into total blindness if not treated in time. Various studies by scientists have shown that the disease is caused by increased pressure within an eye. To avoid these defects it is very important to educate people on how to maintain the pressure within the eye. Glaucoma San Antonio should be avoided by ensuring that pressure within the eye fluid is well regulated.

Severe high blood pressure can result into this kind of infection. It is very important to have regular eye checkup so that in case one is affected, can seek treatment as early as possible since the early the better. The optical nerves have different strengths. The very strong ones can tolerate high pressure meaning that the chances of infection are very low. This means that the fluid within an eye could be experiencing high pressure but one is not suffering from the disease.

A person who does not suffer from increased pressure can suffer from a type called low-tension or normal tension one. All individuals in city San Antonio TX can suffer from the ailment. However, American Africans who are above 40 years are likely to suffer from the diseases; people with a family history of the disease are too at higher risk. The Mexican Americans who are above 60 years of age are at a higher risk of contracting the disease.

The illness begins by causing the side blindness where one cannot detect items on the sides. The ailment can attack either one or both eyes. Immediately after the side blindness and there is no immediate remedy if the person become totally blind. The test performed on condition of eye are, the acuity test whose intention is to determine how far one can see.

The ability to see object located on the side is examined by visual field exam. Dilated test tries to investigate the interior of the eyes with the help of advanced equipment. Tonometry measures the pressure within the eye while the pachymetry test finds out the level of the spread of the disease.

It is also very important to note that once one has suffered from the disease there is no cure, meaning that the eyesight cannot be restored. At early stages of glaucoma treatment may tend to delay the progress of disease. It is therefore very important to perform early diagnosis to recognize the problem and commence the treatment in time.

Treatment is mainly done with the use of medicines. In this case eye drops or the pills are mainly used forms of treatments. The medicine applied either prevents eye from making more fluid or lower the pressure by letting the fluid drain from an eye. The other type of treatment is the laser trabeculoplasty that is used to help in draining the fluid out of the eye. This is usually performed after the doctor has been advised to do so.

The surgical procedure is the most expensive type and an opening which is hole like is made on the eye with the intention of eliminating the fluid that is the major cause of increase in pressure. It is the most expensive method of treatment and is usually done after all others are unable to bear the required results.




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