How to treat glaucoma eye and preserve vision?
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Vision helps us to perceive the outside world in the fullness of his points. But not everyone properly belongs to his eyes. Many people forget about caring and care attitude often leads to complications or even worse, the loss of the ability to see and perceive the world.
Glaucoma is one of the worst diseases of the eye in our time. This is due to the fact that the man not only loses sight but also suffering from elevated intraocular pressure.
In spite of the severe symptoms of the disease, glaucoma still treated not only medication but also to traditional methods.
Glaucoma is called cataract eye. Shades of cloud often whitish with a blue or light green shade. In this disease in humans is reduced sharply rises vision and intraocular pressure, which leads to strong discomfort.
Rise intraocular pressure may itself, or as a result of postponed or time has not eliminated the disease. As a result of glaucoma in humans suffering from the optic nerve. If you do not begin to treat disease in time, it will contribute to the full, unrecoverable loss of vision.
Intraocular fluid circulates poorly, which causes all boolean.Chase this disease occurs in the elderly and people over 40. However, glaucoma is the teenage and even innate. Sometimes glaucoma affects both eyes and is almost at the same time. The disease is chronic.
Symptoms of the disease:
In time to realize that vision problem are caused by glaucoma, it is necessary to know the three main symptoms of this disease. The main signs of glaucoma are:
change and deformation of the optic nerve;
high, excessive pressure within the eye;
impaired vision, the viewing restriction.
How to recognize the increased intraocular pressure? There are several factors that speak about the pressure on the eyeball:
- slight pain around the eyes;
- poor ability to see in the dark;
- feeling over-moist eyes;
- cutting sensation;
appearance hazy effect in the concentration.
Glaucoma can occur abruptly, to develop a strong attack. With this attack, the patient arises cutting pain in the eyeballs, which, after moves to eyebrows, Vicki, ears and can be accompanied by nausea and vomiting. But the disease can develop gradually.
Preparations for the treatment of glaucoma eye
At the initial stage of the disease, specialists use drugs which contribute to the normalization of intraocular pressure in normal blood supply to support the inner shell eyes.
Primary glaucoma occurs in the following forms:
Open-;
closure;
Mixed.
Pilocarpine - drops for treating glaucoma
angle-closure glaucoma treatment
During the treatment of angle-closure glaucoma drops are used, which are able to narrow the pupil of the eye and cause spasm of the ciliary muscle. This helps to disclose the anterior chamber angle, promotes uniform outflow of moisture, however, it causes a blurred vision.
These medications include:
2.1% pilocarpine solutions;
carbachol solutions izopto- 1.5-3%;
pilokaprina hydrochloride solutions with 1% methylcellulose.
These medicines help to alleviate the short-term since the angle-closure glaucoma optic atrophy occurs much faster.
Patients with this form of the disease are often necessary to resort to surgery.
Administered in operation, if none of the drugs did bring relief and increased intraocular pressure suspended.
Timolol - eye drops
Treatment of open angle glaucoma
Patients with open-angle glaucoma are necessary to achieve the elimination of excessive moisture through the trabecular meshwork. The main task, which will contribute to a speedy recovery dynamics, is the selection of essential drugs, which include:
- ti mop tika solutions of 0.25% and 0.5%;
- ti mop tika depot;
- often-timolol solution of 0.25% and 0.5%;
- Betaxolol hydrochloride solution;
- suspension Betoptic -S 0,25%;
- Xalatan 0.005% solution;
- Travatan solution of 0, 004%.
- The above solutions are contraindicated for people suffering from heart failure, asthma, disorders of the heart.
- All drugs in this series exclude the possibility of increasing the volume of the pupil, as well as accommodation.
Drugs with combined action prescribed glaucoma patients with mixed forms of manifestation.
trusopta 2% solution;
Azopt 2% solution.
Surgical treatment of glaucoma
In the early stages of the disease, ophthalmologists recommend laser treatment of glaucoma. The operation is performed under local anesthesia and does not require hospitalization. However, in more recent and severe cases, doctors have to resort to surgery.
There are several ways by which the disease is eliminated surgically:
trabeculectomy
This surgery allows you to create new channels of drainage of aqueous humor from the anterior chamber of the eye under the conjunctiva. Thus, alternative ways of fluid withdrawal, in consequence of which decreases pressure on the eyeball.
This technique is used most often and is used for the treatment of almost all forms of glaucoma, but as with any surgery can cause complications pleased. Postoperative scars can become chronic, and glaucoma and loss of vision back to the previous stage.
sclerotic ectomy
The advantage of this fairly widespread operation is that the natural mechanisms of the outflow of excess fluid are not violated. The fluid pressure inside the eye drops to the required performance.
Unlike trabeculectomy with this surgery, there are no blockade artificial aqueous humor outflow pathways by means of scarring that often occurs in young people.
In carrying out such an operation, it is possible to use and other surgical procedures in the aftermath. There is also no risk of infection and vascular sheath detachments.
colectomy
This surgery, in which the surgeon removes the pupillary block and creates a parallel path of the outflow of aqueous humor from the posterior to the anterior chamber.
The result of this procedure will be different in pressure equalization chamber of the eye and eliminate the discomfort, pain and blurred vision.
treatment of cataract without surgery at an early stage of cataract alone can be treated without surgery traditional methods.
Preparations for the treatment of viral conjunctivitis in children, see this article.
Glaucoma Treatment folk remedies
Eyewash. Calendula Flowers are one of the most popular tools in the treatment of glaucoma. This infusion is used for rinsing the eyes and as a lotion for the night. 3 teaspoons of calendula flowers filled with hot water. The broth should stand for two hours, wrapped in thick cloth. Broth strain and drink inside 3-4 times a day. The same infusion, flush the eye.
To reduce the pressure. It is necessary to take 3 tablespoons of crushed dried leaves of walnut, wild rose 2 teaspoons flowers, 1 teaspoon of the root and rose hips a little piece of leaf aloe. All ingredients pour 500 ml. of boiling water and let stand for an hour. The solution must drain and drink one tablespoon per day before meals.
To compress on the eyes. A half cup of chopped nettles mixed with pulverized flowers, lily of the valley. In this recipe, use only fresh plants, as they contribute to a speedy recovery. Collection must be carefully ground and add to it 1 tablespoon of water. The mixture was infused for 10 hours. Use as a compress on the eyes.
For slowing down the development of glaucoma. 1 tablespoon ginger, licorice, flowers motherwort, buckwheat, and lemon balm to alter and filled with boiling water. Infused tax 1 hour. Ingest at half cup 2 times a day. The course of treatment lasts for one month, then you need to take a break for a while and repeat the treatment again.
Glaucoma treatment extremely difficult and painstaking process.
The total course of treatment comprises the maintenance of normal intraocular pressure. This state is maintained by using diuretics, cardiovascular drugs, special eye drops. The course of treatment drugs must first be discussed with your doctor.
Note that the advanced stage of the disease will inevitably lead to blindness. The sooner people seek proper help, the more successful will take the entire course of treatment. Status glaucoma relies entirely on your lifestyle and on compliance with the doctor's recommendations of your data.
First, patients must avoid glaucoma nervous disorders, stress and excessive exercise.
It is advisable and compliance with a balanced diet, in which plant components will be included. Eating fried and fatty foods should be deleted.
To date, there is no true techniques and methods that can accurately prevent the development of this disease. But hardly suspected at the first symptoms of glaucoma, is urgently needed, not seconds without delay to consult a specialist.
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Glaucoma
Glaucoma - a disease caused by high intraocular pressure without treatment leading to the irreversible destruction of the optic nerve. And the death of the optic nerve is an irrevocable loss of sight. However, early detection and treatment can slow down or even stop the progression of the disease.
What causes glaucoma?
The eye is constantly produced by the liquid substance, called aqueous humor. Aqueous humor is secreted by the ciliary body in the back of the camera - a small space between the lens and the iris. Then it goes through the hole of the pupil into the anterior chamber - the space between the cornea and the iris - and fills it. In a corner of the front of the camera, where to converge the cornea and the iris, it is a complex drainage system of the eye through which aqueous humor exits the eye and goes into the bloodstream. It is the balance between the production and outflow of aqueous humor determines the intraocular pressure (IOP). In most people, the IOP is 16-25 mm Hg. Although some eyes can withstand higher pressures. Therefore, the norm is always individual: what is high for one person may be normal for another.
The main forms of glaucoma
Open-angle glaucoma
Psevdoeksfoliatsii
The tips of the arrows shown in the deposition of a whitish substance called psevdoeksfoliatsiyami on the anterior capsule of the lens. The origin of the substance is poorly understood, but it is well-known subspecies okrytougolnoy glaucoma associated with the outflow tract of intraocular fluid deposition unit psevdoeksfoliatsy in the corner of the front chamber of the eye.
This is the most common form of glaucoma is also known as 'chronic open' or 'primary open'. In this form of glaucoma, although the front section of the eye looks normal aqueous humor does not get proper drainage accumulates in the eye, and, as a consequence, increased intraocular pressure. Without treatment, it leads to a gradual loss of vision but bezvozratnoy. Usually, the doctor prescribes eye drops to lower intraocular pressure, but often not enough for the required pressure drop. Therefore it is necessary to perform the operation Antiglaucoma - laser or knife.
Angle-closure glaucoma:
This form occurs in 10% of patients with glaucoma. Angle-closure glaucoma is characterized by acute attacks of closing the anterior chamber angle. This happens due to the pathology of the anterior eyeball. For the most part, this pathology manifests shallow anterior chamber, ie, a decrease in the space between the cornea and iris that narrows the lumen of the outflow tract of the aqueous humor from the eye. If the outflow is completely blocked, the IOP rises to high numbers.
While patients with open-angle glaucoma often have no symptoms, patients with narrow-angle glaucoma, in contrast, during a seizure experienced severe pain in the eye, accompanied by a headache in the homonymous half of the head, nausea, vomiting, iridescent circles before the eye, its redness. An acute attack of glaucoma - it is urgent conditions requiring immediate start adequate treatment. Otherwise, in a few hours, the optic nerve can be completely lost, and people lose vision in that eye for life.
Secondary glaucoma:
When any eye disease leads to increased IOP, talk about secondary glaucoma. Its causes can be inflammation, trauma, surgery, diabetes, cancer, and certain medications. In this form of glaucoma treatment is required as a fundamental problem and glaucoma.
Congenital glaucoma
This rare type of glaucoma occurs in children and in most cases requires surgical treatment.
The signs (symptoms)
Glaucoma - an insidious disease because it rarely causes complaints. Detection and prevention are often only possible through regular examinations by an ophthalmologist. But such forms of glaucoma, as the closure and congenital cause the appearance of symptoms.
An acute attack of angle-closure glaucoma
Extremely severe pain in the eye
The sharp deterioration of vision
A headache (often half a headache from the patient's eye)
Nausea and vomiting
Lit and photophobia
Congenital glaucoma
lacrimation
Photophobia
Increasing the size of the cornea and the whole eye
Diagnostics
Due to the fact that glaucoma in most cases does not manifest itself, a person older than 40 years should once a year show an ophthalmologist with a mandatory measurement of intraocular pressure. Those who have a doctor suspects glaucoma, may need further investigation.
Screening for glaucoma includes several standard components. In addition to measuring the intraocular pressure, determine the rate of formation of aqueous humor in the eye and the rate of outflow of intraocular fluid (tomography). The doctor also assesses the condition of the optic nerve (ophthalmoscopy), check the field of view and explores the front structures of the eye with a special contact lens (Gonioscopy).
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