Glaucoma Treatment
What is Glaucoma?
Types of Glaucoma
Closed-angle glaucoma is a much more worrisome disease which can lead to severe pain and sudden loss of vision. It usually requires emergent treatment with a special type of laser. Risk factors for closed-angle glaucoma include female gender, increasing age, Inuit or East Asian ethnicity, farsightedness, and genetic factors including family history.
Symptoms of open-angle glaucoma:
- Patchy blind spots in your side or central vision.
- Tunnel vision in advanced stages
- Severe headache
- Pain in the eye
- Vomiting and nausea
- Blurry vision
- Halos around light
- Red eyes
It is critical to seek medical help if you are experiencing symptoms, as undiagnosed and untreated glaucoma can cause severe and permanent vision loss.
Oral medications may also be used if eye drops do not significantly lower eye pressure. The common drug prescribed to help further decrease eye pressure is a carbonic anhydrase inhibitor.
Insufficient tear production causes dry eyes; several factors can cause your eyes to produce less tears than they should. Some of these factors include:
- Medications such as antidepressants, antihistamines, and decongestants.
- Increasing age
- Laser eye surgery
- Diabetes
- Lupus
- Vitamin A deficiency
- Time looking at a computer screen
- Smoking, or exposure to secondhand smoke
- Indoor environments with too much air circulation
Dry eyes irritate anyone, but you don’t have to be miserable. A professional eye doctor can help you determine what inhibits your tear production and decide on a solution.
If you’re experiencing dry eyes, then you know how troublesome this condition can be. But, you don’t have to suffer! There are many effective home remedies that can help with dry eyes. These include:
- Using soap on your eyelids. Put a mild cleanser or soap on your fingertips or washcloth, and massage your eyelids. This trick works wonders!
- Put a warm washcloth over your eyes. Simply dampen a washcloth with warm water, then hold the cloth on your eyelids for at least five minutes, or more. You can even softly massage your eyelids with the washcloth.
Several different procedures can effectively treat glaucoma. Before deciding on surgery, you should consider specialized glaucoma eye drops. These can help decrease pressure in your eyes and eye fluid production. Glaucoma eye drops come in many different forms, including beta-blockers, prostaglandins, and more. If eye drops do not improve your condition, you should certainly consider surgery; this works wonders for many patients. Some specialists also use a variety of therapy techniques to treat glaucomas. These include both laser or filtering therapy and drainage tubes.
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Other solutions available at our glaucoma treatment center include the iStent implant. It is a novel microsurgical implant, which lowers intraocular pressure and helps to manage mild to moderate open-angle glaucoma. The iStent implant is inserted during cataract surgery. By increasing the eye’s ability to drain fluid, this technology is designed to reduce the pressure in your eye. Click here to watch a video animation about the iStent.