 Glauloma-Pressure |
The World Glaucoma Day fell on March 12. Glaucoma is a disease that cause progressive damage of the optic nerve at the point where it leaves the eye to carry visual information to the brain.
If left untreated, most types of glaucoma progress (without neither warning or obvious symptoms to the patient) towards gradually worsening visual damage and may lead to blindness. Once incurred, visual damage is mostly irreversible and this has lead to glaucoma being described as the `silent blinding disease’ or the `sneak thief of sight’.
There is no cure for glaucoma as yet and vision loss is irreversible. However medication or surgery (traditional or laser) can halt or slow down any further vision loss. Therefore early detection is essential to limiting visual impairment and preventing the progression towards severe visual handicap or blindness.
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Your doctor can detect glaucoma in its early stages and advice you on the best course of action.
Therefore when you go for routine examination for spectacles, better get your eye pressure checked.
Due to the silent progression of the disease at least in its early stages up to 50 percent of affected persons in the developed countries are not even aware of having glaucoma.
This number may rise to 90 percent in underdeveloped parts of the world.
Intraocular pressure is considered as a risk factor for glaucoma, together with other factors such as racial ancestry, family history, high myopia and age.
