World Glaucoma Day is celebrated annually on 6 March.
In order to improve the awareness rate of glaucoma, the World Glaucoma Association and the World Association of Glaucoma Patients jointly initiated in 2008 to designate "World Glaucoma Day" on March 6 every year.
As the first killer of human blindness, glaucoma is now not only an "exclusive disease" of the elderly, but also the incidence of adolescent glaucoma in recent years.
Glaucoma, what exactly is the disease?
Glaucoma refers to an eye disease caused by increased pressure in the eye.
There are many types of glaucoma, mainly including primary open-angle glaucoma, primary angle-closure glaucoma, and children's glaucoma.
The causes of glaucoma vary, and in general, they are very much related to excessive use of the eyes, heredity, or congenital dysplasia, and some underlying diseases.
When glaucoma attacks, many patients will have headaches, in addition to some other obvious symptoms.
What are the symptoms of glaucoma?
1. Primary open-angle glaucoma
The types of glaucoma vary and the symptoms present vary.
The most common primary open-angle glaucoma is elevated intraocular pressure in the early stages. As the disease progresses, patients begin to experience swelling and blurred vision in the eye area, accompanied by headaches.
If these symptoms are not treated, the patient's binocular vision will shrink, but the central vision is very good. This visual phenomenon is called tubular vision, and night blindness can also occur.
2. Primary angle-closure glaucoma
When present with primary angle-closure glaucoma, patients experience headache, nausea, and mild eye distension.
When you look at things during the day, there is a feeling of foggy, and when you look at the lights at night, a colored aura appears.
If left untreated at this time, the patient may experience worsening headaches and severe eye pain, vomiting, nausea, and rapid loss of vision. In severe cases, the patient's vision may be left with only the sense of light.
3. Children's sexual glaucoma
Childhood glaucoma, also known as developmental glaucoma, usually occurs in infants and young children aged 2 to 3 years.
When children have glaucoma, the child's eyeballs often increase due to increased intraocular pressure. Children may experience eyelid spasms, photophobia, and tearing in the eyes.
The appearance of these symptoms causes children to often hide in the light shelter, or bury their heads in the light shelter to achieve the purpose of reducing pain and stimulation.
Effectively control glaucoma and stay away from a poor lifestyle.
1. Avoid falling asleep on your stomach
Many office workers like to sleep on their stomachs on the table for a while, but this way of sleeping is very harmful to the eyes. Sleeping on a table can cause more blood in the eyes and increase intraocular pressure, which increases the chance of glaucoma.
2. Avoid drinking too much water
Especially glaucoma patients, should pay more attention to the amount of water, glaucoma patients will appear aqueous humor metabolism function is not perfect, so every time you drink water must pay attention to the amount, and to drink slowly, to prevent intraocular pressure fluctuations.
3. Avoid living in a gray and dark environment for a long time
Usually pay attention to the brightness in the house, and do not turn off the lights to watch TV, turn off the lights to watch TV and mobile phones are easy to cause dilated pupils, so it is easy to induce glaucoma.
4. Active exercise
Reasonable exercise is conducive to reducing intraocular pressure, and you should usually do more aerobic exercise, especially for glaucoma patients, and sports can not be less.
When the eyes feel uncomfortable, be sure to check as soon as possible and beware of the appearance of glaucoma.
Especially family glaucoma patients should be more vigilant, do not be careless, beware of harm to the eyes, the visual damage caused by glaucoma is irreversible, so it is necessary to find out early, especially when there is a headache and eye swelling, it should be checked as soon as possible.
At the same time, glaucoma is a lifelong disease, and only a small number of patients with angle-closure glaucoma can effectively alleviate the disease after laser treatment in the pre-clinical period or early stage.
Therefore, most patients also need regular review, lifelong maintenance, and need to control intraocular pressure in daily life to prevent abnormal elevation.