World Glaucoma Day: "Vision" Taken Away? These 5 types of people are best wary of the arrival of glaucoma
World Glaucoma Day is celebrated annually on 6 March.
Glaucoma, for many young people, may be relatively unfamiliar.
As a common disease among middle-aged and elderly people, glaucoma is also the world's first irreversible blinding eye disease, and about 2% of people over the age of 40 on the mainland have glaucoma.
Glaucoma, mainly related to the intraocular pressure is too high, when the intraocular pressure is too high, beyond the limit that the internal tissues of the eyeball can withstand, it will cause nerve damage, resulting in decreased vision and smaller visual field.
Glaucoma is not a disease exclusive to the elderly
According to the data, there are currently more than 60 million patients with glaucoma worldwide, of which nearly 10% will be blind, while the prevalence of mainland glaucoma is 0.68%.
Many people think that the elderly are prone to glaucoma, which is an exclusive disease of the elderly, but it is not.
Clinical data in recent years show that many young people will also suffer from this disease, especially young people in the computer family, who are more likely to be favored by glaucoma.
Who is more likely to suffer from the "favor" of glaucoma?
First, people with high myopia
People with myopia above 600 degrees are prone to glaucoma, and the high degree of myopia will lead to an extension of the eye axis, weakening the separation protection effect, so it is easier to induce glaucoma.
When the degree of myopia exceeds 600 degrees, screening for glaucoma is very necessary, and only by detecting it as early as possible can we do a good job of improvement.
Second, people with cardiovascular system diseases
People with cardiovascular system diseases will have an increase or decrease in blood pressure, whether it is an increase or decrease in blood pressure, which will affect intraocular pressure, resulting in atrophy of the optic nerve and impaired optic nerve function, resulting in glaucoma.
Third, diabetic people
Diabetic patients are prone to elevated blood sugar, in the case of blood glucose is difficult to control will cause retinopathy, thereby inducing vascular glaucoma, the patient's vision will gradually decline, and often feel eye pain, severe cases will also appear intraocular bleeding, so it is necessary to pay attention to it as soon as possible.
Fourth, people with glaucoma in their families
Glaucoma is hereditary and has a family genetic history.
If there is a person in the family with glaucoma or more people, the genetic probability of the next generation is very high, if there is a person with glaucoma in the family, glaucoma screening should be actively carried out, the disease should be identified as soon as possible, and effective intervention and treatment should be effective.
Fifth, people over 40 years old
With the increase of age, the body function gradually declines, people over 40 years old are prone to eye lenses, hardening and swelling phenomenon caused by closed angle glaucoma, women have a higher chance of appearance than men.
Therefore, people over the age of 40 should go to the eye hospital regularly for examination and detect the disease as soon as possible.
Glaucoma, can it be cured?
In fact, most of the glaucoma can not be cured, but as long as the appropriate treatment, is able to effectively control the disease, prevent or slow down the further damage to vision, about 20% of glaucoma patients, 3-5 years after surgery may recur.
There are many ways to treat glaucoma, because most of the onset of glaucoma is related to increased aqueous humor in the eye and poor elimination.
Therefore, in the clinic, drugs, surgery and other methods are mainly used to reduce the entry of intraocular aqueous humor into the eyeball and dredge the aqueous humor discharge channel.
At the same time, because once the optic nerve is damaged, it will be difficult to repair or regenerate, so the key to glaucoma treatment also needs "early detection, early treatment", early treatment can preserve as much as possible to preserve more optic nerves.
It is always found that the eyes are always uncomfortable and need to seek medical attention in time
Most of the early symptoms of glaucoma are blurred vision, hard eyeballs, rainbow circles when looking at lights, etc., and some people will also have eye photophobia, eye acidity, etc., and some people have no discomfort symptoms.
Therefore, if there are symptoms such as eye discomfort, it is necessary to seek medical treatment in time and check through intraocular pressure examination, optic nerve examination, anterior chamber angle examination, visual field examination and other items.