I’ve read at the newspaper about disease in the optic nerve. The disease called Glaucoma and will damage the vision. It is one of main reason of blindness that affects millions of people. Everybody can get Glaucoma even you have healthy eye before but there are main factors to get this disease :-

1. Age. Older people have high risk to get glaucoma.
2. High blood pressure also can cause glaucoma.
3. Family history
4. Diabetes
5. Steroid treatment
6. Eye injury.

Glaucoma will come without any big symptoms. Many patients don’t know how they get glaucoma. You need to check your eyes if there’s any family history get this disease. Most of patients have different eye structure and need to be identifying before the attack.
Without any serious treatment, the visual optic will be destroying. The eye vision will be narrowing and risk to get blind is high.

Glaucoma treatment

Glaucoma treatments include medicines, conventional surgery or laser trabeculoplasty.
1. The most of treatments need to use eye drop that will reduce intraocular stress. The eyedrop medication include carteolol (Ocupress),timolol (Timoptic), levobunolol (Betagan) and metipranolol (Optipranolol).
2. Laser treatment also can help to prevent from acute attack in the eyes. The side effects for this method is inflammation.

More Info :-
National EyeInstitute
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Do you know about Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD)?The disease will cause a blurring and darkening of central vision. It effect to older adults that loss of the vision in their macula because the weakness of their retina. Major people that get this disease is 50 years old and they will have problem to read or recognize faces.
AMD will effect on the macula, that allows us to see fine details.
There are some research at University of California (UCLA) get some result that smoking is second major factor risk for AMD after age factor. From their study shows that the smokers get 11 % risk to get AMD than the non smoker. The theory shows that smoking reduce levels of antioxidants in the blood, changing the blood flow to the eyes and reducing the amount of pigmentation in the retina.
It conclude that by stopping the bad habit will decreased the risk to get AMD.Let’s stop smoking now before it’s too late.

Sample of ADM effect

Source: UCLA.

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Do you know about cataract? Cataract is vision problems that make your eyesight shows cloudy spot and becomes blurry. This problem occurs mostly because of aging and effect in either or both eyes. There is a person who is risk to get cataract such as person that get diabetes, smokers or get exposure too much on light.Cataract can be detected in early stage. It started out with small blurry and you will found that your vision look cloudy. A lamp will be seen as too bright or glaring and you notice that the colors may not appear as bright as before.
Other’s than aging effect, cataract cause because of this problem:-

1. Surgery for other eye problems can cause cataract especially glaucoma. . The glaucoma happen when there are fluid in your eyes.
2. Eye injury can cause cataract but it takes time to develop.
3. Radiation can develop the cataract.

Prevent Cataract

1. Make a surgery to fix the vision problem. This process is risk so ensure that the surgeon is qualified.
2. Stress is main cause of cataracts. You must relax your eyes to ensure it take a rest especially when your work involved computer.
3. Get a good diet is important to make your eyes healthy. Eat more meals that high in Vitamin A-E. Take more fruits and avoid meal high in cholesterol.
4. Find a time to exercise especially in the morning.
5. Avoid bad habit such as smoking and drinking. Change your lifestyle and begin with the good.
6. Check your eyes to your eyes expertise at least 2 times per year. They can give you suggestion and detect if you get cataract in early phase.

Early treatment can help your eyes from cataract effect. Cataract is danger because you can get risk of blindness.

Reference :
A book about eyes problem , 2003, Almin Publisher
National Eye Institute Website
Dr. Chong Fan, Eye Expertise

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