What happens if you have glaucoma?
What happens if you have glaucoma?
The increased pressure in your eye, called intraocular pressure, can damage your optic nerve, which sends images to your brain. If the damage worsens, glaucoma can cause permanent vision loss or even total blindness within a few years. Most people with glaucoma have no early symptoms or pain.
What age do you usually get glaucoma?
Glaucoma is the second-leading cause of blindness in the U.S. It most often occurs in people over age 40, although an infant (congenital) form of glaucoma exists.
Can you feel if your eye pressure is high?
Most people with ocular hypertension do not experience any symptoms. For this reason, regular eye examinations with an eye doctor are very important to rule out any damage to the optic nerve from the high pressure.
How to stop glaucoma from getting worse?
- Eye pressure can be lowered with medications, laser procedures and surgeries. Most people with glaucoma and those at high risk of developing glaucoma will use medications at some point to lower eye pressure in order to prevent the disease from getting worse.
Can glaucoma be cured by operation or surgery?
- It's important to note that glaucoma cannot be cured , so surgery is often needed. Surgery results are long-lasting, but not permanent. New technology and innovation in medicine have also lowered glaucoma surgery risks. There are different surgery options used to help control glaucoma.
How is glaucoma diagnosed and treated?
- Once the glaucoma diagnosis is made either by optic nerve examination or visual field testing, treatment is initiated. Today the only treatments available are those which lower the intraocular pressure. Lowering eye pressure can be accomplished using medicines, laser, or surgery. Treatment needs to be carried out for life.
What is the best medicine for glaucoma?
- Latanoprost. Latanoprost is also available with other drugs as combined which is more effective for glaucoma. ...
- Unoprostone. Unoprostone,is the top FDA approved topical prostaglandin analog after latanoprost,which is used widely in Japan.
- Xalatan. Xalatan (Brand name for Latanoprost) most widely sold drugs in western countries. ...
