Glaucoma Cause, Glaucoma Symptoms, Glaucoma Treatment

Glaucoma Cause

GLACOMA is CAUSED by increased fluid pressure in your eye.

To keep their shape, your eyes are filled with a clear fluid like an egg. But to prevent stagnation and infection this eye fluid is changed regularly. It is made and secreted deep in your eye, washes over your lenses and then flows out of the eye through channels by the iris. Normally this production and removal system are balanced.

In Glaucoma this balance is lost. It is associated with age degeneration of the outlet channels preventing fluid from escaping. This increases the pressure in the eyeball making it hard and painful.

The SYMPTOMS of GLAUCOMA are due to the increased pressure in the eye making it hard like a cue ball.

The symptoms of glaucoma are:

• Very painful red eyeball.

• Blurred vision.

• Haloes around lights at night.

• Tunnel vision.

Glaucoma most often tends to cause painless loss of vision that creeps up on you. The vision loss is similar to your blind spot getting much bigger than it should be. The Spaeth test is a simple way to check yourself for loss of vision using your TV. Turn it on to an empty 'snow' channel and sit a foot or two away. Now close one eye and with the open one see if you can see all of the television. Now repeat on the other side. If you found part of the TV dissappeared in either eye you need to 'see' your eye doctor.

TREATMENT of GLAUCOMA:

To treat glaucoma, the pressure in the affected eye must be reduced. This is done through two methods using eye drops. One is to use chemical drops that force your pupil to narrow freeing up space around the exit channels making it easier for eye fluid to escape. And the other is to use drops that are absorbed and lower production of eye fluid.

If these treatment methods fail, then surgery is necessary. Artificial drainage is made by cutting a window at 12 o'clock through the iris. This treatment allows free flow of eye fluid and it's escape.

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