Guide to Eye Diseases

Diabetic retinopathy signs and treatments: The American Academy of Ophthalmology has ever claimed that diabetic people are 25 times more likely to lose vision than normal individuals. However, there are less serious eye diseases that are also caused by diabetes, such as diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma. It is widely known that diabetic patients can not use and store sugar in a normal way, resulting in high blood sugar.
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Chronic glaucoma risks: In contrast to acute glaucoma, chronic glaucoma (or primary open-angle glaucoma) has no obvious symptoms during its development process. This form of glaucoma gradually reduces the patient’s peripheral vision and permanent damage has become a reality once you realize it. It sounds scary and chronic is actually called “the silent thief of sight”.
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Causes for eye twitching: Eye twitching bothers many people and even drives them crazy. Actually, it is pretty common and mostly happens to the lower eyelid. Eyelid tics can last for weeks and even months but most of them are benign and harmless.
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Causes and treatments for optic neuritis: Optic neuropathy refers to optic nerve abnormalities or damage caused by blocked blood flow or toxic exposure. Another less serious eye condition is optic neuritis, which is inflammation of the optic nerve.
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An overview of Sjogren’s syndrome: The Sjogren’s Syndrome Foundation points out that 90% out of 4 million patients who have the disease are women, since older women beyond menopause are susceptible to it. Sjogren’s syndrome affects moist and lubricated eyes and mouth by damaging related glands, resulting in dry eyes.
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Acute and chronic forms of glaucoma: Most types of glaucoma are associated with narrow filtration angle, which hinders the outflow of eye fluids so that high IOP is caused. High IOP spikes and damages the optic nerve, which is responsible for images transmission from the eye to the brain. Optic nerve damage in turn causes vision loss.
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A variety of glaucoma surgeries: Glaucoma with high IOP probably brings high risk of vision loss, so that early detection and treatments including glaucoma surgery are important. Currently, both laser and non-laser glaucoma surgeries aim at either decreasing the production of internal eye fluids or increasing the outflow of them. These surgeries can remove the high IOP and stabilize normal IOP, thus optic nerve is also under protection.
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A guide to various eye injuries: Eye is one of the most important organs for every individual so that protecting your eyes from injuries is quite necessary. There are some ways to offer eye protection such as safety goggles or glasses. However, eye injuries still happen quite often. This article is a guide to common eye injuries.
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A comparison between pinguecula and pterygium: Both pinguecula and pterygium occur on the surface of the sclera, so that many people are confused. In fact, these two eye problems are different in causes, symptoms and treatments.
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A brief introduction of subconjunctival hemorrhage: A subconjunctival hemorrhage has conspicuous appearance. Its most common symptom is red eye. Eye redness is directly caused by blood vessels break beneath the tissue covering the conjunctiva, which also explains the name of subconjunctival hemorrhage.
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