How can early detection of glaucoma?

Glaucoma is a common eye disease in older persons. But actually, Glaucoma is not a single disease, but the nature and include different types, and so many cases of a group of ophthalmopathy. It showed elevation of intraocular pressure, resulting in ocular tissue particularly optic nerve damage can be manifested as intraocular pressure is not high, but the eyes to reduce blood flow caused damage to the optic nerve, the ultimate impact caused blindness and visual function. Optic nerve damage due to the event is irreversible, even after treatment, impaired visual function also can not be resumed, glaucoma is a serious blinding eye disease.
Glaucoma is a common eye disease that can occur at any age, the incidence of risk increased with increasing age. In over 40 years of age crowd, the average prevalence rate of 1% to 2%. Glaucoma is life and progress STD> diseases, it will not self-limiting, not to stay, if, it will continue until the development of the blind.
Different types of glaucoma have different clinical manifestations. Acute angle-closure glaucoma acute attack, as a sharp increase intraocular pressure, strong symptoms and unbearable suffering to many patients with timely medical treatment, while others are hidden, and glaucoma way slow progress early in the course of disease is neither eyes Hung nor pain, there is no obvious change in vision, the crowd, many people are ignorant of their glaucoma. A small number of people with a minor bulging eyes, visual fatigue, occasionally, as a rainbow, the rest after the turn for the better, no significant decline in visual acuity. Therefore, delays are often overlooked medical treatment. When the development of advanced disease, patients are gradually or narrow vision, work and life to be affected when checked at the hospital, then glaucoma optic nerve damage has been very serious. These unknowingly glaucoma prevalence of acute glaucoma than the more dangerous, it must be vigilant.
The blinding glaucoma is not curable and, therefore, is the key to the treatment of glaucoma early treatment, and is the prerequisite for the early detection and diagnosis. Only in early glaucoma, optic nerve damage is not heavy or light under the premise of the treatment can be very effective. Therefore, in the following circumstances, the approach should be excluded hospitals do glaucoma check for early detection of glaucoma.
1. Body census is suspected to have glaucoma. 40-year-old, the importance of regular annual check IOP, fundus.
2. Who have family history of glaucoma. Every family member should be seriously checked and, if necessary, to do long-term periodic observation.
3. A diagnosis of glaucoma, and the other eye examination as early as possible.
4. Suffering from glaucoma and related systemic STD> diseases, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, low blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, and so on.
5. Suffering from glaucoma and other eye-related, such as high myopia, hyperopia and highly fundus bleeding.
6. Appeared glaucoma common symptoms: bulging eyes, headache, as Hong, declining eyesight.
These risk factors are not necessarily those of glaucoma, but initial results without signs of glaucoma, does not guarantee that no future glaucoma, it should be in accordance with the recommendations of ophthalmologists regular follow-up. For glaucoma, in a clear diagnosis ago, would rather more carefully, we can not effect, so as to avoid delays in diagnosis and treatment.
Once glaucoma was diagnosed, it should be treated immediately. Treatment aims to reduce intraocular pressure to prevent further damage to the optic nerve, the protection of visual function. Treatment measures include drug therapy, laser treatment and surgery. For different types, different stages of the pathogenesis of glaucoma, treatment programs will vary, doctors will be put under specific circumstances with specific treatment programs.
Glaucoma patients to the hospital regularly review is very important. Through its review, the ophthalmologist on the condition and treatment of patients with a follow-up of the circumstances of understanding to judge whether the disease progress and the extent of progress to seize the opportunity to adjust to treatment programs and supplementary. In short, only doctors and patients appropriate treatment regularly with the re-integration of glaucoma can be controlled and the best place under the supervision of patients have hope, be the best therapeutic effect.