Diabetes or high level of sugar in the blood system can cause a lot of problem to your body system and which your eyes are not spared. The diabetic condition that presents in the body will gradually damage the eyes pace by pace which including lens, retina, optic nerve, vitreous and etc. The scariest part about this is most patients would not notice any of symptoms until it is too late. Most damages might have happened long before the patient detects any change or deterioration in the vision. That’s why diabetic eye damage is often refer to as ‘silent eye disease’ (apart from glaucoma).
Some of the vision problem that caused by diabetes include frequent vision fluctuations, reduced vision due to the damage of optic nerve, impermanent paralysis of eye muscles, diabetic retinopathy and double vision. Moreover, people with diabetes are more prone to developing eye cataract even at a very young age. Cataract is an eye disorder that develops due to natural aging process but for a diabetic patient it becomes a symptom of the diabetes itself.
Glaucoma has been identified as the main cause of blindness worldwide after cataract. Glaucoma, unlike any other eye disorders, is actually a group of eye diseases that work together and silently. A person that has glaucoma will not aware or notice about it until a certain stage, when the symptoms start to show up. Glaucoma is known to be caused by a fluid that happens to build up inside the eyes, which causes the increase of intraocular pressure or ‘IOP’. When this happens, the optic nerves will get damaged and which then leading to vision loss.
There are two main types of glaucoma (which quite common to happen); the primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) and angle closure glaucoma. The difference of these two is their onset and these are marked by the increase of intraocular pressure. The former type is much more chronic compares to the latter one.
Eye cataracts is a very common eye disorder that affects elderly people. Since this subject is heavily discussed on this web site, hence there’s no need to talk about it here. Let’s us look at another two common eye disorders that happen quite normally.
The first one is retinal detachment and this eye disorder normally cause by a blow to the head, fluid accumulation in the sub-retinal space and due to the aging process. This is a pain free condition and normally the patient won’t even know about it until he or she has a checkup with the doctor. Some of the common symptoms that show when this happens are blurred vision, double vision, flashes of light, visual floaters and a veil-like loss of vision. The symptoms are progressive and they get worsen as time pass. The best treatment for retinal detachment is none other than going through an eye surgery. Read this for recovery from detached retina surgery.
