Glaucoma

Glaucoma is an eye disorder that causes damage to the optic nerve, this nerve plays a very important part in the way we carry images from the retina to our brain, so we have vision. Glaucoma has a nickname “the sneak thief of sight,” because this disease gradually worsens over a period of time and the person cannot tell their vision is going until it is too far advanced. As a result, it is the second leading cause of blindness in the world, especially in older generations. This disorder is typically caused by an elevation of eye pressure, which damages the nerve fibers of the optic nerve. As this progresses a number of nerve fibers are damaged, blind spots occur, and glaucoma becomes permanent. In other cases poor blood circulation in the optic nerves can result to glaucoma. There are procedures to follow when in danger for glaucoma, this can happen to anyone, when in doubt people should go to their ophthalmologist and get treated for glaucoma right away in varies ways depending on the type of glaucoma.

There are three different types of glaucoma, the most common glaucoma is the open angle, or chronic glaucoma. The open drainage angle of the eye can become blocked leading to an increase of eye pressure. The optic nerve damage and vision loss occurs slowly and painlessly making this disease the worse to handle because the person has no idea they have open angle glaucoma until the optic nerve is to badly damage for any treatment. The second type of glaucoma is the angle closed, which happens when drainage angle of the eye becomes narrow and completely blocked. When the eye suddenly becomes blocked completely, the pressure builds up known as acute angle-closure. When drainage angle of eye becomes completely blocked and pressure eleva...

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...he drainage area for the eye fluid to exit the eye which will decreases the eye pressure, and prevent complication or progression of optic nerve damage.

Ultimate, glaucoma can be a very serious and a chronic disorder that needs to be taken care of right away as soon as something is unusual about the a person’s vision because once vision loss there’s no way to regain eye sight. The best way to do this is to get the eyes checked every so often before something goes wrong. Without eye sight, life itself will be unrealistic and people will struggle trying to explore new opportunities. Over 2.2 million Americans have glaucoma and only half of those know it. In the United States itself, more than 120,000 people are blind from glaucoma. This eye disorder is nothing to sit around and wait for the condition to improve on it’s on because in the end a person will end up blind.