Muscular Degeneration
What are the two types of macular degeneration?
Dry and Wet
What are the symptoms?
Cloudy or blurred vision
Faded colors
Can’t see well at night
Lights seem too bright
See halos around lights
See double
Frequent change of eye prescription for glasses or contacts
What are the types?
- Open angle
- Closed angle
What does Diabetic Retinopathy cause?
Causes blindness and vision loss in people with diabetes, affects the blood vessels in the retina
What is the difference of wet and dry degeneration?
Wet- 10-15% of cases are considered wet/exudative
Dry-majority are considered dry/atrophic
what are the risk factors?
Have certain health problems
Smoke
Too much consumption of alcohol
There’s a family history of it
Eye injury, eye surgery, or radiation treatment on your upper body can increase risks
Lot of time in the sun
Take steroids for medicinal use
What are the symptoms?
Starts off when no symptoms which is why people with it don’t know they have it
Will slowly start to lose peripheral vision, central vision, and eventually will be blind
What are the symptoms?
Early stages usually don’t show symptoms although some people may notice a change in their vision
In the later stages blood vessels will start to bleed and you will start to see dark floating spots. It is important to get treated right away if this happens, because scars can form and the blood vessels can start bleeding again and may potentially get worse.
What is the cause of macular degeneration?
no specific cause, but can be hereditary or environmental
Why do they happen majority of the time?
age and the lens getting cloudier with age
What are the Risks?
Over the age of 60
African American and over the age of 40
Have history of glaucoma in your family
What are the risks?
Anyone with diabetes is at risk
Increases the longer you have diabetes
Pregnant women who have diabetes are at a higher risk
What are the risk factors?
Age. genetics, race, smoking, diet
Wear sun glasses or eye protection when out in the sun
Protect eyes from injuries such eye pokes
Don’t smoke or quit smoking
Healthy diet
Cataracts can be trea
What are the treatments?
medicine, laser treatment, surgery
What are the causes?
- high sugar levels
Starts when sugar in your blood goes to the tiny blood vessels that go to your retina
These blood vessels then begin to get blocked, leak fluid, or even bleed leading to your body making new ones that won’t work as well
EXPLAIN the stages of Macular degernation
Sub-clinical - happens to most people later in life, this is before any physical or visible changes to the macula, lose the ability so adapt to dark surroundings
Early - most do not experience vision loss at this stage, regular eye exams are important at this stage especially if there is more of a risk factor, diagnosed by presence of medium-sized drusen
Intermediate - some vision loss but not much at this stage, comprehensive eye exams are needed with specific tests to look for larger drusen in the retinas
Late - vision loss is noticeable due to “wet” or “dry” degeneration
How can they be treated?
making eye healthy choices in younger years, new glasses or contacts can help, or surgery if it begins to interfere with everyday activities
what is the difference in the two types of Glaucoma?
Open-angle - more common type of glaucoma, happens naturally where the eye doesn’t drain fluid as well causing damage to the optic nerve
Closed angle - happens when the iris is close to the drainage angle in the eye and the drainage angle eventually gets fully blocked off
what are the treatments?