What are the misunderstandings about glaucoma

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For glaucoma disease, there are still many people have some misunderstanding, also do not know how to prevent and treat glaucoma disease, such a disease caused great trouble to you, we need to pay attention to it, do early detection and early treatment, this is the key to disease rehabilitation, let's focus on the misunderstanding of glaucoma people?

What are the misunderstandings about glaucoma

Myth 1: glaucoma is hereditary. Glaucoma has a genetic predisposition, but it does not mean that people without a family history of glaucoma will not get glaucoma. Glaucoma can occur from children to the elderly. People over 40 years old, hyperopia, high myopia, diabetes, autoimmune diseases, and family history of glaucoma are susceptible to glaucoma. It is suggested that ophthalmic examination should be carried out every 1-2 years for early detection.

Mistake 2: if you get glaucoma, you will be blind sooner or later. In the past, due to the lack of comprehensive understanding and treatment of glaucoma, some glaucoma patients eventually lost their sight. Nowadays, clinicians can not only take a variety of methods to treat glaucoma, such as drugs (anti glaucoma eye drops), laser (non-invasive selective laser) and surgery, but also prevent the occurrence of glaucoma by timely intervention (such as pupil narrowing, peripheral iridectomy or incision) in the preclinical stage of some glaucoma (such as angle closure glaucoma). On the current level of medical treatment, in addition to the blindness of glaucoma patients can not be restored, the general glaucoma is not blind!

Mistake 3: glaucoma patients should drink less water. This is a completely wrong view. Glaucoma is mainly caused by elevated intraocular pressure, and intraocular pressure is closely related to aqueous humor (a kind of flowing liquid in the eye). Since aqueous humor is "water", drinking less or no water can control intraocular pressure.

matters needing attention

About people's misunderstanding of glaucoma, I want to tell you here. I hope we can understand these misunderstanding of glaucoma, and we can treat it correctly in our later life. In addition to positive treatment, it is also very important to pay attention to the nursing of relevant students.