How should glaucoma be treated

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Glaucoma is a kind of eye disease with intermittent or continuous increase of intraocular pressure. Elevated intraocular pressure may have different symptoms due to different causes. Sustained high intraocular pressure can damage the tissues and visual function of all parts of the eyeball, resulting in decreased vision and reduced visual field. Let's talk about how to treat glaucoma.

How should glaucoma be treated

First: use glaucoma drugs. The drugs here mainly refer to ophthalmic drugs. Of course, some oral and intravenous drugs are temporary and not suitable for long-term use. At present, the medical level of glaucoma can not be cured. There is no medicine that can cure it. The drugs are mainly to reduce the intraocular pressure. Oral and intravenous drip can not be used for a long time. The drug treatment is mainly to point the eyedrops and reduce the intraocular pressure.

Second: the means of reducing intraocular pressure is a variety of laser methods, for open-angle glaucoma, angle closure glaucoma have different laser treatment, for some advanced glaucoma can also use some laser treatment.

Third: surgical treatment, but also lower intraocular pressure, surgery has a variety of operations, some operations are aimed at the eyes inside the aqueous humor fluid dredge, let it flow more alive. For example, angle closure glaucoma, let the angle open wider, is to play such a role in surgery. Another kind of operation is to make the water in the eyes drain out a little, from the eyes to the outside, so as to reduce the intraocular pressure. This is called filtering operation. There is also a late stage, that is to say, let water not come out. This is a very late stage of some patients, mainly for reducing intraocular pressure is the three methods, of course, different diseases, different severity of the disease, stage, our choice is not the same, in the end is to choose medicine, or choose laser, or surgery, are not the same.

matters needing attention

If you are not sure if you are suffering from glaucoma, please do not treat yourself, you should go to a regular hospital for diagnosis and treatment!