What is a picture of glaucoma symptoms?

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Glaucoma is a kind of eye disease with elevated intraocular pressure. High intraocular pressure will bring damage to all parts of the eyeball tissue and visual function. If not treated in time, the visual field can be completely lost and blind. The damage of optic nerve and visual field caused by glaucoma can not be reversed, and the atrophic optic nerve can not be regenerated. Therefore, early diagnosis and early treatment are emphasized. What is a picture of glaucoma symptoms? Let's talk about it.

What is a picture of glaucoma symptoms?

Symptom 1: elevated intraocular pressure, the first symptom of glaucoma is high intraocular pressure, once suffering from glaucoma, it will lead to elevated intraocular pressure, and then the disease will worsen, endangering the health of patients. Therefore, intraocular pressure should be controlled properly. Under normal circumstances, the normal intraocular pressure range is 10-21 mmHg. Touching the eyeball with fingers is elastic. When the intraocular pressure rises to 25-40 mmHg, touching the eyeball with fingers will feel harder. When it rises to 40-70 mm Hg, touch it with your fingers again, and the eyeball is as hard as stone.

Symptom 2: nausea and vomiting some people suffer from glaucoma, nausea and vomiting symptoms will appear. When the occurrence of nausea and vomiting and other symptoms, should be alert to the occurrence of glaucoma. Elevated intraocular pressure can also reflexively cause the excitation of vagus nerve and vomiting nerve center, resulting in severe nausea and vomiting.

Symptom 3: headache, eye distension, glaucoma has many symptoms, headache, eye distension is one of them. Because of the sharp rise of intraocular pressure, trigeminal nerve terminal slightly stimulated, reflexively cause trigeminal nerve distribution area pain, patients often feel migraine and eye pain.

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Glaucoma patients also need to maintain a light diet, do not eat spicy food, quit smoking and drinking, meal time is not high, too long interval, because hunger may lead to gastrointestinal blood concentration to the head, making intraocular pressure rise. Glaucoma patients should actively cooperate with the doctor for treatment, to avoid all kinds of easy to lead to elevated intraocular pressure and glaucoma attack.