- Keeping Up With Large Business
- How to Cure Nail Fungus
- Promotional Merchandise Will See You Through To 2011
- Foreign Outsourcing
- Make Your Walls Pop with Vinyl Wall Sayings
- Raising Chickens- Knowing The Knowledge
- Eftpos Terminals For Any Business
- The Components of Effective Leadership
- Japanese Phrases - Phrases You Shouldn't Learn
- Treatments For Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Eye Disease And Diabetes
Eye diseases such as cataracts and glaucoma affect diabetics and non diabetics alike, but diabetics are more likely to develop them and at an earlier age.
Eye diseases such as cataracts and glaucoma affect diabetics and non diabetics alike, but diabetics are more likely to develop them and at an earlier age.
Whilst both cataracts and glaucoma can be remedied with ease in the case of both diabetics and non diabetics, diabetics are susceptible to other forms of eye disease that can be much harder to treat because of their condition.
Only affecting duabetics, retinopathy is perhaps the biggest threat to the diabetic's eyesight.
In the recent past, those found to have contracted retinopathy would almost always go blind. In the UK, every diabetic has there eyes examined annually to check for the disease, which no longer means a loss of sight.
Very often you do not have to go to hospital for this examination as many local clinics have been set up with the equipment they need to do the scan.
To check for retinopathy, the patient's eyes are dilated using eyedrops, and then a picture of the back of the eye is taken and examined for any damage. These pictures are compared over time in order to see if there is any gradual damage.
If you are a smoker, drinker or have high blood pressure you are at heightened risk of contracting retinopathy. This is bad enough, but you are then more likely to suffer kidney failure or heart disease.
The way to treat retinopathy is by laser rather than drugs. Only 5% of diabetics claim to have suffereed serious loss of vision with this treatment, the other 95% may suffer some slight los of field and night vision, but this is a very small loss of vision, especially when compared to the potential total loss of vision this disease brings.
The bottom line is that if you wish to preserve your sight and indeed avoid other diabetic health complications, be sure to take the correct medicine at the correct time, and maintain close monitoring of your blood sugar levels.
Eye diseases such as cataracts and glaucoma affect diabetics and non diabetics alike, but diabetics are more likely to develop them and at an earlier age.
Whilst both cataracts and glaucoma can be remedied with ease in the case of both diabetics and non diabetics, diabetics are susceptible to other forms of eye disease that can be much harder to treat because of their condition.
Only affecting duabetics, retinopathy is perhaps the biggest threat to the diabetic's eyesight.
In the recent past, those found to have contracted retinopathy would almost always go blind. In the UK, every diabetic has there eyes examined annually to check for the disease, which no longer means a loss of sight.
Very often you do not have to go to hospital for this examination as many local clinics have been set up with the equipment they need to do the scan.
To check for retinopathy, the patient's eyes are dilated using eyedrops, and then a picture of the back of the eye is taken and examined for any damage. These pictures are compared over time in order to see if there is any gradual damage.
If you are a smoker, drinker or have high blood pressure you are at heightened risk of contracting retinopathy. This is bad enough, but you are then more likely to suffer kidney failure or heart disease.
The way to treat retinopathy is by laser rather than drugs. Only 5% of diabetics claim to have suffereed serious loss of vision with this treatment, the other 95% may suffer some slight los of field and night vision, but this is a very small loss of vision, especially when compared to the potential total loss of vision this disease brings.
The bottom line is that if you wish to preserve your sight and indeed avoid other diabetic health complications, be sure to take the correct medicine at the correct time, and maintain close monitoring of your blood sugar levels.
About the Author:
Toby has been diagnosed with diabetes for a number of years now. He also gets stress bought on by the diabetes. To help with this condition, he relaxes by making round table cloths. This helps him relax when he is stressed. Making round table cloths is a good way to combat stress.