How to treat glaucoma?

Update Date: 2021-08-03 Source: Network

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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. How to treat glaucoma? Let's talk about it

How to treat glaucoma?

With glaucoma drugs, the drugs here mainly refer to eyedrops. Of course, there are also some oral and intravenous drops, which 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.

Surgical treatment, but also lower intraocular pressure, surgery has a variety of operations, some operations are aimed at the eyes inside the aqueous humor liquid dredge, let it flow some live. 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.

There are different laser treatments for open-angle glaucoma and angle closure glaucoma, and some laser treatments can be used for advanced glaucoma.

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If you have glaucoma, you can take 100-200 mg of germanium every day and supply oxygen to your eyes to relieve eye pain