The increased pressure in your eye, called intraocular pressure, can damage your optic nerve, which sends images to your brain . If the damage worsens, glaucoma can cause permanent vision loss or even total blindness within a few years.
Most people with glaucoma have no early symptoms or pain.
If you lose vision, it can’t be brought back. But lowering eye pressure can help you keep the sight you have. Most people with glaucoma who follow their
Causes
- The fluid inside your eye, called aqueous humor, usually flows out of your eye through a mesh-like channel. If this channel gets blocked, the liquid builds up. Sometimes, experts don’t know what causes this blockage. But it can be inherited, meaning it’s passed from parents to children.
- Less-common causes of glaucoma include a blunt or chemical injury to your eye, severe eye infection, blocked blood vessels inside your eye, and inflammatory conditions.
Risk Factors
- Are of African American, Irish, Russian, Japanese, Hispanic, Inuit, or Scandinavian descent
- Are over 40
- Have a family history of glaucoma
- Have poor vision
- Have diabetes
- Take certain steroid medications such as prednisone
- Have had an injury to your eye or eyes
- Have corneas that are thinner than usual
- Have high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, or sickle cell anemia
- Have high eye pressure
- Are nearsighted or farsighted
Types of Glaucoma
There are two main kinds:
- Open-angle glaucoma. This is the most common type. Your doctor may also call it wide- angle glaucoma. The drain structure in your eye (called the trabecular meshwork) looks fine, but fluid doesn’t flow out like it should.
- Angle-closure glaucoma. This is more common in Asia. You may also hear it called acute or chronic angle-closure or narrow-angle glaucoma. Your eye doesn’t drain like it should because the drain space between your iris and cornea becomes too narrow. This can cause a sudden buildup of pressure in your eye. It’s also linked to farsightedness and cataracts, a clouding of the lens inside your eye.
Less common types of glaucoma include:
- Secondary glaucoma. This is when another condition, like cataracts or diabetes, causes added pressure in your eye.
- Normal-tension glaucoma. This is when you have blind spots in your vision or your optic nerve is damaged even though your eye pressure is within the average range. Some experts say it’s a form of open-angle glaucoma.
- Pigmentary glaucoma. With this form, tiny bits of pigment from your iris, the colored part of your eye, get into the fluid inside your eye and clog the drainage canals.
Glaucoma Symptoms
Most people with open-angle glaucoma don’t have symptoms. If symptoms do develop, it’s usually late in the disease. That’s why glaucoma is often called the “sneak thief of vision.” The main sign is usually a loss of side, or peripheral, vision.
Symptoms of angle-closure glaucoma usually come on faster and are more obvious.
Damage can happen quickly. If you have any of these symptoms, get medical care right away:
- Seeing halos around lights
- Vision loss
- Redness in your eye
- Eye that looks hazy (particularly in infants)
- Upset stomach or vomiting
- Eye pain
Homoeopathic Treatment
- Homeopathy is very efficient in managing symptoms of Glaucoma and has an excellent success rate. It is very gentle and effective system of medicine.
- Homeopathic treatment is based on law of similars, it employs medicines which have greater beneficial action on eyes and optic nerve.
- Homeopathy can successfully treat Glaucoma without the intervention of surgery. Hence the side effect and risks involved in surgery are not present in Homeopathy.
- Homeopathy has excellent medicines which treat Glaucoma from its roots without any side effects. Well chosen Homeopathic medicine on the basis of totality is capable to stop and reverse the optic nerve damage and maintain perfect pressure within the eyes.
- Homeopathy stimulates the body’s healing capacities and strengthens immunity.
- Homeopathic Treatment for Glaucoma . has more than 80 natural, side-effect free remedies in its medicine bank for the treatment of this condition
Few of our amazing remedies include:
- OSMIUM METALLICUM: An effective remedy for Glaucoma with affected vision. Person sees greenish or rainbow colours around the light. Weeping mood is marked.
- PHOSPHORUS: Wonderful remedy for Glaucoma, where there is narrow field of vision with optic nerve atrophy. Sensation as if everything around is covered with mist & dust. Coloured vision followed by headache. Suits tall slender people who grow rapidly and then stoop. There is marked susceptibility to external impressions like light, sound, touch, etc.
- PHYSOSTIGMA: Remedy for Glaucoma that occurs after injury. Pain over eyes, cannot raise eyelids. Bloody red eyes with burning.
- SILICEA: Glaucoma in people who are always cold, chilly and lack vital heat.
Aversion to daylight which causes dazzling and sharp pain in the eyes. Vision
affected, letters run together on reading. Patient characteristically feels cold
before symptoms appear. Symptoms worse in winter.
- SPIGELIA: Good remedy for Glaucoma with intense pressure in the eyeballs,
which increases on turning the eyes. Eyes hurt on moving them and become too large.
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