Posts Tagged: glaucoma treatment
16th December 2021
Glaucoma: The silent thief of sight.
What is Glaucoma? Glaucoma is a disease that despairs the optic nerve. This nerve is responsible for carrying information from your eye to the brain, so when it gets damaged, there’s a high risk of losing your vision. While experts are still researching to determine the precise cause of glaucoma, the cases are divided into…
7th May 2021
Why Should You Take Care Of Glaucoma?
Usually, when the term eye disease comes up, most people recall the names of only few popular eye disorders like cataract, sty and blurred vision due to an allergy or infection. Very few must be aware with the term glaucoma let alone basic knowledge about this very dangerous and common eye disease affecting people in…
7th January 2021
5 Facts about Glaucoma that Can Save Your Vision
Glaucoma or kala motia causes damage to the optic nerve, and this happens due to the build-up of high intraocular pressure in the eye. In order to maintain healthy vision, the eye must properly regulate pressure by draining excess fluid. Glaucoma occurs when the eye cannot drain aqueous fluid, causing increased pressure in the eye and irreversible damage to the optic nerve. The…
22nd August 2020
Sharp Sight Organises Walk for World Glaucoma Awareness
The “Walk for Glaucoma Awareness” organised by Sharp Sight Eye Hospital was flagged off from its Swasthya Vihar (East Delhi) hospital. The aim of the event was to create awareness among people about the silent nature of glaucoma, an eye disease where the visual nerve gets damaged because of pressure rise within the eye. The…
25th May 2018
MIGS: The New Age Treatment For Glaucoma
Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness. It is a complicated disease in which damage to the optic nerve leads to progressive loss of vision. The optic nerve transmits visual data from the eye to the brain, and when this gets damaged, our vision suffers. The Internal Pressure of the Eye Usually, aqueous humor, the…
1st August 2014
Ethnicity and Genetics of Glaucoma
Glaucoma is a term that has always been associated as being one of the major causes of complete blindness in majority of people in the world. Since it is a disease that goes in hand with diabetes, people with high levels of sugar in their blood are more at risk from glaucoma than any other….
26th July 2014
Cataract Surgery in Eyes with Glaucoma
Cataract is in itself a troublesome disorder of the eye causing clouding in its lens and making it difficult to see things clearly. And to top it all, if the eye is also suffering from glaucoma, another fatal disease of the eyes then it becomes a tricky situation to treat such a condition. That is…
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