What Can I Do to Prevent Glaucoma?

Early detection and cautious and lifelong treatment can maintain vision for most people. In general, glaucoma should be checked:

People with high risk factors need to test it every year, or every two years after age 35. People with high risk include African people, people with diabetes, people with family history of glaucoma. If parents, brothers and sisters suffer from glaucoma, the risk increases.

There is no known method for preventing glaucoma, but if the disease is recognized early, it can prevent blindness or significant visual loss of glaucoma. In its most common form - primary open angle glaucoma - loss of vision is silent, slow and progressive. Normally it affects lateral vision (peripheral vision) first, and as the progression progresses, central vision loss

Glaucoma drugs slow the progression of glaucoma by slowing intraocular pressure elevation (IOP) and delaying optic nerve injury. Surgical treatment is also possible

Regular exercise for moderate exercise will benefit your overall health and studies will walk more than three times a week or moderate exercise like jogging can reduce intraocular pressure I showed that I can do it.

As long as you continue exercising, the benefits of exercise will continue; this is the reason for recommending moderate exercise on a daily basis. Yoga may be beneficial, but as these may increase intraocular pressure it is best to avoid inverted handstand and shoulders.

It is important to wear safety glasses when you work on sports activities and housing renovation projects.

Since eye trauma can cause traumatic glaucoma or secondary glaucoma, protecting the eye from injury is another way to prevent glaucoma. For more information on various types of glaucoma please click here or consult your ophthalmologist.

Periodic and comprehensive eye examination is the best way to prevent glaucoma and other eye problems.

Robert L. Stamper, MD, University of California San Francisco, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology and Honorary Director of Glaucoma Service

Not all glaucoma can be prevented, but we can take measures to prevent the deterioration of glaucoma. Early glaucoma treatment is most effective. Experts agree that the best precautions for glaucoma are frequently eye care and eye exam, especially if you have diabetes. Age-related macular degeneration is an eye disease that is common among people over the age of 50. It may hurt behind the eyes and cause problems on objects in front of you. As the condition progresses, vision loss occurs in one or both eyes, and the blurred area at the center of the field of view increases with the passage of time. Objects also have reduced brightness

There is no known method for preventing glaucoma, but if the disease is recognized early, it can prevent blindness or significant visual loss of glaucoma. In its most common form - primary open angle glaucoma - loss of vision is silent, slow and progressive. Normally it affects lateral vision (peripheral vision) first, and as the progression progresses, central vision loss

Recent advances in early diagnosis and appropriate lifelong treatment may delay vision loss and prevent glaucoma blindness. These reduced the possibility of glaucoma's loss of vision in industrialized countries. However, in Nigeria, glaucoma has a high blindness rate similar to most countries in sub-Saharan Africa. This is because the people with glaucoma will receive treatment very late, and when they do, the treatment plan is not always available and the available treatment compliance is inadequate.

Editor's Note: Glaucoma is the main cause of irreversible blindness in the world, most influenced by Sub-Saharan Africa. This week (March 12 - 18, 2017) is a global glaucoma week, this year's theme is BIG, beat the invisible glaucoma. Our series of thinking leaders this week was written by a consultant ophthalmologist Fatima Kyari. She explains the dangers of glaucoma caused silence and gradual blindness and outlines the ways we can help to improve glaucoma prevention and care consciousness and service. Kyari is co-chair of West Africa International Blindness Prevention Bureau (IAPB).