Glaucoma is a terrible, irreversible blinding eye disease. There is a certain amount of pressure in the human eye, and it mainly relies on the aqueous humor in the eye to maintain balance.
If the drainage channel of aqueous humor is blocked, and the aqueous humor is still being produced, the pressure in the eye increases. When the intraocular pressure exceeds the capacity of the optic nerve, the optic nerve is damaged, resulting in a loss of visual field, which is known as glaucoma.
Experts from Changsha Aier Eye Hospital said: glaucoma is a chronic disease, the development process is slow, the first cycle is long, and it also has a certain hereditary nature.
1. Is glaucoma hereditary?
Glaucoma has a certain genetic predisposition!
If you have glaucoma in your family, others in your family are more likely to develop glaucoma than the average person. Although the blindness caused by glaucoma is irreversible, the vast majority of glaucoma patients can maintain useful visual function for life after diagnosis and timely scientific diagnosis**.
Therefore, if there is a history of glaucoma in the family, other family members should go to a professional eye hospital for screening as soon as possible, and at the same time, they should pay regular attention to the changes in intraocular pressure, optic nerve and visual field, and follow up regularly.
Once you find that you have eye swelling, headache and other abnormal phenomena, you must go to the hospital for examination in time, and take the initiative to tell the doctor that you have a family history of glaucoma, so as to get timely diagnosis and treatment to avoid irreversible visual damage.
2. How to detect the early symptoms of glaucoma?
Open-angle glaucoma has a slower onset and vision is lost silently until most of the vision is lost. Angle-closure glaucoma, on the other hand, is divided into acute and chronic.
Acute angle-closure glaucoma progresses rapidly during the attack, and there will be severe eye pain, eye swelling, dizziness, nausea and vomiting and other symptoms, which can cause rapid vision blindness in a short period of timeChronic angle-closure glaucoma, on the other hand, tends to have less obvious symptoms in the early stages.
Therefore, regardless of whether there is a family history of glaucoma, regular eye check-ups should be done to ensure that glaucoma can be detected in time.
3. What should I do if I have inherited glaucoma?
Most of the glaucoma is mainly surgical, and the sooner the intervention is the better. If it occurs in infancy, 360-degree viscotuciotomy, trabeculotomy, etc. can be used.
In the adolescent period, XEN drainage nail implantation, trabeculectomy, micropulse fasciosclera laser, etc. are generally used. Lifelong follow-up after surgery, regular re-examination and medication according to the doctor's instructions, and no unauthorized discontinuation or change of medication.
Daily life should be regular, do not read books and newspapers for a long time, do not look at mobile phones or TV for a long time when the lights are off, eat lightly, quit smoking and limit alcohol, maintain a good mood and good sleep, and avoid excessive mood swings.
Once there are signs of onset, you should go to the hospital immediately and actively cooperate** to prevent sudden loss of visual function.
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