Taking Care Of Your Retina

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Taking Care Of Your Retina
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Synopsis

• Eye Health Caring for your Retina
• Diabetes and the prevention of Retinal Problems
• Retina Problems can be Associated with Age
• Latest Advances in Retina Treatments for Vision
  Loss

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Eye Health Caring for your Retina

• Retina detachment can occur at any time due to
  sporting injuries, vehicular accidents and
  general health problems and especially diabetes.
  The retinarequires a steady normal blood flow to
  perform correctly and therefore any interruption
  to this such as blood pressure elevation will
  cause problems. Retinopathy, being damage to the
  retina can cause vision impairment.Diabetic
  retinopathy is the cause of blindness in roughly
  4-5 of the world population and exceptional
  care should be taken by diabetics and coupled
  with frequent inspections of the retina to check
  pressures etc. Diabetics with impaired vision
  need to be especially mindful of any trauma which
  might affect the retina. Damaged blood vessels
  sometimes manifested at the back of the eye is
  often the cause of retinal detachment or possibly
  a tear in the retina.
• A retinal tear will allow fluids to seep behind
  the eye and is often the cause of retinal
  detachment. This tare can be surgically repaired
  using lasers which is one method. The lasers will
  heal the tear restoring the eye to a normal
  function after a while. High blood pressures can
  cause vitreous hemorrhage and be present even in
  younger people. Any trauma especially can cause
  vitreous hemorrhage and retinal detachment.
  Especially seen on older people, macular
  degeneration can cause blurred or impaired vision
  of some form. A diagnosis of this can only be
  seen by an eye examination which is absolutely
  necessary as one grows older.

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Diabetes and the prevention of Retinal Problems

• The intolerance of our body to combat blood sugar
  levels, and there are many reasons, but generally
  our inability to produce enough insulin can
  affect our eyes. It is also true then that our
  general health, and any bodily infections can
  cause harm to the eyes. In general, retinopathy,
  a chronic eye disease results from the damaging
  effects of poorly controlled blood sugar
  affecting the delicate blood vessels in the eye
  and leads to eventual blindness. This chronic
  disease has affected patients from as young as 20
  to 64 years of age in the US. Badly swollen blood
  vessels caused by poorly controlled sugar levels
  which lead to high blood pressure can burst the
  blood vessels in the eye. Due to this effect,
  fluid becomes present behind the retina often
  causing retinal detachment and in some case
  blindness.
• Dr Shane and his team who approach these patients
  with courtesy passion and respect have earned his
  practice a name and is known far and wide in many
  states. Using laser treatment, Dr Shane is able
  to repair these damaged retinas however diabetic
  patients are advised to visit the American
  academy of ophthalmology website for more
  information at http//www.asrs.org/patients/retin
  al-diseases/3/diabetic-retinopathy. Even these
  laser techniques cause irreversible burns on the
  retina and therefore diabetic patients are
  continually suffering from vision loss.

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Retina Problems can be Associated with Age

• Many patients think they are becoming blind when
  a detached retina occurs. Indeed, if they do not
  have it attended to speedily this can well be the
  end result. Dr Shane is in practice to
  specifically examine all aspects of the eye
  whilst being a retina specialist he would
  diagnose any disease, including vitreous disease
  with a detailed eye examination. Dr Shane is a
  vitreoretinalsurgeon. Another aspect of the
  ophthalmologist is to check for cataracts in the
  eye, basically a clumping of protein can become
  larger over time. They say time heals all things
  however, age is against you as far as the eyes
  go. The older we get a clouding of the lens takes
  place known as cataracts. They can affect the
  picture presented to the back of the. If retinal
  detachment is advanced, it will make the picture
  received by the retina somewhat less sharp. There
  is a twofold problem with cataracts. The cloudier
  the lens becomes the less light is received by
  the retina and therefore we cannot see so well.
  Images become blurry and bright lights such as
  car headlights when driving at night, seem starry
  and dazzle the eye
• A detached retina, which has pulled away from the
  soft tissue behind the eye, needs attention. Dr
  Shane will tell you that the eye has the final
  decision on what is presented to the brain and
  therefore the eye must be 100 correct in its
  retinal scan as possible.

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Latest Advances in Retina Treatments for Vision
Loss

• A brand new and advanced treatment for vision
  loss includes the development in imaging
  technology. This is commonly referred to as
  Optical Coherence Tomography or OTC. By using
  this OTC imaging photography, surgeons and
  ophthalmologists have been able to visualize any
  changes in the eye resulting in earlier
  threatened retinopathy. There are also some newer
  treatments which involve the injection into the
  retina to reduce swelling. This new method leaves
  no significant traces or burns as do the lasers.
• Dr Shane's best comment is asking patients "Have
  you ever been told there is a pot of gold at the
  end of a rainbow?" We all know that rainbows do
  not exist as tangible objects in the world,
  instead, it is an image created by the retina in
  the eye, a wonderful and delicate structure. The
  retina is responsible for all the color we see in
  our world and therefore, one could unanimously
  say it is worth a pot of gold. Understanding the
  structure of the retina, we could say it is
  similar to the inside lining of a basketball. It
  has the surface area of a silver dollar and has
  150 million cells called photoreceptors. These
  photoreceptors create images, translate the
  colors and send the image, possibly akin to the
  most complex transmission nerve impulse system,
  as IT professionals might call it, to the brain
  where it is interpreted and where they are
  processed into images.

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The End

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