Glaucoma: The Worst to Happen On Your Eyes
It is one of the vital organs on our body: eyes. Without any depth and further explanations or description you surely understand how eyes are important for us. All visions are reflected through the eyes. There are even a saying states that eyes reflect one’s feeling and heart.
Being important, eyes are vulnerable toward some disease. There are some dangerous diseases which can obstruct eyes’ function. The worst is late cure or bad prevention that causes eye blindness. One of the worst eyes diseases is glaucoma. .Glaucoma is said to be heredity disease. It can be also caused by age. Glaucoma obstructs and damages the nerve on the eyes. It damages the optic nerve that receives the light from retina. The damage is gradually and progressive. One having glaucoma often does not know that he or she is suffering from this disease until he or she cannot see objects clearly. To best treat glaucoma is having eye surgery, but eye drop will also do good to make the process slower. Glaucoma will get worst when the pressure of the eyes is higher than normal (21 mmHg). There are many ways that one can do to make the process does not run fast. One way is to rest the eyes whenever it feels tense. Take a break when working one or two hours in front of computer. Less coffee drinking as the caffeine add the eyes ball pressure.
While it is said that it is heredity, if there is any one of your family has this disease, it will be wise to go to a specialist to check whether you suffer from this disease or not. Late diagnose will be dangerous. So delay no more time to check your eyes.