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Patients
with glaucoma are
encouraged to lead normal
lives. Activities that use the eyes,
such as reading, do not
make glaucoma worse.
There are no special dietary
restrictions for people with glaucoma.
Glaucoma is not contagious.
Patients
with glaucoma should
contact their ophthalmologist immediately if they
develop an eye problem that concerns them. A sudden
loss of vision,
eye pain or the
appearance of halos
around lights are a few symptoms for concern. If a
patient's physician cannot be reached, he or she
should go to a hospital emergency room that provides
emergency eye care. |
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Anyone
can develop glaucoma.
However, close relatives
of patients with primary
glaucoma are more likely than the general
population to develop the disease. Therefore, if you
have a relative with glaucoma --
parent, grandparent, aunt,
uncle, brother, sister, cousin or child -- it
is especially important to have regular
eye examinations.
If you
have glaucoma, you
should tell your relatives so they can be examined.
Remember, the most common type of glaucoma causes
no symptoms until it is
very advanced, and
early diagnosis and
treatment is the best
way to arrest the disease and save vision. |
