The old man beware of four kinds of eye disease

Beijing youan hospital, professor of ophthalmology GuoChunGang

Sources: health

        Recently, I division in a free yizhen activities, to come to consult eye disease and eye health care of the old man in an endless stream. The elderly from life to details, beware of four kinds of the occurrence of eye disease.

        Eating more vitamin C prevent the happening of the old cataract phacoemulsification is mainly caused by the age of crystal caused by metabolic abnormalities. Cataract cause vision loss is painless, a gradual development, especially with myopia or farsightedness, old man was wearing the right glasses suddenly become unclear, this may be cataract development performance. For early cataract patients, it may drop on time with treatment of cataract eyedrop delay cataract development; Or can be treated surgically. Eating tomatoes, oranges, apples, grapes and watermelon, kiwi, etc are rich in vitamin C fruits and vegetables can relieve symptoms.

        Emotional stability anti glaucoma glaucoma is a set of with optic nerve damage and visual field defects for characteristics of eye disease. Old people own eye development exists abnormal and emotional difference is the main induced factors; Older people often excessive use eye, such as long time to read the newspaper, also can cause glaucoma. Glaucoma although cannot be cured, but can control. Acute angle-closure glaucoma patients can have eye pain, headache, inspect content faintness, nausea, vomiting, see the light around the color ring, even vision slashed and obvious symptoms. Glaucoma patients edible day lily, longan, red jujube, Chinese wolfberry, such as kidney tonic, At the same time, should not be more water, in order to avoid aggravating illness, daily drinking milk, soybean milk, fruit juice, etc liquid diet also should right amount. In addition, glaucoma patients unfit to eat green Chinese onion, ginger, garlic and spicy food.

        Protect retinal preventing macular degeneration macular degeneration is the old common blinding eye disease, may and long-term chronic light damage, genetic, metabolism, nutrition, and factors related, and disease grow along with the age and heighten. If the old man appear to look at things in the field of deformation, a dark spot or declining eyesight situation, want to consider the possibility of appear fundus macular degeneration.

        Balanced age presbyopia presbyopia is because of the person old eyes after lens hardening or part of the hardening, the light regulation is insufficient, the focus of the light can't accurate gathered in the retina, and fall in behind the retina, appear to see close items and text to appear blurred phenomenon. Intake should be rich in vitamin A and B series of food, such as black soya bean, black sesame seed, lean meat, fish, eggs, milk, animal liver etc.