Glaucoma

Glaucoma

What is glaucoma :

Glaucoma is a condition that causes damage to your eye’s optic nerve and gets worse over time. It’s often linked to a build up of pressure inside your eye. The first sign is often a loss of peripheral, or side, vision.

Symptoms :

• Halos around ligh
• Vision loss
• Redness in the eye
• Eye that looks hazy (particularly in infants)
• Nausea or vomiting
• Eye pain
• Narrowed vision (tunnel visio

Treatment :

Medical treatment: –

Glaucoma can be treated with  certain medication (Eye drops and tablets) so as to lower your eye pressure which should use  regularly as directed by your ophthalmologist

Laser treatment: –

If glaucoma is not controlled with the help of medicines  the second option is LASER TREATMENT.

YAG Laser Peripheral Iridotomy
This is an OPD procedure, done under local anesthetic drops and takes only a few minutes to be completed.

Operative procedures

Operation for glaucoma(Trabeculectomy ) is the only option left for patients in whom the eye pressure is not controlled with medication or laser