World Glaucoma Week | Staying up late, turning off lights, and playing with your phone... These daily activities are stealing your vision

【Emergency Alert】Staying up late to rub numbness, watching dramas in the dark, delaying cataract treatment... These "daily habits" you think are detonating the glaucoma crisis! Picture Recently, the Glaucoma Ophthalmology Department of Dongguan Aier Eye Hospital received a number of patients whose intraocular pressure soared due to overuse of the eyes, neglect of treatment, and sudden drop in temperature, and was only one step away from blindness.

The world's first irreversible blinding eye disease

How close are you to it !?

Do you know?

Glaucoma is like a "thief of vision" hidden in the dark

It quietly steals your vision

Glaucoma is the world's first irreversible blinding eye disease [1], and the vast majority of glaucoma patients do not know that they have the disease and delay treatment. Some patients even have a sudden onset, and their vision can rapidly decline to blindness within a few days or even a few hours, or gradually lose their blindness unknowingly, forming permanent visual field defects.

How to prevent the harm of glaucoma?

Huashan Huashan, director of the Glaucoma Ophthalmology Department of Dongguan Aier Eye Hospital, said that early screening can find clues about it. People with a family history of glaucoma, diabetes, no eye examination over 35 years old, eye injuries, high myopia or farsightedness, and people who often stay up late, eat irregularly, and have large mood swings are all "high-risk groups" for glaucoma.

Once there is a sharp decrease in vision, severe eye swelling and eye pain, nausea and vomiting, obvious visual field obstruction, rainbow vision and other symptoms, it may be a sign of an acute attack of glaucoma! Within 48 hours, vision may be irreversibly impaired or even blind! Therefore, once diagnosed, you need to see a doctor immediately.

What is glaucoma emergency?

Emergency

Acute angle-closure glaucoma (major attack)

Severe disease

1. True small eyeballs

2. ICE syndrome

3. Malignant glaucoma

4. Neovascular glaucoma

5. After vitrectomy/silicone oil filling

6. Secondary glaucoma after corneal transplantation

7. Aphakia/lens dislocation secondary glaucoma

8. Congenital glaucoma

9. Intraocular pressure is out of control after anti-pneumatic surgery

March 9-March 15 is the 18th World Glaucoma Week, and this year's theme is "AI Collaborative Escort to Prevent Glaucoma Blindness". During this year's Glaucoma Week, we will provide one-stop service for glaucoma patients and make every effort to save their light.

# Glaucoma Ophthalmology Department of Dongguan Aier Eye Hospital

Always patient-centered, always illuminating hope

The Glaucoma Ophthalmology Department of Dongguan Aier Eye Hospital has deep technical strength and rich clinical experience in the diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma. The hospital has a group of professional medical teams, including President Liu Fei, a well-known domestic tertiary ophthalmology expert, and Director Huashan as the director of the department.

The department is equipped with professional glaucoma examination equipment, such as HUMPHREY perimetry, ultrasound biological microscope (UBM), optical phase coordination tomography (OCT), Kowa synchronous stereoscopic nerve camera, etc., to provide accurate diagnosis for screening, diagnosis and long-term follow-up of various types of glaucoma.

In addition, Glaucoma Ophthalmology offers a full range of treatment options, providing personalized treatment for various types of glaucoma and complex glaucoma. The specialty also establishes a scientific follow-up mechanism to ensure that patients can maintain useful visual function and improve their quality of life for a long time.

Care throughout the life cycle

Glaucoma is a lifelong disease that requires long-term follow-up. We have established a scientific follow-up mechanism, including patient self-management, family management, one-on-one exclusive service by eye health managers, and a lifelong eye health care system to provide patients with all-round life guidance and improve their quality of life.

At the same time, the hospital also actively established the "Glaucoma Patient Home", setting up the 6th of each month as "Glaucoma Care Day", through education and science popularization activities, to popularize glaucoma knowledge to patients and their relatives, enhance self-care awareness, and reduce the prevalence and blindness rate. We know that only through full life cycle care can we ensure that patients can maintain useful visual function and improve their quality of life for a long time.

References:

1、Quigley, H. A., & Broman, A. T. (2006). The number of people with glaucoma worldwide in 2010 and 2020. British Journal of Ophthalmology, 90(3), 262-267.