Every Little Thing You Have To Know About Macular Degeneration

By Dr. Ronald Cauchard


Macular degeneration occurs when there's a build-up of product between the blood amount and the retina that stops the retina from obtaining the effective nourishment, it's almost like rust on the body of a car. The macular degeneration which we specifically call 'drusen' accumulates in the retina and this drusen is the same thing as rust on an automobile that stops the vehicle from functioning properly, it likewise avoids the eye, the drusen, from working correctly.

To aid manage macular degeneration, like cleaning rusty cars, we attempt to place a prevention on it. When you have macular degeneration it's really tough to cure, yet you can do things to attempt to stop it from taking place. We make use of a bunch of good sense items like ultraviolet protection in your sunglasses, effective nutrition with antioxidants that stop the "the bad rust from taking place", we make an effort to address the illness before it takes place. Procedure for the condition is generally in the form of injections in to the eyes, we attempt not to do that unless it's essential.

Macular degeneration is an age related incident usually and as individuals live much longer the event and the amount of people who get macular degeneration grows each year. There is much less macular changes in men and women that are in their 40's and 50's, as we reach our 70's and 80's it develops much more frequently and as we reach our 90's it happens far more often, so the disease is associated with the potential for us to live longer and the direct exposure to ecological variables and nutritional factors makes every little thing worse as we age.

Oftens individuals are unaware that they have macular degeneration, they'll enter our office and state "I have fuzzy vision, I might need a pair of glasses" or "I think I have a cataract" and the real problem is the macular is not a cataract or an eyesight prescription. Sadly those people are more difficult. It's much easier to try to work with an individual when they are more youthful prior to these vision adjustments occur. That's why we try to guide our clients, if you have a family history of macular degeneration, if you have a family history of anyone who lost their vision from a not known reason, if you have chalky skin and blue eyes, which is another threat factor. We likewise guide people, like every doctor must, to try to stop cigarette smoking, because smoking is also a risk factor for macular degeneration. So our emphasis in the office is always been much more on precautionary instead of addressing it, it's a lot less complicated to prevent the disease and make people see longer than it is to obtain the disease and try to cure them.

We try to try to find the risk aspects then those people will certainly obtain examined for macular degeneration. Screening would entail dilating the eyes. We look at the back at the retina and we know if they're doing callous examinations on individuals, the signs of very early macular degeneration. We likewise have the most sophisticated screening which is called an OCT, which in fact shows us changes in the retina prior to it has an effect on the person's vision, so when we dilate the pupil we know exactly what the eye needs to look like. In many cases we have pictures of the rear of the eye that we could actually see if there are any type of adjustments from the previous appointment, so when we look at the retina we can see the changes that could be a precursor of macular degeneration. Most of all we believe listening to the patient and paying attention to their family past is an extremely important point so we could guide individuals prior to they have these modifications. But by dilating the eye and searching in the back end we could inspect for macular degeneration, and the other test, as I said, the more recent instrumentation, the OCT gives us much more information that we had even 5 or 10 years ago.




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