Glaucoma is an eye disorder where there is pressure in the eyeball that can cause loss of vision. The pressure that is created is known as “intraocular pressure”. It mainly affects the optic nerve. If caught early enough, treatment can be done to prevent major vision loss, or for your vision to worsen. Glaucoma cannot only develop just from your drainage system malfunctioning. Babies can have an underdevelopment of the drainage system in their eye, which can be inherited, but is very rare. This type of Glaucoma is called Congenital Glaucoma. Along with that there are other types like Secondary Glaucoma, Pigmentary Glaucoma and so on.The pressure is caused when the eye cannot maintain the right amount of fluid. The eyes natural drainage system
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Symptoms develop slowly over time. The effects that develop are due to pressure to the optic nerve, which cause vision loss because the optic nerve fails to transmit images to the brain. The first symptom to occur is usually loss of peripheral vision, and then slowly resulting in having your normal vision decreasing.Treatments for Glaucoma include eye drops, pills, laser surgery, and traditional surgery. The goal with these treatments is to prevent loss of vision, as well as to lower intraocular pressure.There are several diagnoses and medical tests that can be conduced to determine glaucoma. One important test that can be done is tonometry. That is where the pressure of you eye is …show more content…
The first area the light hits is the 1.cornea and that is where the first bend occurs. It then goes to the 2.aqueous humor and through the 3.pupil where it then gets refracted once again by the 4.lens and the light is centered to the 6.retina, but not before it goes through the 5.vitreous humor. The lens is naturally convex lens, so the light bends towards the center. The path of the light for people with Glaucoma remains the same except the light reaches the retina through a much narrower tunnel.Myopia also known as nearsightedness is an eye condition where the lens doesn’t focus on the retina, but in front of it. Images in the distance are blurry and out of focus while objects up close are in focus. This condition can be fixed with a diverging lens so that the light will veer out onto the retina. In contrast to normal vision, people with myopia cant see far objects clearly, but they both can see close up objects good.Emmetropia is known as perfect
Symptoms develop slowly over time. The effects that develop are due to pressure to the optic nerve, which cause vision loss because the optic nerve fails to transmit images to the brain. The first symptom to occur is usually loss of peripheral vision, and then slowly resulting in having your normal vision decreasing.Treatments for Glaucoma include eye drops, pills, laser surgery, and traditional surgery. The goal with these treatments is to prevent loss of vision, as well as to lower intraocular pressure.There are several diagnoses and medical tests that can be conduced to determine glaucoma. One important test that can be done is tonometry. That is where the pressure of you eye is …show more content…
The first area the light hits is the 1.cornea and that is where the first bend occurs. It then goes to the 2.aqueous humor and through the 3.pupil where it then gets refracted once again by the 4.lens and the light is centered to the 6.retina, but not before it goes through the 5.vitreous humor. The lens is naturally convex lens, so the light bends towards the center. The path of the light for people with Glaucoma remains the same except the light reaches the retina through a much narrower tunnel.Myopia also known as nearsightedness is an eye condition where the lens doesn’t focus on the retina, but in front of it. Images in the distance are blurry and out of focus while objects up close are in focus. This condition can be fixed with a diverging lens so that the light will veer out onto the retina. In contrast to normal vision, people with myopia cant see far objects clearly, but they both can see close up objects good.Emmetropia is known as perfect