Diabetes Retinopathy: Symptoms, Causes, Prevention and Treatments
Definition
Diabetic retinopathy is a diabetes complication that affects eyes. It's caused by damage to the blood vessels of the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye (retina). At first, diabetic retinopathy may cause no symptoms or only mild vision problems. Eventually, it can cause blindness.
Symptoms
You might not have symptoms in the early stages of diabetic retinopathy. As the condition progresses, diabetic retinopathy symptoms may include:
– Spots or dark strings floating in your vision (floaters)
– Blurred vision
– Fluctuating vision
– Impaired color vision
– Dark or empty areas in your vision
– Vision loss
Causes
Over time, too much sugar in your blood can lead to the blockage of the tiny blood vessels that nourish the retina, cutting off its blood supply. As a result, the eye attempts to grow new blood vessels. But these new blood vessels don't develop properly and can leak easily.
Risk factors
Anyone who has diabetes can develop diabetic retinopathy. Risk of developing the eye condition can increase as a result of:
– Duration of diabetes — the longer you have diabetes, the greater your risk of developing diabetic retinopathy
– Poor control of your blood sugar level
– High blood pressure
– High cholesterol
– Pregnancy
– Tobacco use
– Being black, Hispanic or Native American
Prevention
If you have diabetes, reduce your risk of getting diabetic retinopathy by doing the following:
– Manage your diabetes
– Monitor your blood sugar level
– Keep your blood pressure and cholesterol under control
– If you smoke or use other types of tobacco, ask your doctor to help you quit
– Pay attention to vision changes
– Ask your doctor about a glycosylated hemoglobin test
Treatments
Treatment, which depends largely on the type of diabetic retinopathy you have and how severe it is, is geared to slowing or stopping progression of the condition.
1. Early diabetic retinopathy
If you have mild or moderate nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy, you may not need treatment right away. However, your eye doctor will closely monitor your eyes to determine when you might need treatment. When diabetic retinopathy is mild or moderate, good blood sugar control can usually slow the progression.
2. Advanced diabetic retinopathy
If you have proliferative diabetic retinopathy or macular edema, you'll need prompt surgical treatment.
Focal laser treatment
This laser treatment, also known as photocoagulation, can stop or slow the leakage of blood and fluid in the eye. During the procedure, leaks from abnormal blood vessels are treated with laser burns.
Scatter laser treatment
This laser treatment, also known as panretinal photocoagulation, can shrink the abnormal blood vessels. During the procedure, the areas of the retina away from the macula are treated with scattered laser burns. The burns cause the abnormal new blood vessels to shrink and scar.
Vitrectomy
This procedure uses a tiny incision in your eye to remove blood from the middle of the eye (vitreous) as well as scar tissue that's tugging on the retina. It's done in a surgery center or hospital using local or general anesthesia.
very informative but u going too fast. cannot read everything on the screen.
Pause it & read then advance to the next text
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Don’t you think a video for people who can’t see well should have been more audio??
My girlfriend has diabetes type one, and is completely blind. If anyone has any knowledge to offer me, please post. God bless.
Apko eye specialist se consult karna chahiye
Ankho me retina me swelling ke karn dikhna kam ho jata hai ya band ho jata hai
Yadi swelling thik ho jaye to vapis se dekh sakte hai
Isliye doctor kuchh enjection ankho me lagate hai
Hyd ke LVPrasad eye institute ya madras me kahi bhi bade eye hospital me eye treatment lijiye jarur fayda hoga
i suggest she eats no refined/processed foods/no meat, fish or dairy. Eating only organic vegetables, drinking spring water, please watch Dr Baxter and Dr Gabriel Cousins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C9-uP57Fx4&t=10s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pjkC71exKU
What kind of life is this where there are so many causes of problems and pain in the world
Sometimes life sucks
Treatment of vision retinopathy
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This is a really good video but it needs to be narrated for people with vision impairments!
a bit too fast.
I lost my one eye due to daibtac is there any treatment
thank goodness i don’t have diabetes
So if you have this issue, you can get rid of it?
excellent video thanks you for sharing, lots information
you are welcome..
Tq Well explaned
Risk factor in being Hispanic? Well damn, I’m fucked. :v
Ethuvme read panna mudiyala
i had the laser treatment in my left eye i now can’t see properly
be wary of getting this treatment it can go wrong
i had both eyes done for cataracts both were fine afterwards
then i went for a review where they photograph the back of the eye
said i needed the leakage treated so i went ahead no problem
6 months later they said i needed more so i went ahead
since then i have poor vision in my left eye
and fear treatment now in my right i actually refused it last time
due for another review soon fingers crossed
There’s still hope for people who can’t afford to go to a doctor. I’m half blind once for consuming too much softdrinks, first I see flashing rainbow light on my right peripherals and don’t know what to do. I just completely cut off my sugar consumption or anything sweet from my diet. a month later I’m completely cured. No medications.
@Shireen Fiza diabetes prevents the blood vessel from healing itlself.at first i dont know what i have so i continued to consume sugar.till i lost half of my eyesight.
@Shireen Fiza yes! thats true. half blind.but recovered 100%
Really?
What if you control your blood sugar and mentain it low and normal will it reverse my diabetes retinopathy?
*Very Very Informative Thanks*
How much is this treatment if you’re paying out of pocket.