Some good news for people suffering from retinal vein occlusion of the eye. New research has indicated that steroid injections have been shown effective in treatment. This is a disease that affects many diabetics, and is often difficult to treat.

In retinal vein occlusion, the “blood vessels in the retina become blocked” and cause a the patient to gradually lose vision. Currently there is no treatment for the main cause of this disease, which is the “central vein that provides blood to the eye.” The disease is usually treated by using lasers to unblock the tiny blood …read more

Dump Your Sugar Addiction, Avoid Age-Related Macular Degeneration
By Guest Blogger Anders Wedin, OD
A high sugar diet affects the body in many different ways, all of which put your health at risk. Widely known is the increased risk of obesity (defined by a high Body Mass Index or BMI), but an equally serious effect that is often neglected when discussing high sugary foods is the connection between excessive sugar ingestion and vision impairments. It is the intention of this article to explain how a “sugar addiction” can damage your vision severely.
There are several vision impairments that are directly caused by …read more

Macular degeneration is a frightening diagnosis for elderly patients, and new research has indicated that it could be related in some ways to Alzheimer’s disease. According to one source, “both conditions involve similar changes in the brain and eye, including the buildup of protein fragments known as beta-amyloid.” Also, the two diseases both are made worse with high blood pressure and cigarette smoking, and are linked to a higher risk of stroke.

Also, when older adults score lower on tests related to memory and learning, they are more likely to have the “early stages of the eye disease age-related …read more

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a visual impairment common among the elderly in which the center of the field of vision appears as a black spot (see image here). It affects approximately 15 million Americans and in the UK, about 12% of men and 29% of women over the age of 75 suffer from this partial blindness. Aside from age and genetics, one of the main factors thought to influence the risk of developing AMD is the diet. According to an article in the ScienceDaily:
Spinach and some other vegetables like sweetcorn, kale and broccoli are rich in a chemical called …read more