Age comes along with all sorts of health concerns. Eye care for adults is not to be overlooked as it is important to ensure good vision when a person grow older.
The Importance of Regular Eye Check
Even people with perfect vision should engage in regular eye exams. Adults, especially who are over 40 should have their eyes checked at least once every year. This will detect eye diseases before it become serious and cause long-term damages.
Age-related Vision Health Issues
As age advances, eye tissue tends to lose its elasticity. Proper care should be taken to slow or prevent the gradual degradation of eye tissue that causes major malfunctions.
Presbyopia
Presbyopia - cause by stiffening of eye lens as age advance. Mostly affect people in their 40s. The treatments include, eyeglasses, contact lenses and LASIK surgery.
Cataracts
Cataracts - cause by breaking down of proteins in the eye lens or the oxidation of the lenses. People with cataracts will experience blurry vision. If untreated, may cause blindness. Cataracts removal is possible by artificial lenses. Regular checkup is important for early detection and treatments.
Macular Degeneration
Another age related vision problem. It produce a distinctive pattern of vision loss. The vision lose starts at the center of image and the shape around it distorted. Although the causes are vary, the disease can be treated by medication, surgery or other specially design treatments.
Glaucoma
Glaucoma - involve a blockage of the normal flow of fluid through the eye. It may cause pain and dizziness in some cases. The symptoms of glaucoma usually are not very noticeable at early stages. Regular checkups by specialist is therefore important.
Dry Eyes
Dry eyes could be due to a number of different root causes. The age related one include the tear ducts that became less active as age advances. The eyes become dry , itchy and red. Treatments are available for this syndrome.
Diabetic Retinopathy
Diabetic can affects eye. Macular edema is a type of diabetic retinopathy where blood from weaken vessels is released into the fluid of eye. The clotted blood obstruct vision as dark spots in patient's viewing field. With proper eye care, adults with this disease can have improve vision.
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Eye Care - Children and Teenagers
Generally, serious eye diseases such as glaucoma, macular degeneration and cataracts rarely happen on young people. However, necessary eye care is still important young people. A simple refractive error of eye may give big impact to a child. If a child is unable to read properly due to vision problem, it may affects their performance in school.
Regular checkups are important to detect vision problems as children are often unable to recognise vision problem themselves or they are unable to describe the impairments to their parents.
When should children have their eye check?
Generally, vision screening for a child can start at the age of 3. If there is any problem detected at this stage, eye specialist should be consulted for more testing and treatments.
How often should children have their eye check?
Annual eye checkups should be carried out throughout the teen years. If there is an eye sight problem detected, prescriptions or treatment plans will need to be drawn out and updated regularly as the eyesight quality of a child often unstable until adulthood.
What are the vision problem often affect children?
Myopia (Short sighted) and hyperopia (Far sighted) are quite common nowadays amongst children. The problem may be due to error in eyeball shape. This causes blur vision.
Astigmatism - Due to irregular corneas shape. Usually corrected with glasses or contact lenses.
Amblyopia (Lazy eye) and strabismus (Crossed eyes) - usually reduce vision quality. It can also impair depth perception. If not treated, the brain may completely ignore image from one of the eye. Eye care specialist will be able to restore partly or fully the normal vision quality if the problems are addressed early.
What are the symptoms?
Children with red or irritated eyes should see an eye specialist as soon as possible. Children who read/watch at a distance closer or farther than normal could be suffering from eyesight problem and eye specialist should be consulted.
Regular checkups are important to detect vision problems as children are often unable to recognise vision problem themselves or they are unable to describe the impairments to their parents.
When should children have their eye check?
Generally, vision screening for a child can start at the age of 3. If there is any problem detected at this stage, eye specialist should be consulted for more testing and treatments.
How often should children have their eye check?
Annual eye checkups should be carried out throughout the teen years. If there is an eye sight problem detected, prescriptions or treatment plans will need to be drawn out and updated regularly as the eyesight quality of a child often unstable until adulthood.
What are the vision problem often affect children?
Myopia (Short sighted) and hyperopia (Far sighted) are quite common nowadays amongst children. The problem may be due to error in eyeball shape. This causes blur vision.
Astigmatism - Due to irregular corneas shape. Usually corrected with glasses or contact lenses.
Amblyopia (Lazy eye) and strabismus (Crossed eyes) - usually reduce vision quality. It can also impair depth perception. If not treated, the brain may completely ignore image from one of the eye. Eye care specialist will be able to restore partly or fully the normal vision quality if the problems are addressed early.
What are the symptoms?
Children with red or irritated eyes should see an eye specialist as soon as possible. Children who read/watch at a distance closer or farther than normal could be suffering from eyesight problem and eye specialist should be consulted.
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