Every night before going to bed, I turn off the lights, tuck in the quilt, and pick up my phone. This is my "bedtime ritual". Many people like to check their phones before going to bed. The dim environment makes people feel drowsy. But what they don’t know is that this habit is actually very harmful. Will turning off the lights and looking at your phone cause glaucoma? Will glaucoma eventually lead to blindness? Here's some scientific information. World Glaucoma Week (March 10th - March 16th) is coming, and this year's theme is "Jointly manage chronic glaucoma and keep the light forever." As the world's leading irreversible blinding eye disease, glaucoma is hidden in its onset and difficult to detect in the early stages, earning it the nickname "the thief of light." Glaucoma, like hypertension and diabetes, is a lifelong disease that usually develops gradually. It develops very slowly in the early stages and is easily overlooked. If it is not promptly controlled and treated, visual field loss and blindness will occur in the middle and late stages of the disease. Will you really go blind if you turn off the lights and play with your phone?
How does eye "pressure" increase?
The intraocular pressure is high and the symptoms are frequent. The main symptom of glaucoma is increased intraocular pressure. According to the cause, it can be divided into three categories: primary glaucoma, secondary glaucoma, and congenital glaucoma. Among them, primary glaucoma is divided into open-angle glaucoma and closed-angle glaucoma. Open-angle glaucoma develops slowly, has no obvious symptoms, and is easily ignored, so it is necessary to be highly vigilant. Closed-angle glaucoma may have an acute attack, which may cause complete blindness within 24-48 hours. Every second counts to save vision. Who are the high-risk groups?
Some people think that glaucoma is a disease exclusive to the elderly, but this is not the case. For young people, if visual fatigue is significantly worse than before, or more severe and frequent than their peers, they should pay attention and go to the eye department for a check-up. Myopic patients should also be alert to glaucoma if they have long-term visual fatigue, eye swelling, eye pain, and obvious vision loss, and their vision cannot reach 1.0 when they have eye examinations and glasses. How to prevent and treat glaucoma? Glaucoma can’t cause blindness in the late stage, so early intervention and prevention are very important. The key to its treatment lies in the “three earlys”: early detection, early diagnosis, and early treatment.
In short, don't take chances. If you often feel eye pain, redness, or even vision loss, you should go to an ophthalmologist for an intraocular pressure and fundus examination in time. |
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