Worth collecting | A "little secret recipe" for diabetics to protect their eyes at home during the Spring Festival!

The joy and rich food of the Spring Festival every year

All are full of deep "love" and thick "fat"

While causing blood sugar to soar

The rhythm of life is disrupted

Irregular work and rest schedule, unreasonable diet

Such high-intensity "torsion" is not friendly to the eyes

During the Spring Festival, consuming too much high-sugar, high-fat food and irregular lifestyle challenges the body's defense line. It may not only cause blood sugar levels to rise in diabetic patients, but also easily induce fundus lesions: neovascularization, macular edema, vitreous hemorrhage, retinal detachment... These can "darken" the patient's vision!

What is diabetic retinopathy?

He Junwen, deputy chief physician of fundus disease department of Aier Eye Hospital affiliated to Wuhan University , said: Diabetes is a common endocrine disease. It sounds like it has little to do with the eyes, but it is not. The harm of diabetes is that it can cause many chronic complications. Eye disease is one of the common chronic complications of diabetes, especially when proliferative diabetic retinopathy occurs, which will seriously affect the patient's vision and quality of life.

What are the common symptoms of diabetic retinopathy?

1. Decreased vision: blurred vision, double vision or difficulty reading.

2. Distorted vision: Things appear to be in abnormal shapes, bent or deformed.

3. Visual field loss: partial or complete loss of vision, or shadows or obstructions in the field of vision.

What are the main risks of diabetic retinopathy?

1. Blindness: Retinopathy caused by diabetes has become the main cause of blindness in people aged 20 to 65, and its blindness rate is 10 to 25 times higher than that of non-diabetic patients.

2. Impact on vision: Diabetic retinopathy may cause damage to the fundus barrier. When the fundus barrier is damaged, bleeding and exudation will occur, which will seriously affect vision. If the macular area is involved, central vision will decrease, accompanied by visual distortion.

3. Cause serious complications: Diabetic retinopathy may be complicated by hemorrhagic glaucoma, vitreous hemorrhage, macular degeneration, retinal detachment and other diseases.

Spring Festival eye protection "little secret recipe"

1. Eat regularly and consume a moderate amount of carbohydrates, fats, and high-calorie foods to meet your body's needs. Control your daily sugar intake, reduce smoking, and control your drinking.

2. Reasonable and effective exercise. Exercise can effectively consume calories, maintain normal body metabolism, promote blood circulation, and improve body functions.

3. Monitor blood sugar and blood pressure, strictly control diet and blood sugar levels, and do not indulge in excessive eating due to family reunions, which may cause excessive fluctuations in blood sugar and lead to accidents.

4. Medication cannot be stopped. During the Spring Festival, diabetic retinopathy patients must continue to take blood sugar and blood pressure lowering drugs as prescribed by the doctor. They cannot stop taking medication just because blood sugar is temporarily stable. Otherwise, it may lead to worsening of fundus lesions and other complications, and even aggravate cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

Wu Jianhua, associate professor, chief physician, deputy director of the third committee of the Hubei Provincial Medical Association's Ophthalmologists Branch, president of Wuhan University Aier Eye Hospital, and director of the fundus disease department, reminded that "diabetic retinopathy" is preventable and controllable. It is recommended that diabetics have regular fundus examinations and scientific management in daily life. Even if the disease occurs, there is no need to panic. Build confidence and adhere to standardized treatment to delay the occurrence of the disease. The fundus disease department of Wuhan University Aier Eye Hospital has opened a diabetic eye disease clinic to provide diagnosis and treatment services for diabetic eye disease patients.