Cures, Medication and Procedures of Detecting Glaucoma
In the next several pages will be explained the
cures, medication, and procedure of detecting glaucoma.
The reasons this was wrote on glaucoma, was because I have
always wondered why these few people that have glaucoma get
to use a illegal drug(marijuana). I also was curious on what
glaucoma exactly is and when it could effect me, or any of
my family members.
Glaucoma is a disease that effects your vision or optic
nerves. Most people do not know that they have it until its
to late to properly treat it. Glaucoma does not usually
effect young children. It doesn't even usually effect the
ages twelve through twenty. Around the age of twenty one is
when you should go and get your first check up. Many people
do not get yearly check ups and that's how it gets out of
control. Glaucoma effects only 2% of the population. If
people over the age of 21 would go and get themselves
checked then most people would not have to deal with
the major effect which is blindness. Yet many people fail to
understand the importance of getting checked. You can get
checked by any optimist, all you have to do is call them and
set up an appointment.
What is glaucoma, you might be asking your self. Well as
you know glaucoma is a disease that effects your optic
nerves, or in other words your vision. The eye is a round
looking figure filled with fluid. When the fluid in the eye
increases, so does the pressure. The body's normal approach
to increase of pressure is a small opening in the anterior
chamber, in the bottom. When glaucoma forms, the opening in
the angle will not open so the pressure wil...
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...ng and came up with that THC
lowers the IOP, a lot more than normal treatments. One
patient had a reduction from 40mmhg to 10mmhg in one eye and
35mmhg to 15mmhg in the other eye. What needs to be
determined is if eating or smoking marijuana lowers pressure
the most. It also needs to be determined if there is a safer
way, such as a inhaler. Before using this treatment you
should consider other treatments and relate your blood
pressure and IOP measuring because tolerance is a
development. After reviewing this paper a decision was made,
if I ever developed glaucoma I would use eye drops as a
treatment, for a few reasons. One is because it is the
safest of all treatments and second it is the simplest.
My next option would be to smoke or eat marijuana because it
is known that it is a effective way to treat glaucoma.
THC affects the limbic system which is vital to some every day functions.... ... middle of paper ... ... Heavy smoking monkeys had synaptic vesicles that were clumped together.
Saxena, Rohit, Diguijay Singh, and Praveen Vashist. “Glaucoma: An Emerging Peril.” Indian Journal of Community Medicine 38.3 (2013): 135-7: Proquest. Web. 7 Jan 2014.
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Glaucoma is a disease of the eye and it is fluid pressure within the eye rises and if the eye is left untreated the patient might lose vision or maybe even blind. But this disease is generally affects both eyes but although one of their eyes may have more severe signs or symptoms then the other eye. When you have glaucoma there are small spaces in the front of the eye and they are called anterior chamber. There is clear liquid that flows in and out of the anterior chamber and the fluid nourishes and bathes nearby the tissues. And if the patient has glaucoma the fluid dose not drain like it should drain but the fluid drains out of the eye. And this may lead to fluid build up and pressure inside the rises of the eye. Unless the pressure is brought down and controlled and the optic nerves and some of the other parts of the eye might become damaged leading to ...
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