Treat Glaucoma Successfully with Laser Eye Surgery

Today, glaucoma is considered one of the major reasons for blindness in the world. This is a severe eye disease which involves high pressure in the eyes. But, if discovered early, it can get treated successfully.  There are myriad of treatments available to treat glaucoma and the most efficient one is with the help of surgery. This is done in case all other options for treating glaucoma have failed.
 

The term glaucoma is a combination of several eye problems which have same mechanism of destroying the eye sight. It will directly destroy your optic nerve and the main root of this disease is still unclear. But the facts show that people who are over 40 years of age, those who have eye history of such disease and black people have higher chances to get affected by this disease.
 

In general, glaucoma can be treated with some medications. However, if those medications can not work, eye surgery is the only method. Depending upon the severity, either a filtering microsurgery or laser treatment is performed. These surgeries result in lowering down the eye pressure by removing the excess fluid from the aqueous humor, or they reduce the production of the fluid. The recovery period after the surgery is important in the treatment of glaucoma eye disease.
 

Speaking about laser surgery for glaucoma; this is an operation used for open angle glaucoma which is a quick and safe process requiring no recovery time. Let us cast a glance below to know more about this surgery.
 

• The laser is focused at drainage channels in the eye and a tiny hole will be made to help the fluid drain out. In this surgery, the drainage capabilities of the eye are enhanced leading to reduce the eye pressure.

• This type of surgery is recommended when the condition is not so bad as well as there is not much damage to the optic nerve.

• The recovery involved in this type of surgery is very short, but you should not strain your body through lifting or bending for a week or two.

• Once done with laser surgery for glaucoma, the person must visit the ophthalmologist for regular eye checkups.

Well, undergoing laser surgery for glaucoma is not something which anybody wants to have to go through. The best thing to avoid it is that if a person gets regular check-ups and takes care of his eye health, then there are the chances that they might never have to undergo glaucoma operation. Taking care of your health is always the smartest thing that you can do for yourself.