Macular degeneration treatment

As we all know, eyes are very important to human beings. Without eyes, our world would be pitch black, without any color, and we would not be able to feel the beauty of this world. Therefore, we generally protect our eyes well. However, children nowadays suffer from myopia due to television, the Internet, or excessive reading.

In fact, myopia should be something very familiar to everyone, because there are many people around us who are myopic. Of course, in addition to myopia, there are many other eye diseases, such as keratitis, cataracts, macular disease, etc. Let's take a detailed look at macular degeneration.

The macula is an important area of ​​the retina, located at the posterior pole of the eye, and is primarily related to visual functions such as fine vision and color vision. Once lesions occur in the macular area, decreased vision, dark shadows in front of the eyes or distorted vision often occur. Macular degeneration is a common disease affecting the macula in the elderly. The exact cause is still unknown, and it may be related to genetics, vascular sclerosis, oxidative damage, chronic photodamage, inflammation, metabolic nutrition, etc. According to reports, the factors that cause macular degeneration include the following:

1. Age: The older you are, the greater the risk of developing macular degeneration;

2. Gender: Women are slightly more likely to have wet macular degeneration than men;

3. Family history: Some families are susceptible to the disease, although the specific gene for the disease has not yet been found;

4. People with hypertension, diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, cardiovascular disease, obesity, etc. are prone to macular degeneration;

5. Smoking, drinking, and nutritional deficiencies (such as carotene) can also cause macular degeneration;

6. Exposure to blue light and sunlight;

7. Environmental factors.

There is currently no specific treatment for macular degeneration in modern medicine. Clinically, antioxidants, vitamins, hemostatics, and optic nerve nutrients or cell activation preparations are often used according to the stage of the disease. For patients with choroidal neovascularization, photocoagulation should be performed as early as possible to prevent the condition from worsening. At this time, photocoagulation can block existing neovascularization but cannot prevent the formation of new neovascularization, so the above treatments are mostly symptomatic treatments. Due to the unique pharmacological effects of traditional Chinese medicine, it is very effective for treating chronic recurrent diseases, protecting photoreceptor cells, stabilizing and improving vision, preventing the recurrence of the disease, repairing scars, and preventing the development of the disease in the other eye. It is particularly good at absorbing old bleeding and exudation. It can adjust the human function as a whole and has minimal toxic side effects. Therefore, during the treatment process, we strive to use Chinese medicine as much as possible to achieve the effect of treating both the symptoms and the root causes.

Currently, there are four types of medical treatments for macular degeneration: surgical treatment, photodynamic therapy, laser therapy, and pupil thermotherapy. Of course, in addition to these existing methods, there may be many other methods of treating macular disease that are unknown to us. However, it is also very important to pay attention to rest when treating macular degeneration.