The importance of taking care of our eye health at any age is the focus of today’s global World Sight Day. Love your eyes is the central theme of the day. Led by the World Health Organization along with health institutions around the world.
Eye health is essential for maintaining a good quality of life, the call reflects. Emphasizing that diseases such as glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, and retinopathy are some of the leading causes of vision loss in adults.
The problem is that, in most cases, these conditions progress silently and without obvious symptoms in their early stages. Detecting them early is key to avoiding irreversible damage.
Moreover the retina and optic nerve are very sensitive structures. Once damaged, they do not regenerate. This means that vision lost due to glaucoma or retinopathy cannot be recovered. However, current treatments can slow the progression of these diseases if diagnosed in their early stages.
Regular eye exams, especially starting at age 40 or in people with risk factors (family history, hypertension, diabetes, smoking, high myopia), are the best prevention tool, they emphasize.
It is also very important to detect amblyopia, or lazy eye, early in children, since it is very difficult to treat after 7 or 8 years of age. At this age, it is also important to correct strabismus and detect disorders of the visual skills. Involved in learning in order to implement appropriate vision therapies to prevent academic failure due to this cause.
Data from the Pan American Health Organization highlight that in nine countries in the región. The highest prevalence of blindness and visual impairment occurs in rural and marginalized areas.
The burden of blindness is not evenly distributed in Latin America and the Caribbean. In many countries, it is estimated that for every million inhabitants, there are 5,000 blind people and 20,000 people with visual impairment. At least two-thirds of these are due to treatable causes. Such as cataracts, refractive errors, diabetic retinopathy, childhood blindness, glaucoma, onchocerciasis, and trachoma.
With information from Prensa Latina
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