With the growth of age and the improvement of living standards, the number of diabetic patients in China has exceeded 115 million, and one in ten people has diabetes. The risk of blindness is greatly increased. Do you know your vision? Do you know how to treat diabetic eye disease?
“I never thought that my diabetes would affect my eyes.” Aunt Wang said after listening to the lecture: “I have had diabetes for more than ten years. It is the reason of getting old, and I never thought that it has something to do with diabetes.”
Diabetes is a common chronic disease in life. With the development of the disease, it will cause various complications. The disease is often hidden deeper, and once it occurs, it will cause great damage to the patient’s vision, and even lead to blindness in severe cases.
In order to improve everyone’s awareness of diabetic eye disease and call on diabetic patients to pay attention to eye health issues, on February 14, Xining Aier Eye Hospital held a “Fundus Photo, Eye Diseases” at Nanshan Road Community Service Center. Early Knowing Diabetic Eye Disease and Its Prevention and Treatment Public Welfare Lecture, Hou Lei, Director of the Department of Ophthalmology, Xining Aier Eye Hospital, was specially invited to popularize the relevant knowledge on how to correctly prevent and deal with diabetic eye complications, and give free lectures for middle-aged and elderly friends who participated in the conference. Check blood sugar and check eyes.
During the lecture, Director Hou Lei introduced the manifestations of diabetic eye disease, how to control it, how diabetics should protect their eyes, and how to detect diabetic retinopathy in easy-to-understand language. The questions and knowledge that diabetic patients are most concerned about were taught in detail, and the questions raised by everyone were answered on the spot.
Director Hou Lei reminded: Strict control of blood sugar is the fundamental measure to prevent and treat diabetic eye disease. If you are diagnosed with diabetes, even if you have no eye symptoms, you should go to a professional eye hospital for an eye examination every six months; and patients diagnosed with diabetic retinopathy should be followed up every 2-3 months; diabetes The occurrence of eye lesions is a slow process, and the early symptoms are not obvious. Once obvious symptoms appear, it means that the complications have existed for a certain period of time. Therefore, diabetic patients must be detected and treated in time to control the development of the disease and reduce the risk of complications. eye damage.