Today (6th) is the 27th National Eye Care Day.
The National “Love Eyes Day” propaganda slogan issued by the National Health and Medical Commission recently has the following two sentences: a picture of an eye, chronic diseases are known earlier; a photo of the fundus, eye diseases are known earlier. Why the emphasis on taking pictures of the eyes? Who should have regular eye examinations?
A fundus photo can screen 80% of eye diseases
The major blinding eye diseases have changed from trachoma and cataract to age- and metabolism-related eye diseases such as glaucoma and fundus diseases. These blinding eye diseases often have no obvious symptoms in the early stage, and most of them are preventable and irreversible, and once they become ill, they are irreversible. Regular fundus examinations are essential. A fundus photo can screen out 80% of eye diseases, and can also detect 5 types of chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, and anemia.
Director of Shandong Children and Adolescent Myopia Prevention and Control Center Bi Hongsheng, Director of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Eye Hospital: The fundus is the only way we can see capillaries and microcirculation under direct vision The state of the whole, it can reflect the state of our systemic circulatory system. So like our common chronic diseases, high blood pressure, arteriosclerosis, diabetes, and our high myopia, it can have a specific reflection in our fundus, through which we can make a preliminary impression diagnosis.
Long-term high blood pressure can lead to stenosis, blockage and hemorrhage of fundus arteries. More than 30% of diabetic patients will develop retinopathy, which can lead to disability and blindness if not detected and intervened in time. Experts remind that patients with high blood pressure, diabetes, and people with high myopia should have regular fundus examinations.
Glaucoma is an irreversible blinding eye disease, young people need to be vigilant
There are more than 20 million glaucoma patients in my country, and glaucoma is the first irreversible eye disease Blind eye disease, once the patient is blind, there is no chance to regain sight. In the cognition of many people, glaucoma is a disease unique to the middle-aged and elderly, so can young people also get glaucoma?
Wang Tao, Director of the Department of Glaucoma, Beijing Tongren Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University: Actually glaucoma It can happen at different ages. For example, between the ages of 20 and 50, people in this age group are prone to primary open-angle glaucoma, which we call hidden vision killers. Its characteristic is that its onset is very asymptomatic, and it is often considered that his myopia may have worsened at the beginning, so he delayed going to the hospital for examination. In the early stage, after you find it, we can control the disease better by using drugs combined with laser. Then in the late stage, it will cause atrophy of the optic nerve, then our treatment effect will be relatively poor at this time.
Experts introduced that this type of open-angle glaucoma, which is easy to get in young people, has a familial tendency; ocular hypertension, Patients with high myopia and diabetes are also high-risk groups for glaucoma; in addition, young people spend a lot of time on mobile phones and computers, and they are in a state of excessive eye use, coupled with high work and life pressure, and mood swings. Regular fundus examination and intraocular pressure measurement are very meaningful for early detection, early diagnosis and early treatment of glaucoma.