GLAUCOMA

Daniel Alejandro Clavijo Basto

 CONTENTS

What is glaucoma?
Typs of glaucoma.
Sing and symptoms.
Diagnosis and treatment.
test for glaucoma.
Prevention.
Uptdate information.
Cannabis as a treatment for glaucoma.
DEFINITION

Glaucoma is a group of diseases

that can damage the eye's optic
nerve by increasing the pressure
inside the eye and if the damage
continues can lead to a permanent
vision loss.

TYPS OF GLAUCOMA

Open-angle glaucoma.

Angle-closure glaucoma.
TYPS OF GLAUCOMA
SING AND SYMPTOMS

Most people doesnt have any symptom. But

the first sign is often a loss of peripheral, or
side, vision. Other symptoms that can appear
are:
Seeing halos around lights.
Eye pain.
Narrowed vision (tunnel vision).

Glaucoma can go unnoticed until its to late.

Thats why glaucoma is often called the
"sneak thief of vision."
DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT

Glaucoma tests are painless and take very little time. Your eye doctor will do a test called
tonometry to check your eye pressure, then hell test your vision and examine your eyes.

Examining Name of the test

The inner eye pressure. Tonometry
The shape and color of the optic nerve. Ophthalmoscopy ( dilated eye exam)
The complete fild of visin. Perimetry (visual field test)
The angle in the eye where the iris meets the Gonioscopy
cornea.

Thickness of the cornea. Pachymetry

DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT

The most common tratment for glaucoma are

eye drops and in rarely cases, pills. Doctors use a
numbre of different categoris of eye drops to
treat glaucoma.
PREVENTION

Early detection and careful, lifelong treatment can

maintain vision in most people. In general, a check for
glaucoma should be done:

before age 40, every two to four years

from age 40 to age 54, every one to three years
from age 55 to 64, every one to two years
after age 65, every six to 12 months

Those at higher risk include people of African descent, Currently, regular eye exams are the
people with diabetes, and people with a family history of best form of prevention against
glaucoma. You are at increased risk if you have a parent significant glaucoma damage.
or brother or sister with glaucoma
 UPDATE INFORMATION

The research found that when marijuana is

smoked or when a form of its active ingredient
is taken as a pill or by injection, it does lower
IOP. However, it only lowers IOP for a short
period of timeabout three or four hours.

AND

Because glaucoma needs to be treated 24 hours

a day, you would need to smoke marijuana six
to eight times a day around the clock to receive
the benefit of a consistently lowered IOP.

You would not be able to function at

The American Academy of Ophthalmology reiterated the peak of your mental ability
its position that it does not recommend marijuana
or other cannabis products for the treatment of
glaucoma.
REFERENCES

http://www.glaucoma.org/glaucoma/diagnostic-tests.php

https://medlineplus.gov/glaucoma.html

https://www.webmd.com/eye-health/glaucoma-eyes#1

https://www.aao.org/eye-health/tips-prevention/medical-marijuana-glaucoma-treament

https://www.brightfocus.org/glaucoma/treatment-and-drugs

http://nuasupplements.com/range-products/nuadha-vision/glaucoma/?lang=en

http://www.glaucoma.org/gleams/what-can-i-do-to-prevent-glaucoma.php