The early symptoms of glaucoma are definitely a topic of great concern to those patients who are afraid of glaucoma. However, the cause of glaucoma is the most important factor in causing glaucoma. Understanding what causes glaucoma Early symptoms are also beneficial to later treatment.

Early symptoms of glaucoma

1. Increased intraocular pressure:

Measured with Shoetz tonometer, the normal intraocular pressure range is 10-21 mm When the intraocular pressure rises to 25-40 mmHg, touching the eyeball with your fingers will feel like a fully inflated ball, which is relatively hard. The early symptoms of glaucoma are as follows: when the mercury level rises to 40-70 mmHg, and then touched with a finger, the eyeball becomes as hard as a stone. This is a more obvious sign of the cause of glaucoma.

2. Nausea and vomiting:

Increased intraocular pressure can also reflexively cause excitement of the vagus nerve and vomiting nerve center. Severe nausea and vomiting, an early symptom of glaucoma, is also a cause of glaucoma. cause.

3. Rainbow vision:

The cause of glaucoma is due to elevated intraocular pressure and obstruction of body fluid circulation in the eye, causing corneal edema and refractive changes. At this time, when looking at sunlight, especially when looking at lights, The outer ring is orange-red, the inner ring is purple-blue, and there is a green ring in the middle. When the intraocular pressure returns to normal, the colorful ring disappears. This phenomenon is called rainbow vision in medicine. If it is physiological or cataractous iris, there will be no symptoms of headache and increased intraocular pressure.

4. Headache and eye swelling:

The cause of glaucoma is that the intraocular pressure rises sharply and the trigeminal nerve endings are stimulated, which reflexively causes pain in the trigeminal nerve distribution area. Patients often feel Had migraines and sore eyes.

5. Narrowing of the visual field and vision loss:

The early symptoms of glaucoma are due to excessive intraocular pressure and damage to the optic nerve. In the early stages, vision loss and foggy vision often occur at night. Secondly, Disappeared in the morning.

If symptoms similar to the above occur, you should go to the hospital for examination in time. Quanzhou New Vision Eye Hospital is located in Minqiao Building, Tianan North Road, Quanzhou City, next to Fengze Plaza, with a construction area of ??nearly 6,000 square meters. The hospital is being built in accordance with the requirements of a tertiary-level specialized hospital. It will integrate clinical, scientific research and teaching, and carry out excimer laser treatment for myopia, phacoemulsification treatment for cataracts, glaucoma, pediatric amblyopia, strabismus, vitreous and retinopathy, and fundus diseases. , corneal disease, orbital disease, ophthalmic plastic surgery and medical optometry and glasses and other diagnosis and treatment items.

Glaucoma treatment method—trabeculectomy

Trabeculectomy is a commonly used surgery to fight glaucoma. If you can seek medical treatment in time after the onset of glaucoma, you can control the intraocular pressure as soon as possible and control the risk of glaucoma. If the symptoms are early, the surgical effect is generally ideal. If not treated in time, intraocular pressure cannot be controlled, conjunctival congestion occurs, and corticosteroids and non-steroidal drugs are not used before surgery, the incidence of postoperative complications is higher. For patients in the acute attack stage, the intraocular pressure rises sharply, and despite the application of various anti-glaucoma drugs, the intraocular pressure cannot be controlled. If surgical treatment is not adopted in this situation, it will lead to severe optic nerve damage and irreversible visual function decline. Or even completely blind.

When the intraocular pressure is higher than 40mmhg, it not only compresses the optic nerve, but also causes damage to the eye tissue. Such a high intraocular pressure level can also lead to acute anterior ischemic optic neuropathy. The early symptoms of glaucoma are Predisposition to retinal vein thrombosis and even retinal artery thrombosis. The author believes that adequate antihypertensive drug treatment for 72 hours still cannot effectively control intraocular pressure, so trabeculectomy should be performed immediately to save and protect visual function. The longer the intraocular pressure lasts, the greater the risk of surgery, the more intraoperative and postoperative complications, and the worse the surgical effect. Clarifying the causes of early postoperative complications and correct treatment methods can achieve the purpose of preventing and treating postoperative complications, thereby improving the success rate of surgery.

I believe everyone is familiar with the early symptoms of glaucoma. As long as glaucoma patients are fully aware of the causes of glaucoma and receive symptomatic treatment, they can achieve good results. Moreover, trabecular surgery has already It has made great breakthroughs in clinical treatment and can also achieve very ideal results in treatment. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the experts of our hospital at any time.