Eye care - Do you care?
☺Veena, a 10-year-old girl presents with the complaint of 1-year-old `anjanhaari’. She has a chalazion on her right lower lid that needs surgical removal. Her mother pleads for some medicine instead of surgery. “Chalazion is a pea-like firm mass of a meibomian gland following the obstruction of its duct that needs to be excised. The eye is bandaged for a few hours and the wound gets resolved”, explains Dr. Maneesh Kumar.
☺Shakura, 45, is a tailor having trouble in threading the needle. He suffers from presbyopia that needs to be corrected with near vision glasses. He, too, asks for some medicine instead of spectacles. Presbyopia is a problem of advancing age when near vision goes down gradually necessitating the extension of arms to take away the near vision task to be seen clearly. The condition can be managed successfully with spectacles to be used while doing near vision task.
☺Shanti, the 50-year-old housewife, comes with the complaint of headache while doing near work. Her distant vision (with myopic astigmatic glasses) is normal and she reads N6 without glasses. Several years ago she had undergone (Radial keratotomy) refractive surgery and her vision (with spectacles) was normal for distance as well as near. After the setting in of presbyopia, she needs a different prescription for near vision glasses, and more so because of her high astigmatic condition. And, “as per her age group she needs the inside of her eye (fundus) checked-up too”, asserts Dr. Charu Gupta.
☺A lady asks how much will the spectacles cost? On knowing the cost of the lenses and the frame, she asks, “Can I use my old frame?” “Why not?” the optometrist replies. But the point is: when one spends so much on new clothes, footwear, cosmetics etc., why not on a spectacle frame…that can truly enhance one’s personality, one’s looks!
These are the types of cases that eye doctors come in contact with frequently. To ensure proper eye care, make it a point to schedule an appointment for eye examination of every member of the family once a year. more
☺Shakura, 45, is a tailor having trouble in threading the needle. He suffers from presbyopia that needs to be corrected with near vision glasses. He, too, asks for some medicine instead of spectacles. Presbyopia is a problem of advancing age when near vision goes down gradually necessitating the extension of arms to take away the near vision task to be seen clearly. The condition can be managed successfully with spectacles to be used while doing near vision task.
☺Shanti, the 50-year-old housewife, comes with the complaint of headache while doing near work. Her distant vision (with myopic astigmatic glasses) is normal and she reads N6 without glasses. Several years ago she had undergone (Radial keratotomy) refractive surgery and her vision (with spectacles) was normal for distance as well as near. After the setting in of presbyopia, she needs a different prescription for near vision glasses, and more so because of her high astigmatic condition. And, “as per her age group she needs the inside of her eye (fundus) checked-up too”, asserts Dr. Charu Gupta.
☺A lady asks how much will the spectacles cost? On knowing the cost of the lenses and the frame, she asks, “Can I use my old frame?” “Why not?” the optometrist replies. But the point is: when one spends so much on new clothes, footwear, cosmetics etc., why not on a spectacle frame…that can truly enhance one’s personality, one’s looks!
These are the types of cases that eye doctors come in contact with frequently. To ensure proper eye care, make it a point to schedule an appointment for eye examination of every member of the family once a year. more
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Let me confine, as far as possible, to primary eye care issues as seen in the modern system of medicine...even though everybody is free to make use of any other approach prescibed in ayurveda or homoeopathy. more
Sep 16
Dr. Narendra Kumar, while I agree with you on the necessity of contacting an eye specialist to identify the problem, several problems related to eyes can be cured by Homeopathic medical treatment. Diseases like conjunctivitis, double sighted vision, problems related to watering of eyes, itching of the eyes, stys on the eyelids, and a host of other problems are all very neatly handled by Homeopathic medicines. That is the reason, in my earlier post, I was requesting you to give a compilation of simple cures from various systems of medicine for the use of common man. For information of readers, my mother aged 84 recently developed double vision ( every object started appearing as two) and she was completely cured in just less than a couple of weeks by homeopathic medicine. more
Sep 16
As I have said earlier, as eye care professionals, we neither encourage nor discourage our patients to try out any other system of medicine or treatment approach towards errors of refraction...but I also would like to stress on one point: "Since glaucoma is a sneak thief of vision, wherein vision lost once cannot be re-gained by any means, one should avoid playing with his/her eyes with scientifically unproven methods". And, if you believe in attaining normal vision without glasses, surgery or contact lenses, you will be doing a yeoman service to the nation where there are scores of persons with weak sight and eye diseases...why not contact the vibrant new Government and encourage it to start a national service on the lines that can, as you say, take care of errors of refraction and other diseases in a much simpler way! more
Sep 16
Plaese comment on this video 20/20 vision without any glasses/surgery/contact lenses http://restore-my-vision-now.com/?hop=altdaily&lead=0 more
Sep 16
