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See the future clearly, todayA survey indicates that about 1.1 to 1.4 million Nigerians suffer from glaucoma, but half don’t know it. The leading risk factors in Glaucoma are heredity and being of black African ancestry, so with Nigeria being the largest black nation on earth it implies the she has the largest concentration of people at risk of having Glaucoma in the world. Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness in the world, so it’s important to see an eye doctor regularly and get screened for glaucoma progression.
It’s important that everyone is screened for glaucoma, but people who are at higher risk should be especially diligent. Characteristics that put you at higher risk for glaucoma include:
Patients of African ancestry are also at an increased risk of developing glaucoma and are more likely to lose their vision to it.
With open-angle glaucoma, you may not notice any symptoms at all. You may have slight vision loss, but usually, your stronger eye makes up for it, so you don’t notice much of a change.
In cases of closed-angle glaucoma, you may either have no symptoms or experience severe symptoms, such as:
Early diagnosis and treatment is the key to preserving visual function for your lifetime. At Soteria Eye Clinic, the doctors use advanced diagnostic equipment to identify glaucoma and track its progression. If you seem to be at risk, the doctors closely monitor your symptoms until glaucoma progresses.
As your glaucoma progresses, the team at Soteria Eye Clinic manages the condition with eye drops to lower the intraocular pressure or IOP. If the IOP is difficult to control with medication, the doctors may treat glaucoma with low-level light therapy or recommend surgical options to subsequently reducing the pressure that’s so dangerous to your vision.