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Preservative-Free Eye Drop for Glaucoma
Prostaglandin analogues like Latanoprost, Tavaprost and Bimatoprost are the most commonly prescribed glaucoma drugs available in the market today. They are well-known for their potency and minimal systemic side-effects compared to their eye medicine forerunners. But because of their required long term use, patients may suffer from the irritating side-effects of their accompanying preservative Benzalkonium Chloride (BAK). Researchers...
Gingko Biloba: More Than Meets The Eye
Gingko is reputed to improve thinking, delay Alzheimer’s disease, preserve memory, and reverse memory loss. How about glaucoma? Proponents of gingko claim that the secret lies to its active ingredients: flavanoids and terpenoids. How it works The ginkgo plant, known for its distinctly shaped “duck feet” leaves, has more than 40 constituents, with two in particular promoting blood flow. Flavanoids keep cells healthy by combating...
Common Eye Test Could Miss Vision Loss from Glaucoma
Visual acuity, using a Snellen chart is a simple and routine eye evaluation usually performed in ophthalmologists’ and optometrists’ offices. It is used to estimate a person’s degree of visual disability. In order to perform this test a person is generally asked to sit or stand a standard distance of 20 feet (or 6 meters) from a standardized screen. She is then asked to identify a set of letters in decreasing order of size. To put it...
Link Between Erectile Dysfunction & Glaucoma?
A recent study published in the journal Ophthalmology (January 2012) revealed that men diagnosed with erectile dysfunction are three times more likely to suffer from open angle glaucoma. The study was conducted among 4605 men by researchers in the Division of Urology at the Far Eastern Memorial Hospital of Taiwan. The researchers theorize that a similar molecular abnormality occurs in erectile dysfunction and glaucoma. Endothelium...
