Your Questions About Treatment Macular Degeneration
Carol asks…
Natural treatments for macular degeneration ? Do they help ?
My father is suffering from macular degeneration (AMD) and he’s been told that there are no effective cure to treat the problem. However, a friend of mine says that there are some natural treatments to help people with AMD. What are they ? What kind of treatments does he have to follow ?
admin answers:
Dry macular degeneration is usually found in aging people. Macular degeneration is developed when part of the retina deteriorates. The retina is the interior layer of the eye consisting of the receptors and nerves that receive and transmit light signals from the eye into the optic nerve, then to the brain. There is as yet no effective cure for age-related macular degeneration, but there are alternative treatments for macular degeneration that can delay its progression or even improve vision.
A study shows that risk factors of macular degeneration are excessive weight, lack of exercises, harmful drugs effects, high blood pressure, diabetes and heredity.
Treating macular degeneration with healthy nutrition and exercises :
Medical experts suggest that nutrients that contain antioxidant such as vitamin C (ascorbic acid), vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol), carotenoids, selenium and zink can neutralize the damage of the cells caused by free radicals.
It is found that people who choose active lifestyle may less likely to suffer this eye problem comparing to those who are inactive. Many people admit that special therapeutic eye exercises have helped their vision in improving. Therapeutic eye exercises are very beneficial in slowing the progress of macular degeneration. Those eye exercises are designed to strengthen the eye muscles and train the vision center of the brain.
The eye trainings include covering one eye with one hand and looking at different objects continuously instead of staring at just one object. Or you can focus on pencil holding it at arm’s length. Begin to move your hand, holding the pencil as if you are conducting it. Slowly move the object in figure 8s, swirls and other shapes. Always keep your eyes focused on the object’s detail. Move the pencil closer to you and further away. Remember to blink frequently, relax and breathe regularly.
Although there is no cure, there are effective optional treatments for macular degeneration to prevent severe vision loss, slow the progression or improve the problems considerably
Ruth asks…
is there a treatment for macular degeneration?(an eye deseas)?
admin answers:
At present, the only widely accepted intervention for age-related maculopathy is the use of high-dose antioxidants. However, this treatment only slows progression in some patients and does not reverse damage already present. After age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) becomes exudative (wet, as one of the other people wrote), laser photocoagulation, photodynamic therapy (PDT) with verteporfin, and therapy with intravitreal pegaptanib sodium are the standard treatments to control choroidal neovascularization (a complication of ARMD).
Please note: the differance between dry and wet ARMD is that wet ARMD has progressed to such a degree that the choriod (layer of the eye) grows new blood vessels (neovascularization).
Sharon asks…
Please support Grandad by signing petition to allow macular degeneration sufferers Avastin treatment on NHS?
My grandad has been diagnosed with wet macular degeneration and has been told he will go blind unless he has injections of avastin.
However, the NHS have refused to pay for his treatment. The drug costs £700 per injection and he will need at least nine to prevent total blindness.
Whilst we are fortunate enough to have a big family willing to chip in and fund his treatment my concern is all the others out there who need this drug but don’t have the means to pay for it.
AMD can lead to blindness in as little as three months, but it can be reversed with prompt treatment.
VIEW AND SIGN PETITION AT –
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Avastin/
Please dont forget to click on the confirmation link email in your email to register your vote – and many many thanks xx MANY VOICES TALK LOUD
admin answers:
I hope you have received many signatures. Well wishes for your Grandfather xx
David asks…
Any treatment is there for Macular degeneration at the age of 30+?
admin answers:
Macular degeneration can’t be cured but you can prevent it from getting worse.
Mandy asks…
Macular Degeneration treatments?
A friend of mine just turned 21 and a year ago was diagnosed with a special case of Macular Degeneration.
It was recently he told me about a surgery that he was a good candidate for and said that it has a 60% of prolonging the degeneration of his eyesight (without it, he was told he would be blind in a year).
I am simply requesting more information about the treatment and/or if there is even such a treatment…
Please tell me what you think and thank you 
admin answers:
The best bet is to see another doctor for another professional opinion
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