How Ignorance Leads To Incurable Eye Disease

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How Ignorance Leads To Incurable Eye Diseases

When 24-year old Jame realized his eyesight was getting weaker, he blamed his MNC job for it. He told himself that sitting in front of his laptop for 9 hours a day continuously was the reason this was happening, and got himself anti glare glasses to prevent any further damage. While his girlfriend thought that the glasses looked cool, his mother was concerned. She told him that low vision at 24 years is not a good thing and advised him to visit the ophthalmologist. But he assured her that it was just because of the computer and nothing else, and let the matter slip.

A few months later he noticed that he was not able to read the fine print of the newspaper properly. This disturbed him, and he

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