Research Paper On Glaucoma

Glaucoma is a disease that causes blindness in the eye and it also damages the optic nerve, which is what helps the eye keep its good vision. The optic nerve comes from the sensory fibers and it is what conducts impulses from the retina to the brain. Elderly people are more likely to develop glaucoma when they’re around the age 60 but glaucoma can also develop on young adults, or an infant could just be born with it. 1 out of 10,000 babies are born with glaucoma, which may not seem like a many, but if the number of babies born each day is 353,000 then about 35 babies get glaucoma each day. If someone has an older family member that used to have glaucoma in their lifetime then that person with glaucoma could have spread glaucoma to the family which puts the offspring at risk of glaucoma. Something that could cause glaucoma is usually the buildup of pressure put in the eye but since …show more content…
The signs and symptoms of glaucoma are usually how people will find that they are developing glaucoma because the eye isn’t checked often. If a doctor does check the eye for glaucoma they will make the patient take drops in their eye so the optic nerve is visible for the doctor and the doctor can determine if its glaucoma with the color and the shape of the optic nerve (Test Name-Ophthalmoscopy). The doctor would also have to make the patient take a visual field test (Test Name-Perimetry)and they would also have to check out the inner eye pressure(Test Name-Tonometry). If the doctor notices that the cornea is out of place with the iris then that would be another way to diagnosis it(Test Name-Gonioscopy) or if the cornea is thicker than usual(Test Name-Pachymetry). The reason doctors do all these test is because they cannot just determine you have glaucoma with one test so they do different kinds of things to make sure that you have glaucoma and it isn’t just a