This was the second World Glaucoma Day. This is a joint global initiative of the World Glaucoma Association (WGA) and the World Glaucoma Patient Association (WGPA) to raise awareness of glaucoma, what it does to sight and how it might affect you.

Glaucoma is a progressive disease causing irreversible visual loss, usually without warning until relatively advanced. 50% of affected people in the developed world and 90% in the developing countries do not know they have glaucoma.

The main risk factors to develop glaucoma are a positive family history of glaucoma, myopia (short sightedness), people of African decent, women with migraine and vasospasm (cold hands and feet), diabetes.Regular eye checks are necessary to permit earlier detection and avoidance of visual disability.

 

FEEDBACK ON WGD:

 

CAPE TOWN: 

Managed by Dr Ellen Ancker : 021 - 426 2200

 

WORLD GLAUCOMA DAY AWARENESS

 

 

TAKING HISTORY AND MAKING NOTES

 

MANAGING THE OPTIC NERVE

 

TAKING IOP

 

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