Diabetic Eye Disease

Why Diabetic Eye Care is Important

Your overall wellness is connected to your vision. All forms of diabetic eye disease can cause severe or permanent vision loss and blindness. However, early detection and treatment of diabetic eye disease can dramatically decrease your chances of experiencing vision loss. Additionally, controlling your diabetes and taking proper care of your health can prevent future vision loss. Ocular coherence technology allows us to assess how healthy your retina is.

Our doctors are able to detect the earliest signs of diabetic eye disease during your medical eye health evaluation. Since some forms of diabetic eye diseases are asymptomatic before you experience actual vision loss, including diabetic medical eye health evaluations in your wellness routine is essential.

What Causes Diabetic Eye Disease?

Your retinas are made up of tiny blood vessels, and sustained high blood sugar from diabetes can damage the blood vessels in your retina. The disruption of these blood vessels causes many conditions that contribute to vision loss and blindness.

Diabetic Eye Disease Treatment

Although some vision loss from diabetic eye disease is permanent, early treatment reduces the risk of blindness by 95%. Additionally, controlling your diabetes is an excellent way to slow the progression of diabetic retinopathy.

We treat diabetic macular edema with a variety of treatments, including laser surgery and corticosteroids. Early detection is the best way to protect your vision. If you haven’t scheduled your diabetic eye care exam yet, don’t wait any longer.

How to Prevent Diabetic Eye Disease

At EyeXcel, we firmly believe that prevention is the best form of treatment. Since diabetic retinopathy is associated with sustained high blood sugar, maintaining and controlling your blood sugar is essential in preventing diabetic eye disease. Additionally, tending to your overall wellness and maintaining your blood pressure, quitting smoking, and getting vision examinations will go a long way in protecting your vision for as long as possible. Our doctors will communicate with your physicians and referring doctors to ensure a “team approach” to ensuring your diabetes does not complicate your way of life.

Nutrition plays a large role in maintaining healthy eyes. Our optometrists offer valuable guidance on optimizing retinal health through nutrition. If you want to know more about how nutrition can bolster your retinal health be sure to ask at your next medical eye examination.