ARISE NEWSLETTER ISSUE 10 | JANUARY 2018
NATIONAL GLAUCOMA AWARENESS MONTH
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GLAUCOMA? TYPES OF GLAUCOMA RISK FACTORS RAISING AWARENESS NURSING MANAGEMENT WHAT IS
With the start of New Year, many people have made their own list of New Year’s resolution so they can start the year off right. The list includes exercise more, eat healthy, quit vices like smoking and drinking, read more books, and the list goes on... As an advocate for change, we nurses can raise awareness and help our clients understand more about glaucoma, a sight- stealing disease. This "sneak thief of sight" is referred as such since one can have an irreversible loss of vision even without any obvious symptoms during the early course of the disease. “Glaucoma can damage your vision so gradually you may not notice any loss of vision until the disease is at an advanced stage,” said Dr. Jeff Taylor, Medical Director to YourSightMatters.com. “Early diagnosis and treatment can minimize or prevent optic nerve damage and limit glaucoma-related vision loss. We want to get patients in to see an ophthalmologist– the earlier the better.” The World Health Organization estimates that about 4.5 million people around the world are going blind due to glaucoma.
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