What is diabetic retinopathy?
Diabetic retinopathy, or glucose reticulum, is a microvascular complication of diabetes.
Second, what are the types? What are the symptoms?
The sugar web is divided into background retinopathy and proliferative retinopathy.
Background retinopathy occurs in the early stages, when vision is not significantly affected, you may have no symptoms, or you may just feel slightly blurry vision, or dark shadows flying or fluttering in front of your eyes. At this time to do eye examination, the retina will have different degrees of bleeding, exudation, edema, hemangioma.
As the disease progresses or blood sugar is poorly controlled, you may experience significant loss of vision, dark shadows in front of your eyes, dark spots in the center of your visual field, decreased central vision, and deformities in your vision. This stage has progressed to proliferative retinopathy, where an eye exam reveals extensive bleeding and neovascularization. If it is not timely and effective treatment, it will seriously affect vision and even blindness.
Three, how to treat?
1, strict control of blood sugar, blood pressure, lipid reduction:
Keep blood sugar at or near normal levels and blood pressure at normal levels. Below 140/90 MMHG. Controlling blood sugar is the most important part of preventing and treating sugar network disease. Strict blood sugar control can not only greatly delay the occurrence of sugar network disease, but also delay the development of sugar network disease. It should be emphasized here that a large fluctuation of blood sugar is even more damaging to the retina than a certain degree of blood sugar increase, so you must stabilize your blood sugar near normal levels.
2. Use drugs to improve retinal circulation:
Diabetic retinopathy is caused by microvascular disease in retinal microcirculation with microthrombus formation, so it is necessary to use drugs to improve microcirculation.
3, laser photocoagulation treatment:
This is an outpatient treatment that will not restore your vision back to normal, but will do as much as possible to protect your vision from getting worse. After laser treatment, you will find that your vision will be worse in the short term than before, because the laser stimulation of the retina has caused more severe edema than before treatment. Oral drugs to improve retinal circulation can reduce retinal edema and improve retinal blood vessel leakage.
4. Vitrectomy.
Fourth, you also need to pay attention to:
1. Properly control diet and strengthen exercise.
2, regular eye examination You should have an eye exam at least once a year, or at least every three months if you have been diagnosed with proliferative retinopathy.
3, after diagnosis, follow the doctor\'s advice to adhere to long-term comprehensive treatment.