Question

Discuss the many forms of glaucoma. Do most people have glaucoma in one eye or both eyes? Why?

Answer 1

Ans) Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases that can cause vision loss and blindness by damaging a nerve in the back of your eye called the optic nerve.  

The symptoms can start so slowly that you may not notice them. The only way to find out if you have glaucoma is to get a comprehensive dilated eye exam.  

There’s no cure for glaucoma, but early treatment can often stop the damage and protect your vision.  

Types of glaucoma:
- There are many different types of glaucoma, but the most common type in the United States is called open-angle glaucoma — that’s what most people mean when they talk about glaucoma. Other types of glaucoma are less common, like angle-closure glaucoma and congenital glaucoma.

Symptoms of glaucoma:

- At first, glaucoma doesn’t usually have any symptoms. That’s why half of people with glaucoma don’t even know they have it.  

Over time, you may slowly lose vision, usually starting with your side (peripheral) vision — especially the part of your vision that’s closest to your nose. Because it happens so slowly, many people can’t tell that their vision is changing, especially at first.

But as the disease gets worse, you may start to notice that you can’t see things off to the side anymore. Without treatment, glaucoma can eventually cause blindness.

• Anyone can get glaucoma, but some people are at higher risk. You’re at higher risk if you:

• Are over age 60

• Are African American or Hispanic/Latino and over age 40

• Have a family history of glaucoma

• Talk with your doctor about your risk for glaucoma, and ask how often you need to get checked.  

Glaucoma can happen in one eye or both eyes

Some people with high eye pressure don’t get glaucoma — and there’s a type of glaucoma that happens in people with normal eye pressure

The amount of eye pressure that’s normal varies by person — what’s normal for one person could be high for another.