Glaucoma: treatment with folk remedies

Along with conservative and official methods of treatment, there are alternative or folk ways, which aim to normalize the internal functions of a person and control processes inside organs view.

The combination of traditional medicine with those recommendations, and the use of medicines, which the doctor appointed, gives good results in most cases.So the recovery will only accelerate and the intraocular pressure that provokes the development of this serious disease will be normalized.

Definition of disease

Glaucoma is caused by the fact that normal fluid circulation is disturbed inside the eye, this causes an increase in intraocular pressure.

The disease can be both congenital and acquired. What are the varieties of the disease, if it arose as a result of the life of a person, and was not inherited:

• Primary glaucoma- open-angle, closed-angle and mixed type of disease.
• Secondary glaucomais divided into traumatic, inflammatory, vascular, postoperative and phacogenic types of the disease.

Among the main causes of the onset of the disease are many risk groups, the most common of them:

• The most numerous group of people, which includes all persons who have reached the age of forty. Here there are age-related changes, often there are diseases of the thyroid gland or there are failures on the hormonal level, which inevitably leads to an increase in blood pressure and changes in the visual organs associated with aging organism.
• Inflammatory processes in an acute form, such as: believe, keratitis, cataract.
• The formation of a benign and malignant character, as well as damage to the mechanical properties.
• Such diseases as obesity, diabetes mellitus of both types, atherosclerosis.
• Use in large doses of some medicines and the duration of their use.
• Predisposition at the genetic level.

When the first symptoms of glaucoma usually there are signs that can not be ignored, but the initial period of the disease is hidden and difficult to diagnose.

What you should know in time to suspect the development of glaucoma:

• The field of view narrowed noticeably - at the third stage more than 15 degrees of the review is lost.
• The image becomes fuzzy and blurry.
• Pain is felt in the eye, as well as in the temporal part or ear.
• Rainbow circles appear when the eyes stop at the light sources.
• Often during seizures, there is nausea and even vomiting.

Folk remedies

Before treating yourself with various non-traditional methods, you should visit a doctor and get a detailed consultation.The whole process of treatment should not be without attention from the specialist. For monitoring purposes, it is necessary to periodically measure eye pressure. If negative processes are observed and the level of pressure increases, it may be necessary to change therapy or apply appropriate medication.

Tonometry for determination of intraocular pressure

Among the numerous proposals "from the people there are several main recipes: drops for the eyes, lotions, ointments and many other ways.All substances that are useful to the eye, no matter how they get inside, have a beneficial effect on lymph and blood composition, purify the plasma from cells that have already disintegrated and clog up the structure of the blood corpuscles.

Traditional medicine will not help cure the disease, but only contribute to the relief of symptoms. You need to use the funds in combination with drops from glaucoma and under the supervision of your doctor. In the event that an iridotomy was performed, people's means should be abandoned.

Drops

• A recipe for eye drops from honey, dandelion and onion juice. All ingredients are taken in equal parts. Ready mixture is infused for at least four hours. Treatment should be carried out a few drops in the affected eye to 4-5 times a day. Drops can not be stored for long, so they have to be done every time again.

• Take the tincture of dill, which can be purchased at the pharmacy, and honey in the same proportions. Use it for instillation into the sore eyes throughout the day, at regular intervals.
• You can prepare the following composition for eye drops: on a teaspoon of aloe and honey juice mixed with 100 g of distilled or boiled water. Such drops should be used at night, but before the procedure, rinse the eyes with decoction of anise leaves (st.lozhka for half a liter of water).

Ointments

Grind the leaves of plants: lily of the valley forest, nettle. Pour a small amount of water and insist the night. Then add a teaspoon of baking soda, stir until smooth.This herbal mass should be laid out for centuries in the morning and in the evening for 10 days.Then take breaks and continue the treatment.

Honey with onions in the form of gruel is also useful for ointment lotions for eyelids and the use of the mixture inside. This will help to speed up the blood flow and enrich the eyes and eyelids.

Compresses

As compresses used a large number of different recipes:

• Aloe is a very useful plant for the eyes. They prepare a mixture for it and use it as an ointment, applying it with gauze or a napkin on the eyes. You should take the leaves of the plant, chop them and pour steep boiling water. Insist for three hours, then strain and use as an ointment three times a day.
• Treatment of raw potatoes and apple cider vinegar. Scrub the potatoes and dilute with a small amount of vinegar so that the result is not too thick. Put this remedy on the eyelids and the area near the eyes. Hold at least half an hour.
• Make infusion of wild rose hips. After wetting a napkin in a liquid, put on closed eyes. Do this several times a day. Pour the broth for compresses into a separate container, and drink the rest of the tea instead.
• You can make lotions from a golden mustache, fill it with boiling water and insist for several hours.

Teas and decoctions

Useful plants for the eyes very much.In folk medicine, a lot of medicinal plant crops are used: a string, nettle, field horsetail, spores, blueberry, cowberry, plantain, dog rose, birch leaves.All these plants are useful to use as teas and decoctions. The same broths are good as lotions and compresses. They have a lot of substances useful for the eyes, helping to stop the disease in the first stage of development.

Eat herbal medicinal courses for 10 days with interruptions for 10-14 days.

Vitaminotherapy

The use of vitamins is beneficial at any time and at any age, especially if it concerns eye diseases.Especially, it becomes important during the off-season, when the eye organs need support. Blueberries, cranberries, raspberries or strawberries can help strengthen the body and enhance immunity. If there is no possibility of eating fruits and vegetables (for example, not seasonally), then they can be replaced with their synthesized vitamin complexes.

When buying vitamins, you need to pay attention to certification. If the product is of high quality, the instructions or in the package, which are given to pharmacists, will indicate the necessary quality certificates, confirmed by clinical studies.

Efficiency of using folk remedies

Due to folk remedies, the body maintains the necessary elements and minerals, but this does not guarantee the restoration of the visual organ in glaucoma.This disease is characterized by the combined concept of a group of diseases that provoke a violation of the circulation of the fluid, most of which have not been clinically examined.Therefore, an important point in the application of traditional medicine is the approval of this method of additional treatment by a doctor.

The above methods will be effective only in the early stages of the disease, when the intraocular pressure is in relative norm - from 22 to 26 mm Hg. according to Maklakov.After applying only fortifying recipes to maintain the whole body.

Drops and ointments cooked by hand, are discussed with the doctor, tk. some components can inhibit the active substances of medication.

Basic Therapy

The main objectives of drugs for glaucoma: decreased TGT, improved metabolism in structures eye tissues, normalization of oxygen and nutrient supply of all parts of the optic nerve and other.

Ordinary therapy includes means of influence of the following order:

• For outflow of VGT, myotics, sympathomimetics, prostaglandins are prescribed.
• VGZ inhibitors: Betaxolone, Betoptik, Timolol, Proxodolol.

Betoptik, 5% used in the treatment of glaucoma

• For the combined action, there are preparations: Fotil, Kosopt, Normoglaukon.

Depending on the form of the disease, other means of a more powerful effect may be used, which are adopted according to special schemes.

Eye drops

Among the drops for the eyes of antiglaucoma, there are also several groups that differ in the mechanism of hypotensive action:

• Timolol, Trusopt, Betoptik are drugs that help to reduce the level of production of intraocular fluid.
• Pilocarpine, Xalatan, Travatan - drops to improve the outflow of the VGZ.

Pilocarpine reduces the pressure inside the eye

• Fotin, Proksofilin - a means of combined properties and actions.

During the use of eye drops or other medications, a large load of a physical or mental nature is contra-indicated.Very useful are fresh fruits and berries, long walks. Smoking and the use of alcohol-containing beverages are excluded. You can not watch TV for a long time or sit at the computer monitor.

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conclusions

Glaucoma is a serious visual pathology that leads to blindness due to optic nerve atrophy.Age category of people - from 60 years and older, but to date the positive dynamics of the disease development in the younger generation is already being developed. Therefore, do not ignore regular trips to the ophthalmologist. Know, most eye diseases do not have symptoms until the processes are irreversible.