Diseases

Hypermetropia in children - what is it?

In modern times, children often encounter various visual abnormalities. And in many cases, such a disease as hypermetropia, which requires immediate correction, is manifested. This disease is especially noticeable at the age of 5-7 years, when the baby begins to study disciplines and reading. This is understandable, but here's how to cure hyperopia in children, read in this article. Content 1What it is? 2Causes 3Symptoms 4Diagnostics 5Treatment 5.1Complications 5.2Prevention 6Vid...

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Twilight vision: features

Twilight vision (night blindness) is a mechanism of visual perception, which works at a low level of illumination of the surrounding space.In addition to the term "gloomy vision the concept of mesopic vision (derived from the ancient Greek words "average view") can also be used. In this case, the term "twilight" refers to the degree of illumination in the range from the period when the sun has gone already a few degrees beyond the horizon to the amount of light that the moon creates in the c...

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Duchenne muscular dystrophy: symptoms and treatment

Duchenne's muscular dystrophy is a genetic disorder associated with a disorder in the structure of the muscle fibers. Muscle fibers in this disease, in the end, break up, and the ability to move is lost. Duchenne's muscular dystrophy is transmitted adherent to the sex, men are ill. It manifests itself already in childhood. In addition to muscle disorders, the disease leads to skeletal deformities, can be accompanied by respiratory and heart failure, mental and endocrine disorders. A radical...

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Hypermetropia: ICD code 10 and general characteristics

Ophthalmic diseases can lead to serious consequences. It is important to pay attention to any changes associated with the eyes. There are several pathologies in which refraction is disturbed: one of these is hypermetropia. Surely everyone has heard the word "farsightedness this is hypermetropia. Hypermetropia code for ICD 10: H52. Content 1Definition of disease 2Causes 3Symptoms 4Possible complications 5Diagnostics 6Treatment 6.1Conservative method 6.2Medication 6.3Surgically 6.4...

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Treatment of retinal angiopathy in children

Our organ of vision has an inner membrane called the retina. It is she who lays the eyeball from within. The retina is covered with a mesh of capillaries, the smallest arteries, veins. All this blood has a name in Latin - "angio". Well, pathology ("pathos") is a disease. Angiopathy of the retina in the child does not arise by itself. It is a complication of other diseases. But if you treat the underlying disease-the root cause and do not pay attention to the pathology that emerged on its bac...

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Symptoms of glaucoma: how to determine in time?

Glaucoma is a dangerous eye disease caused by a chronic outflow of intraocular fluid.This leads to attacks of increased intraocular pressure. Feeling of "heaviness" and pain in the eyes, redness and a feeling of dryness, a weak pain in the eyeballs - these are all symptoms of a glaucoma attack. The pupils acquire a characteristic greenish hue. This causes the name of the disease, because "glaucoma" in translation from Greek means "green water". What is this disease and whether it is possible...

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Fuchs syndrome - causes, effects and treatment

Vision is a critical feeling for a person, because any problems with the eyes always bring to the person a serious discomfort. Especially distinguished are various inflammatory processes, which can lead to serious problems with the eyes, and in the worst case, even to deprivation of vision. An example of an inflammatory problem that develops against the background of another, uveitis, is the so-called Fuchs syndrome. Let us consider in more detail what it is and what to do if the problem has...

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What is orbital hypertelorism?

Hypertelorism is a congenital pathology, which consists in an abnormally large distance between paired organs. Often there is visual or ocular hypertelorism - in which the distance between the bone structures of the orbit is significantly increased in comparison with the norm. Often, the anomaly is not a separate disease, but is part of some genetic pathologies, for example, hypertelorism is often found in Edwards syndrome, neurofibromatosis. Content 1Definition of disease 2Causes 3Symp...

  • 01-Aug-2018
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Is it possible to get rid of hernias under the eyes without surgery

Our appearance is our calling card. You get enough sleep, do not eat salty, are alien to various excesses, but every morning in the mirror you are greeted by a little aesthetic bags under your eyes? Maybe it's not swelling, but a hernia. Content 1Causes 2Methods of conservative treatment 2.1Cosmetic and hardware methods of conservative treatment 2.2Home recipes: compresses and lotions 3Prevention 4Video 5conclusions Causes The skin of the eyelids is thin and delicate. With age, ...

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Macular degeneration: symptoms and treatment

Eye pathologies affect both the young population of the planet and older people.However, in the latter group, the frequency of diseases is often associated with age-related changes and affects the most important structures of organs and systems. As for eye diseases, pathological processes most often develop in the retina and vascular system.Such serious diseases as glaucoma, degeneration and retinal detachment, macular degeneration, are inextricably linked with age-related changes in the ner...

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