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Correct instillation of eye drops is crucial for successful treatment of eye disease. Many patients have difficulties instilling eye drops, especially patients with loss of fixation, who cannot see the tip of the bottle. These patients may turn to harmful techniques, such as touching the dropper tip to the eye, or wasteful ones, such as feeling the sensation of drops hitting the eye or lower lid.¹ Non-compliance may become an issue as well, resulting from a combination of poor drop administration and frustration. The frustration stems from an inability to see the bottle tip.

We describe a new method of drop instillation which increases the accuracy with which eye drops are dispensed, thereby decreasing the incidence of harmful techniques, and possibly increasing compliance.

I guess that's the most suitable place to tell my story. So I'll put it piece by piece. It will be about pigmentary glaucoma.

Hello to everyone with my first post. I'd like to pass big thanks to the founder(s) and maintainter(s) of this site (by the way: page lacks kind of "who we are" link). I'm happy to join your community. I hope I'll be able to give it as much as I can take from it.

I'm on low but frequent doses of pilocarpine for a few months. This drops show their effect in about 30 minutes, so it's easy to tell if they are working. So finding a way to make them work always wasn't very difficult.

Question (via FitEyes.com contact form): Hello. My father's optic nerve became damaged in 1985. Is there any cure for it?
Regards, nilesh

Reply: Yes, I think it may be possible to reverse optic nerve damage (even though mainstream medicine currently disagrees with that position).

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I have pre-glaucoma (my field of vision is normal, but the nerves in the back are damaged).  I've been to the doctor several times.  Each time the tech checks my pressure and it's fine (13-15), then a few minutes later (5-30) the doctor comes in and checks again.  It has always been high (18-20) when he does it.  He says she's not doing in right and she says he's not doing it right.  Is is possible that he makes me nervous enough for my pressure to go up that much in such a short amount of time?

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Question: Does reading a computer monitor for an hour and feeling eye strain raise your IOP?

My Answer: The question of computer use and intraocular pressure is a common topic. Many people report that using the computer (even for several hours) for relaxing activities does not raise intraocular pressure. I have found this to be true for myself as well.

However, when a feeling of eye strain or psychological stress is involved, it is a different issue in my opinion.

Carl Camras, a renowned glaucoma researcher who helped develop latanoprost, has died at only 55 years of age.

The Chicago native died of heart failure Tuesday at his home in Omaha.

The glaucoma eye drop latanoprost, sold under the trade name Xalatan, has become the most effective drug to treat glaucoma. Glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness, affecting more than 2 million Americans.

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Effect of Continuous Strenuous Exercise on Intraocular Pressure by Isaac Ashkenazi, Shlomo Melamed, and Michael Blumenthal

Introduction

Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids are highly enriched in the nervous system. Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA; 22:6n-3),in particular, is the most abundant polyunsaturated fatty acid in the brain and is concentrated in aminophospholipids of cell membranes. Numerous studies have indicated that this concentration of DHA in the nervous system is essential for optimal neuronal and retinal functions (1).

Although the underlying mechanisms of its essential function are still not clearly understood, emerging evidence suggests that unique metabolism of DHA in relation to its incorporation into neuronal membrane phospholipids plays an important role. In this review, biochemical mechanisms for enriching and metabolizing DHA in neural cells are discussed in the context of their biological significance in neuronal function.

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Read the abstract or download the article here...