When patients with glaucoma sleep, the pillow, whether it is higher or lower, has less impact on the condition of glaucoma.
Glaucoma is a common disease in ophthalmology, and it is the 2nd most common blinding eye disease in China. If not treated in time, it will have a serious impact on the patient’s visual function. When glaucoma patients sleep, the pillow, regardless of the height of the cushion, the impact on the glaucoma condition is generally small, to the patient’s comfort.
Glaucoma patients need to control intraocular pressure in time to relieve the progress of the disease, can follow the doctor’s instructions to use eye drops to lower intraocular pressure treatment, such as carteolol hydrochloride eye drops, timolol maleate eye drops, brinzolamide eye drops and so on. If the effect of drug treatment is not good, the patient can feasible surgical treatment, such as composite trabeculectomy and so on.
It is recommended that patients with glaucoma consult a hospital in time to assess their condition and follow the doctor’s instructions for treatment.