How to prevent and treat common eye diseases

  If you have wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and it is having some, or serious, impact on your vision. At this time, we need to seek timely consultation and find a professional ophthalmologist to develop a treatment plan suitable for the condition; otherwise, irreversible vision damage will occur if treatment is delayed.  The majority of wet AMD has choroidal neovascularization, or abnormal choroidal vessels, or neovascularization in the retina. Once these abnormal vessels are formed, they will definitely cause a series of pathological changes such as exudation, hemorrhage, mechanization, scarring, etc., which will eventually lead to the loss of all central vision.  Wet AMD early lesions only a little exudate, coupled with the volume of the lesion itself, will lift the retina, so that the interlayer separation, edema, clinical symptoms for “visual deformation”, such as further development will bleed, then vision will further decline, if too much bleeding will enter the vitreous, there will be floating objects in front of the eyes.  In the past, there was no good treatment, and most people eventually lost their vision.  A few years ago, photodynamic therapy (PDT) emerged, which involves injecting a specially formulated photosensitizer into the patient’s bloodstream and using a 689 nm laser to excite the photosensitizer as the drug circulates to the retina, thereby destroying the abnormal neovascularization with little to no damage to normal retinal tissue.  In the past few years, a newer and more effective treatment has emerged, “anti-VEGF therapy”, which is based on the understanding of the pathogenesis of CNV, where vascular endothelial cytokines play the most important role in the development of choroidal neovascularization (CNV), and anti-VEGF drugs bind all the detected isoforms, thus reducing the vascular permeability and inhibit CNV formation.  Anti-VEGF therapy is accomplished primarily by injecting anti-VEGF drugs into the eye. The treatment is usually done on a course of treatment, and the drug is used to treat wetness, just as we use “herbicides” to remove “weeds”. Injections, but also can not be indefinitely to inject.