Ms. Vuong Han, living in Lam Binh, Hangzhou, China shared the morning when she was admitted to the hospital, when she woke up, she discovered that her right eye was dark, unable to see everything around.
“At first I thought that just a rest at the same time I would stabilize.However, a few hours later, my right eye still didn't see anything.I realized that the problem was serious, so I went to the eye department of Dong Tay Hospital in Lam Binh to visit and treat, "Vuong shared.
Dr. Pham Hieu Tinh worked at the hospital for examination for Ms. Vuong and initially diagnosed her with retinal center artery, the condition was similar to the eye stroke.
Vuong was extremely stunned to hear the two words "stroke" but she quickly calmly asked the doctor: "Eye stroke?Normally, I just heard a brain stroke, my eyes could have a stroke? ”
Dr. Pham Xiaoche explained that the eye stroke is a medical term.Eye stroke occurs when the retinal artery is blocked by blood clots.If not emergency and timely treatment, the disease can cause many serious complications such as retinal peeling, nerve glaucoma, blindness.
After the diagnosis, Dr. Pham Hieu Tinh used medication to dissolve blood clots combined with massage to improve blood circulation and treat patients.After treatment, Vuong's vision has improved.However, due to the late time when Mrs. Vuong came to the examination, ignoring the golden hour, the eyesight of the eye had to be decreased, unable to recover completely.
Ms. Vuong was diagnosed with eye stroke.(Artwork, Source: Mid Ohio Eyes).
According to the doctor, the eye stroke often occurs with middle -aged people, the elderly or people with diseases such as diabetes, glaucoma, cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, high blood fat.However, experts note that everyone may be at risk of stroke in the eye, so people are not subjective when they see abnormal symptoms.
Signs of eye stroke warning
The naked eye stroke does not cause pain, the patient mainly loses vision in one eye when waking up in the morning or has vision impairment for hours or days.
Accordingly, the symptoms of eye stroke include:
- Losing all or part of vision.Visitations often get worse over time.
- Vision is limited.
- Fuzzy view or see distorted images.
- See dark areas (blind spots) in the upper or lower half of the vision.
- See objects floating or flashing.
Dr. Pham Hieu Tinh recommends that when the eyes appear abnormal signs, people should go to the hospital to check early for timely treatment and limit the risk of serious complications.
Losing all or part of vision may be a warning sign of eye stroke.(Photo: Vision Center)
Prevention of eye stroke
Dr. Pham Hieu Tinh said that people can reduce the risk of eye stroke by maintaining a healthy lifestyle and controlling background diseases (if any).Specifically as follows:
- Building a healthy diet to enhance the intake of foods rich in fiber, limiting the consumption of foods high in saturated fat, metabolic fat, foods high in salt and sugar to reduce the risk of the riskDiabetes, cardiovascular disease, thereby preventing eye stroke.
- Exercise regularly to improve health.
- If you have diabetes, people need to try to keep the blood sugar stable, follow the treatment as directed by the doctor.
- Monitor and control blood pressure, blood cholesterol levels to limit the risk of eye stroke.
- Examine eye check periodically every 6 months.
- No smoking, limiting the use of alcohol.