Diabetes Can Significantly Affect Your Vision
When your body has issues creating or using insulin, you can develop diabetes. This disease can affect you in many ways, including your eyes. Without insulin, your blood glucose levels can rise, leading to serious complications if left unaddressed.
The best way to protect your eyes from diabetes-related complications is to have regular eye exams. These exams are specially tailored for people with diabetes, helping keep watch for signs of damage in the eyes.
Eye Exams Are Crucial When You Have Diabetes
When your blood glucose is too high, it can negatively affect your eye health. The many blood vessels in the back of your eye can receive damage and begin to swell, break, and leak fluid.
Diabetes can lead to several eye diseases, including:
- Diabetic retinopathy: Diabetic retinopathy occurs when tiny bulges protrude from the blood vessels in your eyes, causing fluid and blood to leak into the retina—in later stages, abnormal blood vessel growth can cause further complications
Diabetic macular edema: Diabetic macular edema is a complication of diabetic retinopathy—leaking fluid caused by retinopathy can cause the center of the retina, the macula, to swell
Eye Exam Frequency
Because of the risk diabetes can have on your eye health, regular eye exams are necessary to protect your vision. An annual eye exam is ideal if you have diabetes, but your optometrist may recommend you have more frequent exams depending on your needs.
Contact us to book an appointment when it’s time for your eye exam.
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