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Coping with Vision Loss
(Click
on "MDE Low Vision Store" to buy Low Vision products.)
Age-related
or health related problems affecting vision can be addressed with solutions, such as extra lighting,  (reading lamp 100 watt bulb). Some serious vision losses are due to blind spots (scotomas) caused by age-related eye diseases
including glaucoma, macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy. Many Low Vision devices are available for people with permanent
vision loss.
Low vision devices are available for those patients disabilities to enhance your vision
that you have lost. And are available to be mounted on your eyeglasses or hand handheld, close circurt tv, enabling
to read mail, write letters, watch tv, look at pictures of your grandchildren, or write a check to pay your
own bills, and the feeling of being able to be independent again.
Low vision is a term meaning partial
sighted or sight that is not fully correctable with surgery, pharmaceuticals, glasses or contacts. Low vision includes moderate
vision impairment, such as tunnel vision or blind spots. It also includes legal blindness and almost total blindness.
Low vision has a variety of causes, including eye injury, diseases and heredity. Sometimes low vision involves a lack of
acuity, meaning that objects do not come into focus. Or other times it involves the ability to distinguish colors or see contrasts
or determine spatial relationships among objects.
After age 60, patients may find that you need additonal illumination
for most tasks performed. This is because less light is reaching your retina where vision processing occurs, images are no
longer as sharp as they use to be. Also make sure you have regular eye exams that include critical tests for older eyes to
rule out potentially serious age-related eye diseases that may affect vision quality.
Cataracts, are a very common
in the over 60's age group, whick can cause cloudy vision. Cataracts usually are easily removed with surgery that removes
the eye's cloudy lens and replaces it with an IOL.
The EYE is the most important sensory organ,
our window to the world, and a necessity for an active lifestyle.
The eye works
in much the same way that a camera does: light travels through the pupil (aperture) and the lens (camera lens) and falls on
the retina (the film). The retina sends electrical signals via to the optic nerve to the brain, where the actual image that
we see is created. The exact center of the retina (macula) is the point where vision is the sharpest. The choroid, the peripheral
area of the retina, enables spatial orientation. Finally, to bring an image into focus, whereas a camera uses a zoom, your
ciliary muscles and lens perform the same function.
If you have questions regarding Low Vision Products,
you can e-mail at sales@diagnosticeyecare.com or click on MDE Low Vision Store
to search and buy Low Vision Products.
Welcome
to our Low Vision Division
MDE
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