Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness in the United States. Diabetes is a disease that effects blood vessels throughout the body including the eye. Some of the smallest and most delicate blood vessels in our body are found in the retina. Therefore they are some of the first ones affected by poor blood sugar control.

With diabetes, the blood vessels walls get damaged by chemical reactions caused by high sugar levels in the blood. Blood vessel walls can bulge and then leak causing swelling and hemorrhaging in the eye.

With proper care, diabetic eye disease can be controled allowing vision to be maintained. When diabetic patients fail to take care of their disease and it affects the eyes there can be permenant damage such as decreased vision and even blindness.

Some diabetics never have any eye issues and some have many eye problems. Each patient is different. Fortunately your eye care professional can detect and monitor eye damage and vision changes caused by diabetes.
The good news is there are new and improved medical treatments for those patients who do have diabetic eye disease. If you have diabetes you need to keep your sugar levels under control and have regular eye exams.

Make sure you get a yearly comprehensive eye exam by your eye care professional.

More people than ever before are consulting their eye doctors about eye strain while viewing things up close for fairly prolong periods amount of time. And it is not only adult office workers, but the young are now complaining vision problems from working on computers, using hand held devices and texting on their cell phones.

If you spend a fair amount of time looking at a digital device screen you would most likely most benefit from specially designed reading glasses or possibly computer glasses. Prescription reading glasses are designed to focus at a certain distance up close and can be prescribed for any age to help enhanced reading comfort.

On the other hand, computer glasses maybe a better choice for adults. Computer glasses provide multiple focal lengths which allow users to focus at multiple ranges within lengths arms reach. This kind of versatility can reduce computer eye strain while enhancing concentration.

Before your next eye appointment you will need to measure the distance from the bridge of your nose to the screen for all of the devices that you typically use. Take that list with you to your next eye doctor appointment.

If you are a good candidate, your eye doctor can utilize this list to prescribe personalized reading glasses or computer glasses to relieve eye strain associated with close range viewing.