Most people assume its natural for our eyesight to go as we age – and that myth can be quite dangerous.
The fact is that no one’s eyes just get “bad.” There is always a cause for blurry vision, spots, and loss of vision.
An annual checkup can help diagnose conditions before they become severe. Here are four reasons to make them a priority:
- Checkups reveal issues you won’t see or feel. Your eye doctor dilates your eyes which opens the pupil. This allows you eye doctor to view the inside of your eye to look for muscular degeneration, glaucoma, and melanomas. The eye doctor can see the retina, lens and optic nerve and get a full picture of eye health.
- Your eyes reveal your overall health. The eye allows doctors to visualize nerves and blood vessels. This lets them to see signs of hypertension, high cholesterol, and diabetes – three of the leading causes of heart disease and death in the U.S.
- Advances in technology help the way you see. Prescription readers and progressive lenses have seen lots of advances in recent years, making them ideal for most to improve depth perception. New materials in contacts allow them to solve more than one vision problem at a time. Anti-reflective lenses make night driving easier.
- It can prevent keep diabetics from going blind. AARP cited a source in an article that said 60% of those with diabetes. Diabetes causes leakage of fluid in the retina and that can cause loss of vision. Early detection can stop and even reverse vision loss. That’s why an annual dilated exam from your eye doctor is a must for diabetics.
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