Remind 'sugar friends': it is very important to stabilize blood sugar, otherwise these 5 kinds of eye diseases will come to you sooner or later!

Diabetes is a metabolic disease characterized by hyperglycemia, but it is not just a metabolic disorder. For people with diabetes, they are most afraid of complications.

　　Relevant research and investigations show that long-term elevated blood sugar can cause damage to multiple organs and tissues of the patient's body, and induce various complications. There are even hundreds of complications related to it. It is the currently known complication. The most common type of disease.

Data show that 30-40% of patients with diabetes will have at least one complication 　　more than 10 years after the onset of diabetes . And once complications occur, drug treatment is often difficult to reverse.

　　Among all the complications of diabetes, diabetic eye disease is a relatively serious one, and almost all eye diseases may appear in diabetic patients.

　　In particular, the following eye diseases are relatively threatening to patients:

　　1. Retinopathy

　　This is one of the most serious diabetic eye diseases. According to relevant statistics, nearly 50% of diabetic patients will develop retinopathy for more than 10 years, and the incidence rate for more than 15 years has reached about 80%. The older you are, the higher the risk of developing the disease.

　　The reason why retinopathy is caused is because diabetes is combined with microvascular damage, resulting in damage to the retinal capillary wall , and then affected by the hypercoagulable state of blood, patients are prone to thrombosis, congestion, and even blood vessel rupture , which eventually develops into Retinopathy , which can even cause blindness;

2. Cataracts

　　Studies have shown that hyperglycemia can lead to cataracts in both in vivo and in vitro tests. Cataracts caused by diabetes account for about 60% of all cataract patients.

　　Not only that, patients with diabetes and cataracts have a much higher chance of surgery than other cataract patients, and usually require surgery;

3. Refractive error

　　There are many diabetic patients who do not know they have the disease at the initial stage. After a period of time, they find that they suddenly have symptoms of myopia, and they are diagnosed with diabetes and fluctuating refractive error when they go to the doctor for examination.

　　The reason for this is that the increase in blood sugar will cause the osmotic pressure of the aqueous humor to decrease. Therefore, when the blood sugar rises rapidly, the patient may suddenly develop myopia, or the original symptoms of presbyopia may suddenly decrease;

4. Ocular motor nerve palsy

　　Continued development of diabetes may be combined with atherosclerosis, leading to ischemia of the small blood vessels supplying the nerves of the eyelid. Some patients also have symptoms of oculomotor nerve palsy, resulting in extraocular muscle movement disorders and diplopia . For example, patients may have abducens nerve palsy and oculomotor nerve palsy . It is manifested as sudden drooping of the eyelids and inability to open the eyes .

　　However, this symptom often makes patients mistakenly think that they have eye disease and muscle weakness, and then ignore the blood sugar check;

5. Open-angle glaucoma

　　This kind of glaucoma mostly occurs in middle-aged and older patients, and some young diabetic patients may also appear. The disease is often bilateral and has a slow onset, with a gradual increase in intraocular pressure .

　　However, the angle of the chamber is always open , and most of them have no obvious symptoms . Therefore, the vast majority of patients are diagnosed with the disease only when they enter the advanced stage and have obvious vision and visual field defects.

　　Finally, I would like to remind everyone that not all people with diabetes will have eye lesions. You must know that any complications related to diabetes are actually based on the long-term poor control of diabetes and the continuous rise of blood sugar.

　　Therefore, instead of worrying about complications finding themselves, what patients really need to do is to actively control blood sugar and conduct regular eye health screening.