Preventing Vision Loss Through Early Detection

0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday morning. What is today’s Doctor Peter Milos well and his nickname live long and prosper because you make sure that if you follow some of his suggestions that you may live longer. But doctor Peter Milloss Sunday morning, what do you have on your mind?

0:20 Speaker 2 Well today, like we always do, we try to give information that people can go and take to their doctors and discuss them, but to give them hints on how to protect themselves. And today one of the most important things in our life is the ability to see. And when they surveyed people would you rather if you had

0:37 a choice between cancer and losing your eyes? People would rather have cancer than going blind. Interestingly enough, so vision is very important than the vision. You can get several conditions that can affect vision, and one of them is cataracts.

0:53 If cataracts are aggravated by ultra violet radiation, spending too much time in the sun, very protective UVAUVB sunglasses, very important to wear hats with a brim because a lot of the sunlight and energy comes in through the sides and then the other saying that affects cataracts. As steroids like a lot of these over the counter nasal puffs

1:16 things that people take. It can do two things that can accelerate cataracts. Even some of the asthmas sprays that have sterogynic can accelerate cataracts. And a lot of all steroids that sometimes you have to take even an emergency will accelerate cataracts. And a certain percentage of the population.

1:32 Eye pressure is also elevated by exposure to steroids like treadnoson, So it has to be done under the supervision of a doctor and check your eyes always. The other thing that can affect the back of the eye is macular degeneration, and that’s a degenerative condition in the back of the eye where basically the garbage disposal system that cleans up

1:53 all the waste products of the blood flow and your meculars where your best central vision is that gets affected. We now know that eating a healthy diet with green leafy vegetables and having things like lutine and vitamin A and vitamin C all help with the back of the eye.

2:14 There’s even a study called the Arid Study where they gave this arids formula that contains some of these slavinoids in them that are similar to the retinal pigments in the back of the eye, and people actually got better in the study, and that’s why many doctors recommend these eye vitamins that say arids formula on them. The other

2:34 thing that can happen is elevated eye pressure of guacoma. That’s why it’s very important as we get older, it’s good to get a baseline even when you’re a young person. When you get your first eye exam, and probably in your thirties they start checking eye pressure is elevated eye pressure squeezes and pushes on the nerve in the back

2:50 of the eye, and the eye is the window to systemic disease. And many times ophiomologists are the first to diagnose diabetes and high blood pressure because the only place the human body you can directly visualized blood vessels is in the back of the d eye. So when the alphalmologist sees narrowing of the vessels, because you when your

3:07 blood pressures up, the vessels say I can’t take it anymore. So optomologists will sometimes tell you go get your eyes checked, and if they’re really super narrow, they’ll even tell you to go get your heart checked because if your vessels are very narrow in the back of your eye can also be in the heart in addition to something called

3:24 diabetic retinopathy where people when they have diabetes, they get leakage of the blood vessels and hemorrhage in the back of the eye and sometimes you have to spot weld it with laser to stop the bleeding and the hemorrhage.

3:37 And that was first done in nineteen thirty eight on a rooftop in Germany when a doc’s named Miles Stricker I took a diabetic lady up to the roof put liquid cocaine in her eye, dilated the pupil and use a magnifying glass to actually spot well the ret and that was the birth of laser. And that’s also a

3:52 fascinating topic. So protecting the eyes, and also kids can sometimes have unequalized so it’s important to get eye exams on young children because one eye may be fine, the other one may be lazy, and sometimes you need to get corrective glasses or even do eye patching the strengthen the other eye and make it stronger. And there’s another

4:11 goes to business, so we call cross eyede or squint, and there are surgical procedures that can straighten the eyes out with amazing wonderful technology that exists. And of course the lens m plants and small decision cataract surgery were changed forever it used to be a large incision. Now it’s a tiny, small decision. Thanks to a fellow from

4:32 Brooklyn named Charles Kellman who was having his teeth cleaned with ultrasound and they were removing plaque from his teeth and he said, I’m going to make a little probe with ultrasound and vactum cataracts out. And that revolutionized medicine and lens implants were developed because in World War Two, Sir Harold Ridley so some pilots who were shot out

4:49 on the airplanes and the polycarbonif from the windshields that went into the eyes of these pilots and the bodies weren’t rejecting it. He says, Wow, this is amazing. I’m going to make little tiny lenses to replace cataracts. And that was the birth of lens implants for cataract surgery.

5:04 So it’s a really an amazing history. And the eyes are very important, so very important to get annual eye exams to check your eye pressure, your macula, your vision and keep your eyes healthy so you can continue to live long and prosper. Because if people can see, they’re at high risks for full car accidents. And that’s why

5:24 it’s so important to have good vision. That’s why the Motor Vehicles requires us to have a minimum of twenty forty and at least one eye to be able to operate a motor vehicle.

5:36 Speaker 1 Doctor Peter me hellos, thank you so much for the update, and live long and prosper and we’ll catch up again real soon.

5:43 Speaker 2 Thank you John for always getting the truth out on the CATS round Table.