Uveitis, A Preventable Blinding Condition

Before you panic because I mentioned blindness, there is a reason why it is not a big focus like Glaucoma around the world. This is because it is very much treatable and the chances of one losing their sight to uveitis, well is not so high because uveitis is uncomfortable, unlike Glaucoma. It would give you signs, symptoms, pains, and discomfort including a reduction in vision which would send you to the doctor.

The only thing here to notice is the going to see the eye doctor part, which some individuals may decide to skip because they believe they can endure pain or that whatever they may be experiencing will pass and that they just have to wait it out. The worst is those who just rush to the pharmacy to get any eye drop for their eye hoping that it would cure whatever may be going on with their eye.

They forget that like the body every condition or situation has a particular treatment plan and the fact that a drug may be a pill doesn't mean every pill will solve every problem. In the same vein, every eye drop is not the same and what that means is that simply buying an eye drop and using it on the eye without proper assessment and care wouldn't solve your issues. If anything you would get a false sense of security, and leave things hanging until it's too late.

Uveitis is simply an inflammatory condition that could affect the anterior or posterior segments of the eye and can easily be treated with the necessary eye drops and oral medications where need be, however, one could suffer from complications of media opacities or cataracts which would drastically reduce your vision or even retinal detachment which would result in complete loss of vision when it's not treated and left unattended.

My intention is not to scare you into going for an eye checkup but simply to make the facts bare before you. It would hurt a lot and I have seen how patients react to some of these issues when I have to tell them that their waiting it off has resulted in their current situation and that nothing can be done for them at this point to improve their vision.

Do not let it be you, it is better safe than sorry, or as the cliche goes, prevention is better than cure. What you think could be nothing, could actually be something, do not play cards with your vision, talk to a professional when in doubt, and do right by yourself and your vision always.