Macular Degeneration is an eye disease that causes loss of vision. This affects the vision center and some patients can no longer read books, write checks, find a phone number in the phone, watching TV, or see the facial expressions of loved ones.
Macular Degeneration is an eye disease
Simple tasks can become impossible and frustration are common. Patients may feel alone because people do not know the symptoms of macular degeneration. It is not even new glasses can improve vision individuals. Many elderly patients fear that they awoke in the dark.
What is macular degeneration?
Macular Degeneration is an eye disease that affects the elderly. In the eyes of the macula, the area that allows people to see the detail and colors. Prevent macular degeneration of macular function properly and vision becomes blurred.
Aspects of the most characteristic of the disease spots big eyes covered field of view that makes the display head-on. The details are not possible to see, but peripheral vision is not affected.
Types of macular degeneration
There are two types of macular degeneration: dry and wet AMD AMD.
* Dry macular degeneration is the result of the generation called drusen fatty tissue under the retina.
* Wet macular degeneration is caused by the formation of abnormal blood vessels in the eye.
Up to 90 percent of people diagnosed with macular degeneration have the dry form.