In my country, the prevalence of diabetic retinopathy in diabetic patients is 24.7% to 37.5%. Among patients suffering from diabetes for more than 10 years, 50% are accompanied by retinopathy; among patients suffering from diabetes for more than 15 years, the incidence of retinopathy is as high as 63%. With the intensification of population aging, the elderly diabetic population has become the most common group with the highest incidence of "sugar net disease".
Elderly patients with diabetes have the characteristics of atypical symptoms, more common comorbidities, high risk of hypoglycemia, and limited self-management ability. Many people often wait until their vision has dropped significantly or even become blind before they go to the hospital to get diagnosed with diabetic retinopathy. At this time, the lost vision is often irreversible.
So, how should elderly diabetics scientifically prevent and control sugar net disease?
In order to prevent the serious deterioration of diabetic retinopathy, while reasonably controlling blood sugar, the large companies should conduct fundus examinations at least once every six months, so as to ensure that the problem can be solved in time in the early stages of the lesion; for patients with poor blood sugar control, the examination time is shortened to once every 3 months or even once every month.
It should be emphasized that sugar net disease does not have obvious symptoms in the early stage. Therefore, once suffers from diabetes, regardless of whether your vision decreases, it is necessary to regularly check the fundus and record the fundus condition. If necessary, retinal laser treatment should be performed in time to control diabetic fundus disease in the early stage and avoid developing to the late stage, resulting in irreversible blindness.
In addition, everyone should develop good living and eating habits in their daily lives. In addition to controlling blood sugar and visiting the hospital regularly for examination of the fundus, also needs to pay attention to every detail of life and develop good work and rest and eating habits. Exercise moderately, avoid sugar and sweet foods, eat more stem and leaf vegetables, crude fiber and low-fat diets; limit the staple food, eat less and eat more meals, and prohibit drinking alcohol.
At the same time, attention should be paid to eye hygiene, prevent from eye infection with , maintain an optimistic attitude, and face life positively.
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Source: Changsha Aier Eye Hospital
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