Overview of treatment methods for retinal angiopathy
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Medical measures taken to treat vascular complications in retinal angiopathy should be comprehensive.
- Important drug therapy, which aims to improve blood flow in the vessels of the eyes. Treatment is carried out using the following drugs: Emoksipina, Mildronata, Solcoseryl, Vasonitis, Arbiflex, Trenatal. These medicines improve the processes of microcirculation in the eye vessels. Also, the effect of using these medicines will be an increase in the plasticity of the red blood cells, which helps them move better through the capillaries of the eyes.
- Help to prevent thrombus formation following drugs - Pentoxifylline and Curantil. It is also good to use medicines to improve the rheology of blood in the vessels - Xanthiol nicotinate and nicotinic acid.
- Reduces the permeability of blood vessels ginkgo biloba and calcium dobesilate.
- Nutrition of the eye tissues is best provided by injections of Actovegin, as well as eye drops, which will be described below. The exchange of nutrients in the vessels and nearby tissues helps to restore the use of cocarboxylase and ATP.
- It is also necessary to take vitamin complexes to improve the eyes, which are represented by drugs Lutein Complex, Anthocyan Forte. It is also important to take ascorbic acid and Neurorubin. Such a measure will allow to achieve the effect of improving microcirculation in the eye vessels, as well as support the visual acuity of the patient.
- Compliance with a special diet, especially with diabetes, which will help neutralize the underlying disease, and improve blood circulation in the retina. It is important to know that one of the requirements of such a diet is the existence of a ban on foods rich in carbohydrate. The same applies to food with a large number of calories per unit of measurement. Salt restrictions in dishes are also important, since they lead to normalization of metabolism and improvement of the body's recovery functions.
- Inclusion in the daily routine of feasible physical exercises that give energy to the muscular system, and also improve the condition of the vessels and heart.
- In the treatment of angiopathy, which is caused by hypertension, it is important to lower the blood pressure level, as well as the amount of cholesterol by using a special diet and medications. Such a comprehensive treatment can be carried out by a therapist or cardiologist.
- Application of methods of physiotherapy. It is possible to use laser coagulation, as well as course treatment with magnetotherapy and acupuncture.
- An important method of physiotherapy is considered at the moment "Sidorenko Points". This device is a combination of pneumomassage, phonophoresis, infrasound and color therapy. Such a complex powerfully affects the retina of the eye, allowing you to achieve a high effect in a short time.
- It is good to pass courses of massages of a cervical department of a backbone.
Drops with retinal angiopathy
An ophthalmologist may prescribe a patient to use drops for the eyes. The aim of this therapy is to improve the metabolic processes in the eyes, as well as the intensification of blood circulation in the retinal vessels and the organization of the nutritional process of all eye tissues for a long time.
Drops for the eyes are selected as one of the components of complex therapy and are considered an element of symptomatic treatment.
Drops with retinal angiopathy are represented by the following names:
Taufon
- Drops are issued in vials of five and ten milliliters. The active component of the drug is taurine. It is used in the amount of one or two drops three times a day.
Recommended for:
- trauma to the cornea,
- moderate retinal angiopathy,
- age, radiation and traumatic cataracts,
- dystrophic changes that touched the retina and cornea,
- open-angle glaucoma.
Effects of the use of medicament:
- stabilization of cell membranes,
- activating the regeneration of the cornea after trauma,
- stimulation of the processes of exchange and energy in the eyes,
- normalization of intraocular pressure.
Emoxipine
It is a synthetic antioxidant, used one or two drops from two to three times a day. Course treatment takes place in different ways: both three days and a month. There are contraindications to the use of medication for pregnant women and people who are hypersensitive to the components of the drug.
Recommended for:
- burns of the cornea,
- disorders of the blood circulation of the brain,
- hemorrhages within the eyes, which have a different origin,
- angiopathy caused by diabetes,
- complications caused by myopathy and glaucoma.
Effects of the use of medicament:
- promotes resorption of small hemorrhages that are present on the retina,
- protects the retina from bright rays of light,
- strengthens the vessels of the eyes and reduces the fragility and permeability of their walls,
- activates the flow of blood in the vessels.
Quinaks
Effects of the use of medicament:
- regulation of metabolic processes in the tissues of the eye,
- stimulation of antioxidant processes,
- improvement of the lens in the form of increasing its transparency.
Aisotin
It helps to strengthen and restore vision in various eye diseases. The form of release - ten milliliters, in bottles. It is used three times a day for two drops with a course of treatment of two or more months.
Recommended for:
- recovery from surgery on the eyes, various surgical interventions and laser therapy,
- conjunctivitis,
- redness of the sclera of the eye,
- glaucoma,
- burns of the eyes,
- angiopathy of diabetic origin,
- various visual pathologies.
Emoticon Optics
Produced as a less expensive substitute for Emoxipine.
Recommended for:
- burn the cornea,
- hemorrhage in the sclera of the eye,
- inflammatory processes in the cornea,
- constant progression of myopia.
Effects of the use of medicament:
- strengthening of vessels, namely their walls,
- the blood is activated and diluted, which promotes resorption of intraocular hemorrhages,
- inhibiting oxidative processes involving lipids,
- increases the resistance of the eye tissues to a lack of oxygen.
Treatment of retinal angiopathy by alternative means
In the complex therapy of retinal angiopathy, treatment with alternative agents is necessarily present. So, let's give an exemplary list of methods of alternative healing, which experts recommend. 1.
From various deposits in the vessels helps use
- juice, squeezed out of fresh parsley,
- infusion of dill seeds,
- a mixture in which seeds of cumin and the stem of a blue cornflower are present,
- tea from the leaves of black currant,
- tea from the fruits of mountain ash.
Cleaning fees for vessels:
- take one hundred grams of chamomile, like one hundred grams of St. John's wort,
- you can use a hundred grams yarrow and with the same number of birch buds and immortelle (sometimes immortelle replaced with corn stigmas),
- the selected version of the collection is taken in the amount of a tablespoon and poured with half a liter of boiling water,
- the drink is infused for fifteen to twenty minutes,
- after which it must be filtered and brought to the initial volume with the help of warm water,
- half of the drink is drunk in the evening, and after its use you can not drink or eat, and the remaining half is drunk in the morning on an empty stomach,
- The procedure is repeated until the finished mixture of plants is finished.
Collection, supporting the tone of the vessels:
- the rhizome of valerian and melissa leaves are taken for fifteen grams, and the yarrow herb in the amount of fifty grams,
- all is well mixed and selected two teaspoons of the mixture,
- this amount of raw material is poured into a glass of water at room temperature and left to infuse for three hours,
- after which the infusion boiled with a water bath for fifteen minutes, cool and filter,
- then the infusion is brought to a quarter of a liter of water and drunk within a day several times,
- the course of therapy is three weeks.
Collection, maintaining the state of the vessels:
- field horsetail is taken in the amount of twenty grams, a bird mountaineer - in the amount of thirty grams, and hawthorn - in the amount of fifty grams,
- everything is mixed, take two teaspoons and pour a glass of boiling water,
- The drink is left to persist for half an hour,
- is taken infusion of one tablespoon for thirty minutes before meals three times a day,
- the course of therapy is one month.