Treating the sensation of a shroud in front of the eyes

Self-medication can complicate the diagnostic task and complicate the disease. Even if you see that you have brought in an infection, determining the type of pathogen will help the doctor prescribe effective treatment.

So, what to do if your vision is cloudy? A sudden veil before your eyes, accompanied by pain in them, may require emergency medical intervention due to occlusion of the eye vessels or an acute attack of closed-angle glaucoma.

If there was a relatively recent eye injury that seemed to have gone away, a consultation regarding the integrity of the cornea, vitreous body and retina is also necessary.

If you suspect a stroke, hypertensive crisis, acute transient ischemic attack, you should also call an ambulance. In general, if the patient's condition is rapidly deteriorating, accompanied by weakness and pain, you should seek emergency care.

If the veil before the eyes accompanied a migraine attack, significant fluctuations in blood pressure and passed after the condition stabilized, then you just need to visit a doctor and undergo a course of preventive therapy.

People suffering from vegetative-vascular dystonia, diabetes, chronic diseases accompanied by anemia should also not ignore the appearance of a veil in the eyes, since such a symptom may indicate a worsening of their condition, as well as the development of completely new pathologies.

Eye drops should be prescribed by a doctor. They have different effects. Thus, in case of uncomplicated xerophthalmia, drugs are prescribed that compensate for insufficient secretion of tear fluid and provide the necessary moisture, the so-called artificial tears: Sikaprotekt, Hilo-care, Restasis, Oftolik, Oftagel, Gipromellose, Artelac. They eliminate discomfort in the eyes, preventing corneal drying caused by various reasons, including systemic diseases. Drops are also intended for patients using contact lenses.

In case of corneal inflammation (keratitis), a course of therapy is carried out aimed at destroying the pathogen and eliminating the inflammation. Antiviral (Ophthalmoferon, Aktipol), antibacterial (Floxal), antiallergic drops (Opatanol) are prescribed. Antifungal drugs are prescribed depending on the type of fungus.

For keratitis of various origins, corneal injuries and after corneal surgeries, Lipoflavon drops are used, which are a liposomal emulsion - a biostimulator for the restoration of damaged tissues.

In the initial stages of cataracts, drops are prescribed that slow down the process of lens clouding: Quinax (an inhibitor of the action of a quinoid substance that destroys the protein of the lens), Oftan Katahrom (restoring the level of cytochrome C, reduced in this pathology, thereby inhibiting oxidative reactions in the tissues of the eye and slowing down the process of lens clouding, nutrients adenosine, which is involved in the transmission of energy and signals, and nicotinamide (vitamin B3) activate the restoration of endothelial cells of the lens, normalize metabolic processes and remove toxic substances.

There may be some effect from using these drops and their analogues, but modern medicine does not yet have the means to reverse the development of cataracts. An effective treatment for this disease is surgery.

Glaucoma is treated with medications that reduce intraocular pressure. This disease cannot be cured at the current level, but it is possible to maintain the eye in working condition for quite a long time.

For example, Fotil eye drops contain two components used as monodrugs: pilocarpine hydrochloride, which enhances the outflow of intraocular fluid, and timolol maleate, which inhibits its production. This combination made the combined drops a more effective and convenient means to use than monodrugs. By instilling it twice a day (morning and evening), one drop in each eye, the patient receives a dose of active ingredients equivalent to two instillations of Timolol and three of Pilocarpine, as monodrugs. Moreover, when it is convenient, it is impossible to instill them in the required quantities on the same day, since the active ingredients are inactivated in the presence of each other. It is necessary to follow a rather complex scheme, which is inconvenient for patients.

In Fotil drops, their combination is presented in the form of a stable solution in which the components potentiate each other’s action.

In diabetic retinopathy, treatment is aimed at compensating for the underlying disease, and drops, oral and parenteral medications are prescribed to maintain normal metabolism in the structures of the visual organs.

Taufon drops can be prescribed to diabetics to stop degenerative processes in eye tissues, stabilize the functions of cell membranes and the electrolyte composition of their cytoplasm. They are also intended for patients with cataracts, glaucoma, traumatic and other lesions. There is evidence that the drops can reduce intraocular pressure.

For diseases that manifest as a veil that clouds the field of vision, not only local treatment is used, but also systemic treatment.

Injectable drug Retinalamin, which is a polypeptide complex that improves metabolic processes in the cells of the eye structures, especially in the retina, reduces inflammation, stimulates the restoration of damaged eye tissues. Low-molecular polypeptides and amino acids activate the activity of light-sensitive receptors of the retina, normalize the functions of the vascular membrane, and have an immunostimulating effect. The drug improves vascular patency, restores metabolism and promotes adequate nutrition of the retinal tissues.

Injections of the drug are made intramuscularly or under the eyeball through the skin of the lower eyelid (parabulbar) once a day.

Injections are prescribed to patients with dystrophic changes in the retina, its partial detachment, diabetic retinopathy in a course of five to ten days in a single dose of 0.005-0.01 g.

They can also be prescribed to patients with compensated open-angle glaucoma at 0.005 g for ten days or malignant myopia in the same course. At the same time, angioprotectors and B vitamins are included in the treatment regimen.

In case of degenerative changes of the macula, Lucentis is injected directly into the vitreous body of the eye (intravitreal). The active substance is a fragment of an antibody obtained by recombination that inhibits the activity of vascular endothelial growth factor A. The drug prevents the proliferation and growth of endothelial cells. Slowing down their proliferation and vascular growth reduces the risk of developing degenerative processes in the macula, including those associated with diabetes.

Side effects from Lucentis injections are quite serious. Cataracts, retinal detachment, and purulent inflammation of the inner membranes of the eyeball may result from eye injury during the procedure. Intraocular hypertension or stroke may occur. In addition to serious side effects, patients during the study experienced invasive infectious and inflammatory processes in the structures of the nasopharynx and eyes, hematopoietic disorders, anxiety, and headache. It is possible that cough, muscle pain, nausea, and skin allergic reactions may be associated with the injections. In general, the prevalence of side effects covers at least two percent of patients.

Such injections are not recommended for minors, pregnant and lactating women, patients with existing inflammatory diseases of the internal structures of the eye, pre- and postoperative ophthalmological patients (a period of at least 28 days should be observed from or until the moment of surgery). Caution is necessary when prescribing Lucentis to patients at risk of stroke, occlusion of intraocular vessels. If during treatment the patient experiences a significant decrease in visual acuity, intraocular hypertension, hemorrhage in the eye, therapy with the drug should be discontinued.

Injections are given one per month at a dose of 0.5 mg. The entire contents of the vial are used at once. During treatment, visual function indicators are monitored before the next injection. The duration of use is determined by achieving stable visual acuity.

To prevent the progression of cataracts and other degenerative changes in the lens caused by minor radiation exposure, Fakovit tablets are prescribed, which are a vitamin complex consisting of two different tablets. One of them (white) dissolves in gastric juice and contains:

• glutamic acid – a stimulator of oxidation processes, carbohydrate and protein metabolism, increases tissue resistance to hypoxia;
• glycine and - has a beneficial effect on the functioning of the central nervous system;
• Pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6) – involved in most metabolic processes, facilitating the transport of amino acids across the cell membrane, a stimulator of hematopoiesis.

The other is bright yellow or brownish, dissolves in the intestines. It contains:

• levocysteine – necessary for the functioning of the optic nerve and eye muscles, strengthens the immune system and has antioxidant properties;
• Vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant that strengthens blood vessels, removes toxins from tissues, and accelerates reparative processes.

The combined vitamin preparation helps to normalize metabolic processes in the eye structures, their active nutrition and renewal, which is expressed in slowing down the clouding of the lens.

Vitamin deficiency leads to decreased visual acuity and the appearance of photopsies. Vitamin A is necessary for good vision in the dark, vitamin C protects eye tissue from hypoxia, maintains muscle tone, B vitamins strengthen blood vessels, improve the conductivity of nerve impulses to the eyes, stimulate metabolic processes in the eye tissues. There are special vitamin and mineral complexes for eye health that reduce the risk of developing cataracts, glaucoma, retinal detachment, which the doctor can include in the treatment regimen for diseases causing the appearance of a veil in the eyes.

Physiotherapeutic treatment is also used in ophthalmology. The most frequently prescribed is medicinal electrophoresis, when medicinal substances are delivered to tissues from aqueous solutions in the form of ions by means of direct current. It is used for various inflammatory and dystrophic processes in the structures of the eye, for hemophthalmos, clouding of the vitreous body, age-related macular degeneration, damage to the retinal vessels, and inflammation of the optic nerve.

Electrical stimulation is used to influence the eye muscles and nerves – degenerative processes in the retina, myopia, essential open-angle glaucoma (compensated).

Magnetophoresis, puncture physiotherapy, laser stimulation of the retina and optic nerve, phonophoresis, and UHF therapy may be indicated.

Physiotherapeutic procedures are not prescribed to patients with neoplasms, third-degree hypertension, exacerbations of chronic infections or acute infectious diseases of unknown origin, decompensated pathologies of internal organs, hematopoiesis disorders, epilepsy.

Folk remedies

Which methods to use for treating eyes, offered by official medicine or alternative, is a personal matter for everyone. Fans of folk methods of treatment claim that urine therapy can cope even with such serious diseases as glaucoma and cataracts. Urine is not only used to instill or wash eyes, but also to make compresses, drink it and get rid of eye diseases forever, simultaneously curing other pathologies.

They use activated (passed through a magnetron) children's urine, fresh urine and evaporated urine salts. There are many recipes. People who have managed to overcome incurable diseases willingly share their experience.

For example, a man who was diagnosed with cataracts managed to get rid of them in just two weeks by washing his eyes with fresh morning urine every day after sleep. Whether he had cataracts or the doctor was wrong is unknown, but since official medicine can only offer surgery, which can be done at any time, you can try.

There is information that when metal shavings got into the eye, rinsing and subsequent lotions every half hour with fresh warm urine eliminated the consequences of the injury within half a day. The dynamics of the symptoms looked like this: about five hours after the start of treatment, purulent discharge stopped (if the eye had time to fester, then the injury is not too fresh), after seven hours the swelling went away, and after 12 - the redness of the inner part of the eyelid and the white of the eye.

A veil from the eyes, even a dark one, is removed by instilling fresh milk. Only do not leave it in the eyes, immediately after instillation they are washed with water.

Place liquid fresh natural honey behind the eyelids or drip it into the eyes, hover your eyes over warm boiled whey (until tears) or dill broth.

Yoga can restore eye health. You need to learn to relax, breathe correctly, and expose your closed eyes to the sun. When your closed eyes get used to the sunlight, it is recommended to open your upper eyelid with your hand and, looking down, expose the white of your eye to the sun. Such exercises are done at dawn or sunset, and you can blink if you wish.

The Tratak exercise, performed regularly, is said to be able to cure many problems, even cataracts.

Palming and Bates exercises for eye training, performed daily to relieve tension after visual strain, also give positive results in accommodation disorders, dry eye syndrome, myopia and presbyopia, in addition, they are a good preventative measure for visual impairment.

Herbal treatment is a must in any national medicine. In our region, fragrant rue, eyebright, sweet clover, calendula, and chamomile are used to treat eyes. Herbs can be bought at a pharmacy and brewed according to the recipe published on the package. Most often, eyes are washed with herbal infusions and compresses are made with them. Of course, such methods can help relieve visual strain, alleviate the condition of inflammatory eye diseases or uncomplicated xerophthalmia. Some even claim that calendula helped them cure cataracts.

Juice therapy, in particular carrot juice, will help get rid of the veil in the eyes that appears when it gets dark. Juices from vegetables and fruits rich in vitamin C will strengthen the immune system, and this will have a positive effect on the quality of vision. Blueberries, rowan berries, sea buckthorn are also very useful for the human optical system.

Simply, before using the centuries-old experience of home medicine, it is necessary to undergo an examination and, if emergency measures are not required, then you can try to get rid of the symptom with the help of folk remedies.

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Homeopathy

Classical treatment with one drug requires mandatory consultation with a specialist. It can be very effective if the homeopathic remedy is prescribed individually and correctly. The arsenal of remedies used for blurred vision is diverse.

In case of photopsia with a haze before the eyes, the following monodrugs are prescribed: Agaricus (Fly agaric), Argentum nitricum (Silver nitrate), Baryta carbonica (Barium carbonate), Cocculus (Cocculus), Lilium tigrinum (Tiger lily), Thuja (Thuja). If the haze is accompanied by photophobia - China (Cinchona), Lithium carbonicum (Lithium carbonate), pain -
Aletris farinosa (Floury aletris), Artemisia (Wormwood), Silicea (Silicic acid), flashes of light - Formica rufa (Red wood ant), Iodum (Iodine), Secale (Rye ergot).

Nearsighted patients and those suffering from age-related farsightedness may be shown Hyoscyamus, glaucoma - Hepar sulfur, Sanguinaria and many others. Correctly selected homeopathic treatment can stop the development of cataracts. But in any case, an individual approach is necessary.

In pharmacies you can buy eye drops Oculoheel - a complex of four plant substances in homeopathic dilutions:

Cochlearia officinalis (Arctic spoonwort) – helps eliminate dry eyes;

Echinacea (Echinacea) – immunostimulant;

Euphrasia (Eyebright) is one of the main drugs used for inflammation of the structural elements of the eye;

Pilocarpus (Pilocarpus jaborandi) is a plant alkaloid that reduces intraocular pressure.

The drops have an anti-inflammatory effect, eliminate irritation, the effects of visual strain, and regulate moisture.

They can be used from birth, there are no contraindications for their use during pregnancy and lactation.

Newborns are given eye drops once a day, one or two drops in each eye. From one to two full years, two drops can be given in each eye once or twice a day, from three to five years, two drops are given twice a day. From the age of six, two drops can be given twice or three times a day, and from the age of twelve, two drops are given in each eye three times a day.

Surgical treatment

One of the causes of progressive blurred vision is cataract. An effective method of its elimination is surgery, and nowadays it is performed even in the initial stages of the disease. There is no need to wait until it "matures" and complete blindness occurs. The surgery is performed in cases when the visual defect begins to affect the quality of life. Specialists recommend performing surgical treatment early, without waiting for the development of complications in the form of progressive myopia, iridocyclitis, dislocation of the lens nucleus, secondary glaucoma.

The surgical intervention is performed on high-tech equipment through small punctures, on an outpatient basis and takes only a quarter of an hour. It is not accompanied by painful sensations. The intraocular lens is made of soft polymer materials and is selected individually for each patient. The patient begins to see well literally a couple of hours after the intervention.

Another common treatment is laser coagulation of the detached retina. It is performed to strengthen this intraocular structure against the background of treatment with drugs that normalize the state of the eye vessels and metabolic processes in it. Painless outpatient laser treatment is well tolerated and effectively restores the structure of the eye.

Surgical intervention is used in acute attacks of glaucoma, progressive myopia. In case of total damage to the cornea, implantation of a donor organ can be performed.

Surgical treatment is used in cases of brain tumors.

Nowadays, many operations are well-developed and allow you to restore the quality of vision, especially if you seek help in a timely manner.

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