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The Facts about
Central Vision Blindness By Teri Brown
Macular degenerative diseases remain difficult to treat even with advances in technology. Laser therapy, drug therapy, surgery and vitamin therapy are a few of the options from which patients can choose.
Central Vision Blindness
Dr. Allen Josephs, chief of neurology at St. Barnabas Hospital in Livingston, N.J., says that some promising studies have been done concerning vitamins and other nutrients. "There are some nutritional therapies that show great promise, not only for stabilizing the condition, but also reversing the condition," says Dr. Josephs.
The Age-Related Eye Disease Study from the National Eye Institute is the first large clinical trial to test the effect of high-dose antioxidant vitamins in preventing or delaying the progression of macular degeneration. According to the study, scientists found that people at high risk of developing advanced stages of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of vision loss, lowered their risk by about 25 percent when treated with a high-dose combination of vitamin C, vitamin E, beta-carotene and zinc.
"All of a sudden I could hardly see out of one eye," says Chapman. "I was sent to a retinal specialist who diagnosed me. My regular ophthalmologist was surprised, as he had seen me recently and had detected nothing."
Chapman had some complications and underwent several surgical procedures. Her friends were very supportive, but something was missing. "They did the best they could," says Chapman. "But I really needed to find people who had gone through the same thing. I found that support online, and now I can give that support to others who are living through it as well."
Dan Roberts knows just how she feels.
