Tips from Valley doctor on avoiding macular degeneration

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Our eyes springiness america a wide presumption of the world.

Over time, that imaginativeness tin go blurry.

"Macular degeneration is an acquired degeneration of the macula," says Dr. Neesurg Mehta. "As we get older, the halfway of the retina tin get damaged and radical tin commencement to escaped their cardinal vision."

Macular degeneration tin marque mundane tasks similar speechmaking and buying difficult.

According to the National Health Institute, the illness affects 200 cardinal radical worldwide, and that fig is anticipated to leap to 300 cardinal by 2040.

It's a occupation that Dr. Mehta is moving to woody with astatine the Eye Medical Center successful Northeast Fresno

"I deliberation particularly arsenic the babe boomer procreation gets older, we're seeing a batch of this, particularly present successful the Central Valley," helium said. "About fractional of my session is conscionable dealing with macular degeneration"

Blurry imaginativeness is 1 of the main symptoms of macular degeneration.

Dr. Mehta says our familial past and property is what drives the disease. There are different factors that tin pb to it.

"If you person uncontrollable diabetes, precocious humor pressure, cardiovascular disease, cholesterol," helium said.

While determination is nary cure for macular degeneration, doctors accidental surviving a healthier manner tin little our risk.

"The astir avoidable hazard origin is smoking," Dr. Mehta said. "Smoking volition origin this to spell overmuch much faster."

Seeing an oculus doc regularly and getting an aboriginal diagnosis tin forestall macular degeneration and support your aboriginal successful focus.

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