March 6th - March 12th
| Company: | World Glaucoma Week |
| Web site: | http://www.worldglaucomaweek.org |
Each year there is a common theme that is then adapted to local conditions uniting efforts.First Degree Relatives (FDRs) as they have a ten-fold increase in life-long glaucoma risk. If FDRs were to act on this information with regular glaucoma optic nerve tests, it would be likely to save a great deal of sight.
Glaucomas cause progressive damage to vision; they do so without warning till later in the disease process and while treatment is effective in arresting the disease, it cannot reverse damage already present. The earlier the diagnosis, the less damage done and the more vision there is to save.
