What treatments are available to me if I have glaucoma?

What treatments are available to me if I have glaucoma?

Robert K. Maloney (Ophthalmologist) gives expert video advice on: What treatments are available to me if I have glaucoma?; Can glaucoma be prevented? and more...

The basic treatment for glaucoma is lowering the pressure in the eye so that it stops damaging the eye nerve. There are a number of ways to do that. It can be done with eyedrops that lower eye pressure, with laser treatment that essentially creates little holes to let some of the pressure leak out of the eye, or with a surgery where the doctor actually makes a hole from the inside of the eye to the outside to let that pressure off. With the proper treatment, glaucoma can almost always be controlled and blindness prevented.