Ophthalmology office

Deterioration of vision, which is not associated with injuries or acute circulatory disorders, occurs gradually, so it is not always possible to notice when exactly the beginning of this process took place. Regular visits to the ophthalmologist's office, and checking visual acuity is an important parts of taking care of your health on the part of a modern person. In the ophthalmologist's office, visual acuity for far and near vision, peripheral vision by perimetry, examination of the anterior segment of the eye inside illumination, and refraction determination is performed. Correction of the detected violations, including spherical and astigmatic correction, detected refractive errors, and further observation in the ophthalmologist's office is the key to improving the patient's quality of life.

If the decrease in visual acuity is accompanied by a feeling of pressure in the eyes, and changes in the image, the examination is supplemented by several instrumental methods - tonometry, and ophthalmoscopy. Early diagnosis of glaucoma prevents complications such as damage to the optic nerve, which can lead to blindness in the later stages of the disease; therefore, checking the intraocular pressure is indicated for every middle-aged and elderly person. The method of ophthalmoscopy (direct and reverse) allows for diagnosis not only purely ophthalmological diseases but also diseases of the internal organs and nervous system, the symptoms of which are manifested in the fundus. This examination provides important information about the condition of chronic patients with diabetes mellitus, arterial hypertension, vasculopathy, etc.

The ophthalmologist also determines color sensation, examines the eyelids for demodex, and conducts functional tests of the lacrimal apparatus (determination of dry eye syndrome using the Schircher test). The vulnerability and complexity of the visual apparatus determine high requirements for both diagnoses of eye diseases and treatment measures. In the ophthalmologist's office, foreign bodies of the eyelids, conjunctiva, and cornea are removed; eyelid massage; peribulbar and subconjunctival injections; treatment for inflammation of the cornea and conjunctiva is prescribed.