Vision Problems and Autoimmune Disorders
Autoimmune disorders can affect any system and organs of our body, including our eyes.
Today found more than 80 different autoimmune disorders, and any of them may impact our vision.
If autoimmune disorder starts to involve eyes in a pathological process, patients begin to experience changes, such as cloudiness, blurriness, pain, dryness, or light sensitivity.
“There are several areas of the eye that are involved in autoimmune disease,” says ophthalmologist Alan H. Friedman, MD, clinical professor of ophthalmology and pathology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. Probably, due to common building blocks, like proteins and sugars in various organs and system, in parallel with one affected area of our body can be affected other area, including our eyes also.
One of the areas, involved in autoimmune process, could be retina. In this case, autoimmune process causes inflammation of the blood vessels in the back of the eyes, which cause autoimmune retinopathy with following vision problem.
The main Autoimmune Disorders linked to Vision Health are:
time that this change had been ascribed to multiple sclerosis. Was found, that sheathing of the retinal veins occurring away from the optic disk and without visible cause appears to represent an entity worthy of being regarded as a retinopathy of multiple sclerosis. (RETINOPATHY OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS*t C. WILBUR RUCKER, M.D. Rochester, Minn).
The development of cataracts of the eye is also associated with problems of the immune system. Even an age-related cataract is the result of a variety of patient's illnesses throughout his life, during which the immune system was involved.
Any operation on the eyes, can cause changes in the immune system, which then leads to the development of cataracts. Cataract development in these cases is facilitated by hyper production of pro-inflammatory cytokines, recurrent activation of autoimmune reactions by lens components and retinal S-antigen, when patient has also changes in the retina.
So, even with perfectly performed operations immuno-pathological reactions may prevent achieving the desired therapeutic effect.
To prevent retaliatory pathological processes in the eyes in patients with immunological diseases or the prevention of post-operative complications, an important role is played the immuno-corrective therapy by immunomodulatory, which allow to increase the lowered parameters and to weaken the hyper-activity, to restore the broken links of immunity, without affecting the normal parameters.
The use of pharmaceuticals, which or strengthen or suppress immunity, requires a careful dosage adjustment to bring the indemnity rates back to normal.
Unlike them, natural herbal medicine often include both stimulating and overwhelming actions in one herb. So, these medicinal plants have a peculiar mechanism of correction
Today found more than 80 different autoimmune disorders, and any of them may impact our vision.
If autoimmune disorder starts to involve eyes in a pathological process, patients begin to experience changes, such as cloudiness, blurriness, pain, dryness, or light sensitivity.
“There are several areas of the eye that are involved in autoimmune disease,” says ophthalmologist Alan H. Friedman, MD, clinical professor of ophthalmology and pathology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. Probably, due to common building blocks, like proteins and sugars in various organs and system, in parallel with one affected area of our body can be affected other area, including our eyes also.
One of the areas, involved in autoimmune process, could be retina. In this case, autoimmune process causes inflammation of the blood vessels in the back of the eyes, which cause autoimmune retinopathy with following vision problem.
The main Autoimmune Disorders linked to Vision Health are:
- Lupus. Symptoms include blurred vision, headaches, sore eyes, dry eyes, and sensitivity to light.
- Multiple sclerosis (MS). Initial symptoms are often include optic neuritis, which is a gradual or sudden loss of vision due to inflammation of the optic nerve. However, a distinctive sheathing of the veins in the retina of some
time that this change had been ascribed to multiple sclerosis. Was found, that sheathing of the retinal veins occurring away from the optic disk and without visible cause appears to represent an entity worthy of being regarded as a retinopathy of multiple sclerosis. (RETINOPATHY OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS*t C. WILBUR RUCKER, M.D. Rochester, Minn).
- Psoriasis can cause redness and pain in the eyes (conjunctivitis).
- Reiter’s syndrome can cause inflammation of the front part of the eye.
- Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) can cause dryness, inflammation of the white of the eye, thinning of the cornea, and other painful ocular conditions.
- Thyroid diseases with either high or low thyroid function increase the risk of glaucoma. With low-thyroid disorders, the eye may not be able to circulate its fluids effectively, causing pressure to build up from the inside.
- Type 1 diabetes can cause damage to the small blood vessels in the back of the eyes.
- Ulcerative colitis & Crohn’s disease can cause nonspecific inflammation of the eye.”
- Uveitis, an autoimmune disorder, which directly affects the pigmented cells of the iris in the eye, can cause inflammation, which can lead to blurred vision, “floaters,” and redness of the eye.
The development of cataracts of the eye is also associated with problems of the immune system. Even an age-related cataract is the result of a variety of patient's illnesses throughout his life, during which the immune system was involved.
Any operation on the eyes, can cause changes in the immune system, which then leads to the development of cataracts. Cataract development in these cases is facilitated by hyper production of pro-inflammatory cytokines, recurrent activation of autoimmune reactions by lens components and retinal S-antigen, when patient has also changes in the retina.
So, even with perfectly performed operations immuno-pathological reactions may prevent achieving the desired therapeutic effect.
To prevent retaliatory pathological processes in the eyes in patients with immunological diseases or the prevention of post-operative complications, an important role is played the immuno-corrective therapy by immunomodulatory, which allow to increase the lowered parameters and to weaken the hyper-activity, to restore the broken links of immunity, without affecting the normal parameters.
The use of pharmaceuticals, which or strengthen or suppress immunity, requires a careful dosage adjustment to bring the indemnity rates back to normal.
Unlike them, natural herbal medicine often include both stimulating and overwhelming actions in one herb. So, these medicinal plants have a peculiar mechanism of correction
