March 1, 2022 - EyeClarity Podcast
Retinal Detachment is something that affects a lot of people and requires surgery to deal with. Today we are covering what retinal detachment is, what causes it, and how to recover post-surgery. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.
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Hello, everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I’d like to welcome you to another EyeClarity Podcast. Today I’m going to talk about retinal detachment. And I bring this up because one of the students in my six week intensive, has been dealing with post surgery of retinal detachment. In fact, she had two surgeries. And I went over what can be done after you have had the surgery? And let me make no state mistake about it. You definitely need surgery. If you’re right that detaches. Now, what causes retinal detachment? is I get this question a lot. And there are a variety of factors I think one of the factors is being nearsighted and and so if you’re moderately to high, near sighted, have a near sighted prescription, I would say anything over minus four, you’re going to have a higher risk of developing retinal detachment because what happens in a retinal detachment is as the eyeball changes its shape. It can start to cause the retina to thin.
And if the retina is already weak, and I’ll talk about reasons why the retina may be weak, then you’re definitely more risk for developing some kind of retinal whole retinal detachment. In addition, I also feel that if you’ve had head trauma, if you’re under a lot of visual stress, if you suffer systemic inflammation these are some of the reasons why the retina comes away from the rest of the eyeball. In my practice, one of the biggest reasons I see retinal detachment has to do with a fluid buildup behind the eye. And this has to do with conditions like what macular degeneration or hyper retinopathy is like diabetic retinopathy or hypertensive retinopathy.
Whenever you start getting a fluid build up behind the retina, you definitely are more risk for a part of the retina to break away or in terms of traction, pull away. And if that were to happen, you will start to see flashes of light, you might start to see a curtain come over your eye. And that is a sight threatening condition you want to get yourself to the nearest local ophthalmologist and get it put back and there are a lot of different ways now that surgeries are done. You’re going to need to go through a post operative period of rest. And once you you know get through all of the surgical procedures and you know all of that all of those situations. My recommendation and that’s what I told this student of mine. It’s really important that you are taking the Quran noids lutein, Xanthan and asked to xantham you know I talk about these a lot. These are the carotenoids that are pigments that protect not only the macula, but also the retina. The to plant carotenoids, lutein and zeaxanthin. You can get those from your rainbow vegetables. And the acid Xanthine is a marine carotenoids.
So you can either have to get that through seafood, especially the pink seafood like salmon, or shrimp. And if you don’t want to go that route, you can do micro algae, acid Xanthine, supplements, omega three fatty acids, you know, there’s so many of my patients, I’ll say, Well, are you taking regular omega threes? And they say no. Well, yeah, you know, so they, they do it for a while and they they stop but make no mistake about it. Omega threes are so important. We don’t we don’t produce those in our body. So the DHA and the EPA part of the Omega three is so important for a variety of different conditions, dry eye, glaucoma, cataracts. So in terms of prevention, also, Omega three is so important for brain health, our nervous system, and it acts as such a strong anti inflammatory agent, you have to consider omega threes.
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I also think things like vitamin C, bilberry, gingko, trans, resveratrol, saffron, curcumin, these are all things that either you want to include in your diet, or through supplementation. Again, you want to really boost the antioxidants. The retina has one of the highest metabolic needs of the body. And for most people, they’re in a starvation state in Their eyeballs. And that’s part of why the tissue breaks down. And why we get all these, you know, eye conditions and eye diseases, because we’re just living in a starvation state and the dehydration state. So including these, they help improve circulation, they boost antioxidants. And it’s just a no brainer, you have to take better care of your diet and nutrition. wearing blue blocking glasses or getting a blue blocking shield is so important. And if you don’t do that, it really dries out the retina. And if you do wear prescription, you need to be careful, are you using a single vision lens or progressive lens? Again, I don’t feel using a progressive lens is the right optical system. If you’re doing hours of screen time, you’re better off using his single vision lens. And my eye exercises. I have seen time and time again, when people start doing my eye exercises regularly.
Their eyes are moisture, they’re more moist, they’re seeing more clearly, they have less tension and stress. So it’s it’s really important to do these eye exercises. You know, if you think about how much time we’re on the screens, and we’re focused at one distance for long periods of time. We need to move and use our eyes in a variety of different ways. And when we do that, we create more flexibility and versatility in the eye brain connection. So retinal detachment is a scary syndrome. It’s a scary disease that can occur. Again, you can be proactive by, you know nutritionally taking better care of yourself reducing your visual stress, doing my eye exercises, being conscious of the kind of lens prescription you might be wearing. And if it does happen, there are things that you can do afterwards to reduce the aftershock. So it doesn’t happen again. So that’s our show for today. I want to thank you so much for tuning in. Until next time, take care.
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