Macular degeneration aids are among the most important things in the world to the people who have age related macular degeneration (AMD). As many as fifteen million people in the United States have this debilitating eye disease that can only be described as black holes in the middle of our sight screens. Only the peripheral vision is left, which means that TV and driving, and reading and many of the other joys most of us take for granted are no longer available. It is estimated that thirty five percent of all those over the age of seventy five has age related macular degeneration. This disease is the number one cause of legal blindness in America. The condition is caused when the inner layer of the eye becomes detached because of cellular debris accumulates between the retina and the choroid, which is the blood supply to the eye. There is enough pressure applied with this debris that the retina is actually detached. This is called dry macular degeneration and is the most common form of the disease. In the wet form, the retina also becomes detached, this time because of blood vessels that grow up from the choroid, also detaching the retina. This is will cause legal blindness. When Peter was writing to Christians, he reminded them that they were to have patience and kindness and temperance and virtue and love. Then he said that if a Christian didn't have these things he had a serious problem: "But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins." (II Peter 1: 9)
To keep from developing AMD and needing macular degeneration aids, vision experts suggest a person eat a diet rich in anti-oxidants with vitamins A, C and E. Too much of these vitamins can create a toxicity in the body so check with your health care provider to see what is right for you. Eating fish, which is rich in omega-3 fatty acids is very helpful as well as stopping the smoking habit is very helpful is lowering the risk of getting this disease. Additionally, regular eye exams every couple of years for those over forty is important and screening one's own vision at home with the Amsler grid is also important. But if the disease has already developed, then information on macular degeneration aids is helpful.
The aim for some of the devices made for age related macular degeneration deal with actually taking advantage of the sight hole that these sufferers have. Looking at pictures online of what AMD looks like will reveal that right in the middle of one's vision is a large round black or gray mass of nothing, but on both sides of the mass are fairly normal images. Some macular degeneration aids seek to magnify the patient's vision, thus pushing expanding the missed part of the image beyond the black hole. For example, looking with regular eyesight, an AMD sufferer might see a body but not the head and face of someone, but when the image is expanded, the face jumps out of the blind spot and the person can then be recognized or seen.
Hand held magnifiers are available to aid in helping images jump out of the blind spot that age related macular degeneration sufferers. These can be carried in a purse or pocket and some of them have battery powered lights for night viewing. For some older folks, their hands shake too much for these handheld magnifiers to be of much help. In cases like this, macular degeneration aids such as stand mounted magnifiers are available. These might sit right next to a person who is sitting in a chair, or perhaps another one might sit nicely on a desk. They can usually magnify an object between one and a half and twenty times.
It's important to understand that in many cases, age related macular degeneration also causes fuzzier vision along the periphery of the sight field. Magnifiers can enlarge print on a page but there is a problem viewing objects from a distance such as signs or TV. Only when objects are moved quite closely to the eye from a distance can sight be enhanced, which is the goal of other macular degeneration aids, such as bioptic telescopes. For many AMD sufferers, a bioptic telescope mounted to regular glasses frames allows the sufferer to switch from regular vision to magnified vision through the telescope. This is often accomplished with some macular degeneration aids through just lowering the eyes slightly to view the telescope lens.
Because of the high tech advances in optical assistance, there are now video magnifiers that are actually closed circuit televisions that project magnified objects onto a screen. These macular degeneration aids are more expensive than most of the other ocular assisting devices heretofore mentioned, but they are helpful in doing certain activities where both hands are required. There are now reading machines that can turn reading material into spoken words for those who have AMD as well as talking clocks and watches and talking measuring cups, kitchen scales and other culinary aids. By the year 2020, it is estimated that twenty million people in the United States will have some form of this eye vision loss, with no cure or reversible treatment on the horizon. This means that a person should take especially good care of their eyesight passed the age of forty.
To keep from developing AMD and needing macular degeneration aids, vision experts suggest a person eat a diet rich in anti-oxidants with vitamins A, C and E. Too much of these vitamins can create a toxicity in the body so check with your health care provider to see what is right for you. Eating fish, which is rich in omega-3 fatty acids is very helpful as well as stopping the smoking habit is very helpful is lowering the risk of getting this disease. Additionally, regular eye exams every couple of years for those over forty is important and screening one's own vision at home with the Amsler grid is also important. But if the disease has already developed, then information on macular degeneration aids is helpful.
The aim for some of the devices made for age related macular degeneration deal with actually taking advantage of the sight hole that these sufferers have. Looking at pictures online of what AMD looks like will reveal that right in the middle of one's vision is a large round black or gray mass of nothing, but on both sides of the mass are fairly normal images. Some macular degeneration aids seek to magnify the patient's vision, thus pushing expanding the missed part of the image beyond the black hole. For example, looking with regular eyesight, an AMD sufferer might see a body but not the head and face of someone, but when the image is expanded, the face jumps out of the blind spot and the person can then be recognized or seen.
Hand held magnifiers are available to aid in helping images jump out of the blind spot that age related macular degeneration sufferers. These can be carried in a purse or pocket and some of them have battery powered lights for night viewing. For some older folks, their hands shake too much for these handheld magnifiers to be of much help. In cases like this, macular degeneration aids such as stand mounted magnifiers are available. These might sit right next to a person who is sitting in a chair, or perhaps another one might sit nicely on a desk. They can usually magnify an object between one and a half and twenty times.
It's important to understand that in many cases, age related macular degeneration also causes fuzzier vision along the periphery of the sight field. Magnifiers can enlarge print on a page but there is a problem viewing objects from a distance such as signs or TV. Only when objects are moved quite closely to the eye from a distance can sight be enhanced, which is the goal of other macular degeneration aids, such as bioptic telescopes. For many AMD sufferers, a bioptic telescope mounted to regular glasses frames allows the sufferer to switch from regular vision to magnified vision through the telescope. This is often accomplished with some macular degeneration aids through just lowering the eyes slightly to view the telescope lens.
Because of the high tech advances in optical assistance, there are now video magnifiers that are actually closed circuit televisions that project magnified objects onto a screen. These macular degeneration aids are more expensive than most of the other ocular assisting devices heretofore mentioned, but they are helpful in doing certain activities where both hands are required. There are now reading machines that can turn reading material into spoken words for those who have AMD as well as talking clocks and watches and talking measuring cups, kitchen scales and other culinary aids. By the year 2020, it is estimated that twenty million people in the United States will have some form of this eye vision loss, with no cure or reversible treatment on the horizon. This means that a person should take especially good care of their eyesight passed the age of forty.
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