Get informed about diabetic eye complications and what you can do to decrease your risk of developing them.

Diabetic Eye Complications

Seeing the Light Tips for Diabetic Eye Care - There's good news and bad news when it comes to diabetes and your vision. The bad news is that people with diabetes do have a higher risk of blindness. The good news is that with proper diabetic eye care, most people with diabetes experience nothing more than minor eye disorders.

Diabetic Retinopathy - High blood sugar and blood pressure - two health problems often caused by diabetes, may cause damage to various areas of the body over a period of time. Because blood vessels and nerves are prevalent throughout the body, blood sugar and blood pressure levels that are left unregulated have the potential to cause severe damage to an area of the body where damaged blood vessels or nerves are located. The effects of the damage primarily depend on the extent of the damage and the types of blood vessels and nerves that were affected. An area of the body that is susceptible to develop complications associated with diabetes is the eye. A condition commonly known and diabetic retinopathy is characterized by the deterioration of blood vessels in the retina, which in turn leads to widespread eye damage and vision problems.