Often, when a patient visits eye clinics, and the eye doctor is through with the examination and proceeds to recommend glasses only, there is this common question that most patients still ask,
” Doctor, are you not giving me any drugs or medication?“ Certainly, someone close to you or even you may have inquired about this from an Optometrist.
This blog post will answer this common and reoccurring question as we will explore eye conditions that may not require any medication or drugs to address.
CATEGORIES OF VISION PROBLEMS
It may interest you to know that problems with the eyes or vision can be either of the following:
- Refractive
- Pathological
- Rehabilitative
- Combination
REFRACTIVE: Refractive eye or vision problems mainly require glasses to address or, in very few cases, eye surgery. We will be focusing more on this aspect during this post.
PATHOLOGICAL: This vision or eye problem requires drugs or surgery to address. They affect the surrounding tissues of the eyes, eyeballs, eye muscles, eyelids, and eye sockets, and they may include cataracts, glaucoma, dry eyes, conjunctivitis, uveitis, and much more.
REHABILITATIVE: This requires training, therapies, or adaptation to address. It restores eye function or improves vision with various eye injuries or conditions. Examples are low vision rehabilitation, vision therapy, orthoptics, etc.
COMBINATION: This is the last but not the least. As the name implies, you can guess what it entails already. For clarity, it is the combination of all the conditions. It means a patient may have both a refractive and pathological case; therefore, glasses and medications or drugs would address their vision problems or have all three categories.
So, when an Optometrist, after a thorough examination, makes a diagnosis, it usually falls amongst one of these categories. Therefore, treatment plans depend on which of these categories the diagnosis falls under.
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Thank you so much Doctor for this clarification.
I’m hoping mine can be permanently corrected. Wearing glasses not really convenient for me, once the frame expands I can’t use it as it’s dropping off 😂.