Diabetic Eye Disease Symptoms

Signs and symptoms
... In the early, most treatable stages of diabetic retinopathy, you usually experience no visual symptoms or pain. The disease can even progress to an advanced stage without any noticeable change in your...

Causes
... If you have diabetes, your body doesn''t use sugar (glucose) properly. Sugar in your blood is vital to your health because it''s a main source of energy for your body''s cells. But too much sugar in y...

Diabetic Eye Disease Treatment

Complications
... The abnormal growth of new blood vessels in proliferative diabetic retinopathy doesn''t resupply the retina with a normal blood flow. Instead, these vessels may produce other complications: Vitreous h...

Treatment
... If you have mild nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy, you may not require treatment right away. However, your eye doctor will want to closely monitor your retina. Proliferative diabetic retinopathy ...

Diabetic Eye Disease Other

Overview
... Diabetes affects your body from head to toes. This includes your eyes. The most common and most serious eye complication of diabetes is diabetic retinopathy, which may result in poor vision or even bl...

Diabetic Retinopathy
... Diabetic retinopathy is an eye condition that affects people with diabetes. It occurs as a result of high blood glucose, or sugar, that people with diabetes often have over a prolonged period of time....