DRY EYES
Dry eyes can occur when you
are unable to produce enough tear fluid to lubricate your eyeballs.
Many people when they are old, they have mild dry eyes. But there are
cases that they suffer from very serious dry eyes that causes them to be very
uncomfortable. Dry eyes can be very frustrating as you will lose all your
interest in everything because you will experience very bad mood. There
was a woman who had very bad dry eyes came to our clinic and complained of dry
eyes.
She told us her story that she was asked to go to Gleneagles
Hospital to delivery her fourth child. The gynecologist suggested that she should opt for induced delivery
because her vagina was slightly opened. She was young did not know that
that was her fourth child, the delivery should be easy. Not suspecting that the gynae wanted to do
delivery in the daytime, also he could earn more money.
She checked into the hospital at 8 am, he gave her medicine to take and to chew in her month. The baby did not come. She was given Epidural to reduce her pain. The anesthesian was anxious to go home and the baby still was not ready to come at 5pm. So she was told to have a second to-up of Epidural and the anesthesian went home. After the second dose of Epidural, she felt numb and she felt very cold, her womb was numb that there was no contraction. She was also semi-conscious. And because there was no contraction, the womb cannot push the baby out. The doctor was nervous, and she could hear the nurses were calling her to push the baby out. Eventually the baby managed to come out. Everyone was relieved for the time being. Then she was sent to her ward. She was happy that she had another son. Her husband also never suspected anything would go wrong and went home happily at around 8pm. At about 11pm, the nurse on duty watched over her, and realize that she was bleeding. The nurse alerted the gynae, but he was too tired to come over. Until the nurse called him to tell him that the bleeding did not stop. He came eventually at around 3am to do a cauterization, and to give her blood transfusion urgently. She said that it was the blood transfusion that caused blood clots in her eyes that she subsequently had very bad dry eyes. She suspected that the blood transfusion was not properly defrosted due to the urgency.
After the episode, she had very bad dry eye, she suspected that it was caused by the un-defrosted blood transfusion. She said that her dry eyes were so bad that she wanted to close her eyes most of the time and could not read small words. Her mode was so bad that she could not attend to her new-borne child. To her the experience was a nightmare to her. She said that she was so sad that she wanted to commit suicide.
On recommendation, she came to our clinic, she was given
acupuncture for the first time. She
could feel that the tear was flowing down on her eyes and did feel less dry of
her eyes. She marveled at the miracle of
acupuncture. She came for acupuncture every week and took medication as well. She said she was happy that her dry eyes had
recovered about 95%.
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MYOPIA
Myopia, commonly known as short-sightedness,
has remained one of the biggest public health challenges in Singapore, which
has very high myopia rates. Myopia typically begins in early childhood and
progresses during childhood. Myopia
typically begins in early childhood and progresses during childhood.
Based on unpublished data from routine vision screening done by
the School Health Service, the prevalence of defective vision amounting to
unaided visual acuity of 6/12 or worse among Primary 1 students was 33% in the
year 2000, prior to the inception of the National Myopia Prevention Programme,
65% of Singapore students suffered from myopia by the age of 12 years. Among
these 12-year-old students, the prevalence of severe defective vision (i.e.
unaided visual acuity worse than 6/60) was 13% (unpublished data).
We have a few numbers of parents who care about their children’s eyesight, brought their young children to come for acupuncture and eye massage. Most of them have short-sightedness, some of them have high myopia. One of the mothers who has only one daughter was so caring that she refused to allow her daughter to read story books, instead she will read to her every night. She brought her daughter fortnightly to do acupuncture. Whenever they came, after the acupuncture, the mother will sit by her bed side to read story books to her, this went on for three long years. The feedback the mother gave was her high myopia was slightly decrease (usually, the myopia would jump every 3 months by 100 degrees).
Acupuncture and regular massage of one’s eyes can really prevent further increase in a person’s eyesight. Usually, children who are willing to do massage can be as early as 6 years old. But for acupuncture, only when they are 8 years old and on the parents’ persuasion, then they will be willing to do acupuncture.
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SQUINT EYES
Here are some of the pictures of squint eyes:
Some websites suggest surgery to correct the squint eyes.
Good news, we acupuncturists are able to correct their squint
eyes, only less than ten sessions of acupuncture will be able to see some good
effects.
We have done acupuncture for young kids and adults who suffer
from squint eyes. Depends on cases to
cases some of them without serious eye diseases, usually takes about less than ten
sessions of acupuncture to see some good results.
The reasons are that the eye balls are controlled by 6 ligaments, we adjust the tension of ligaments, the squint eyes can be rectified.
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- “Closed angle” glaucoma 闭角型青光眼—Closed angle glaucoma can appear suddenly and is often painful. If it is untreated it can lead to visual loss. One must seek medical attention immediately before permanent damage occurs.
- “Open angle” glaucoma 开角型青光眼--- Open angle glaucoma tends to progress at a slower rate and patients may not notice they have lost vision until the disease has progressed significantly. Very often raised intraocular pressure is a significant risk factor for developing glaucoma (intraocular pressure above 21 mmHg is considered as high 眼压高).
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