Glaucoma

Glaucoma

In glaucoma the pressure in the eyeball gets too high, putting
pressure on fragile retina cells that do your seeing. The first
question to ask is: “Is my blood pressure too high?,” because
there is a link between high blood pressure and elevated eyeball
pressure.
Your blood pressure should be 120/80. Your doctor may say
140/85 is “not high.” He or she is kindly refraining from giving
you drugs until this level of pressure is reached. It is your tip-off,
though, that something is not right and you should correct it now,
when it is easy, and before other damage is done. Read the
section on high blood pressure (page 210) to learn how to reduce
it by going off caffeine, checking for cadmium poisoning from
your water pipes, and cleansing the kidneys (page 549). Even
though your doctor has explained how the tiny tube draining your
eyeball is too narrow, you should ask: was it not

too narrow before high blood pressure struck? Simply getting
your blood pressure to normal is sufficient help for beginning
glaucoma.