If the entire nerve is destroyed, blindness results. If you have any of these symptoms, see your ophthalmologist immediately. There is no cure for glaucoma, but once it is diagnosed, there are several effectiveness treatments that will control the condition and prevent the risk of blindness. Treatment will have to be continued throughout your lifetime. Among the medications used to treat glaucoma are topical eye drops, which reduce or control the intraocular pressure in your eye.
Miotics increase the outflow of aqueous fluid from the eye.
Some of these include Isopto Carpine, Ocusert , Pilocar , and Pilopine . Epineprine compounds also increase the outflow of aqueous fluid. These include Epifrin and Propine . Other medications used to treat glaucoma are beta-blockers, which reduce the amount of aqueous fluid in the eye and include Betagan , Betimol , Betoptic , Ocupress , Optimpranalol , and Timoptic . Carbonic anhydrase inhibitors and alpha-adreneregic agonists also work to reduce the amount of aqueous fluid.