Many eye diseases are silent. We feel no pain or discomfort and the loss of vision is slow. Symptoms are not noticed by patients until significant permanent damage has occurred. Routine comprehensive eye care can easily prevent the loss of vision from many eye diseases. Our eyes are connected with the rest of our body through common vessels and nerves.
Many diseases have signs that are detected in the eyes.
It is common for eye care professionals to work with other health care providers when such diseases are detected and diagnosed. In fact eye signs may be the first indicators of a change in our general health. A comprehensive eye exam includes a vision and eye health evaluation. It involves dilation, which makes your pupil enlarged allowing your doctor to see all of your retina to check for glaucoma, macular degeneration, detachments and other eye diseases. The vision evaluation provides you with a glasses prescription.