Diabetes and vision. A new triple combination delays and slows down vision damage in diabetes

If you live with diabetes, you probably already know about the risks of high blood sugar, diet, and insulin. But do you know that diabetes slowly and silently damages your vision? This is diabetic retinopathy – an eye disease that can lead to permanent vision loss. Diabetic retinopathy is damage to the small blood vessels…

How to protect the macula in patients with diabetes mellitus?

Diabetes mellitus is a disease that can cause serious damage to all organs in the human body. Diabetic retinopathy is one of the most severe complications of diabetes mellitus (Fig. 1). It is one of the leading causes of reduced vision, which can lead to complete blindness in people of active and advanced age. Currently,…

When eyes burn from within – why antioxidant protection is so important for the macula

Maria is 62 years old and has always loved to read. Every evening she falls asleep with a book in her hand, and her favourite weekend activity is looking through photo albums of her grandchildren. But a few years ago, she noticed something alarming – the letters started to blur, sometimes even to ‘move’, the…

MACUSHIELD: The triple protection for the macula that our eyes need today

As an eye doctor, I see hundreds of patients every year who come with the same fear in their eyes: “My vision isgetting worse… Is this macular degeneration?” The truth is, macular degeneration doesn’t appear suddenly. It starts quietly, slowly, almost imperceptibly.First, we lose contrast. Then, in the centre of vision, letters start to “blur”.…