What Causes Blindness?
Jeremiah Alexander
What Cause Blindness...
Cataracts-This eye disease is basically when your eyes starts to get like cloudy and effect your eyes. People who are going blind usually deal with vision impairment which turns into blindness.
Glaucoma-Glaucoma is a surrounding of diseases that damage the eye if its worst it can cause vision loss and turn into blindness.
Age-Relation Macular Degeneration-Another name for this common disease is AMD.its an eye disease that can lead to vision loss to adults age 50
The last common disease is Diabetic Retinopathy when diabetes damage the tiny blood vessels and the retina it can happen at the back of the eye.People who are going blind deal with vision impairment which also turns into blindness.you can protect your eye from diabetes if you get an eye exam once per year if you got diabetes.the blood vessels in the retina can negatively be affected by diabetes causing vision loss through bleeding and damage t the retina.Half of 18 million americans who have diabetes are affected by diabetic retinopathy.Macular degeneration affected more than 10 million americans.2.3 million people are diagnosed by glaucoma.