What to do about retinal arteriosclerosis? Common treatments include these

Retinal arteriosclerosis is a common disease among the elderly. In daily life, we should pay attention to supplementing vitamins, reduce eye use, and prevent retinal arteriosclerosis. One of the most common symptoms is poor vision. The elderly should eat more vegetarian food and less greasy food.

1. Precautions for retinal arteriosclerosis

Go to an ophthalmologist every six months or a year to check your vision and fundus. If you find that a large number of black floating objects in the form of flocs, flakes, or strips suddenly appear in front of your eyes, you should go to an ophthalmologist for treatment immediately. Secondly, if you find fixed dark areas or black shadows blocking your field of vision, you should see an ophthalmologist promptly.

2. Treatment of retinal arteriosclerosis

(1) Retinal vascular sclerosis needs to be treated fundamentally by improving the liver, spleen and kidney functions, unblocking blood flow to the eyes, accelerating ocular microcirculation, and using conservative Chinese medicine treatments to control recovery in the short term. Simple physiological arteriosclerosis of the elderly, and the other situation is retinal arteriosclerosis occurring on the basis of systemic disease. The former is more common among people over 50 years old. Maintaining good living habits will generally not cause damage to eyesight. The severity and rapidity of the latter's fundus lesions are related to the extent and progression of systemic lesions. When the fundus lesions caused by these systemic diseases develop to a certain extent, they will cause damage to visual function, and active treatment measures need to be taken in a timely manner.

(2) People with three high diseases are at high risk

Diabetic patients, those with retinal arteriosclerosis, and high-risk groups have some complications themselves, so in daily life, they should quit smoking and drinking, maintain a good living condition, eat a light diet, and exercise more.

3. Dietary adjustment delays retinal arteriosclerosis

(1) Hawthorn soup: Hawthorn has the effects of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, dilating coronary arteries, lowering blood pressure and blood lipids, and preventing atherosclerosis. Take five to ten grams a day, decoct it into a soup and take it in divided doses or drink it as tea. Take one dose per day, and one course of treatment is twenty days.

(2) Vinegar peanuts: Peanuts have the effects of lowering blood pressure, stopping bleeding, lowering cholesterol, and preventing arteriosclerosis. Soak raw peanuts with red skin in vinegar. Add an appropriate amount of brown sugar to the vinegar. Soak for a week and then you can eat them. Eat ten peanuts each morning and evening. A course of treatment is thirty days.

(3) Garlic: Garlic has antibacterial effects and is also effective for treating hypertension and atherosclerosis. Eat one large clove raw per day.