Drinking coffee often leads to glaucoma, daily health care for patients with glaucoma.

Coffee has always been a controversial drink. Studies have shown that drinking a small amount of coffee every day can reduce the risk of diabetes, gallstones and other diseases. However, in the case of long-term intake, large doses of caffeine become a drug, causing not only "caffeine poisoning", but also an increase in the incidence of glaucoma.

Drinking coffee often leads to glaucoma.

A recent issue of the Journal of Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science in the United States points out that drinking more than 3 cups of coffee a day greatly increases the risk of various eye diseases, especially glaucoma. The study selected 79000 female and 42000 male volunteers from the American Nurse Health tracking Survey and the Occupational Health tracking Survey. The final study found that people who drank more coffee were significantly more likely to develop exfoliative glaucoma or suspected glaucoma than those who did not drink coffee at all. More data show that Northern Europe, the region with the largest coffee consumption, also has the highest incidence of exfoliative glaucoma in the world.

Experts say drinking coffee can lead to the risk of glaucoma. And glaucoma patients must not drink coffee, because coffee is an irritating food, they will stimulate the nervous system, resulting in elevated intraocular pressure. Factors such as lack of sleep, overwork and emotional agitation can induce the onset of glaucoma.

Daily health care for patients with glaucoma

Experts said that glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness in human beings, with rapid onset and great harmfulness. With the aging of the population, the incidence of glaucoma is increasing year by year. Glaucoma patients need to pay attention to it in their daily life:

1. Cannot drink a large amount of water in a short time (especially in winter). Drinking more than one liter of water at a time will induce glaucoma symptoms; so drinking water at a time should not exceed 500 milliliters as far as possible, because drinking too much water at one time can cause hemodilution and decrease plasma osmotic pressure. make aqueous humor produce relatively increase, cause intraocular pressure to rise.

2. Avoid smoking, alcohol and strong tea. Excessive smoking, due to the role of nicotine can cause retinal vasospasm, leading to optic nerve ischemia, cyanide in tobacco can cause toxic amblyopia, harm visual function. Drinking a lot of alcohol can cause telangiectasia of the eyeball, aggravate congestion in the eyes, and even lead to acute attack of glaucoma. Although often drinking strong tea is beneficial to the function of urine, it is often overexcited, affecting sleep and causing an increase in intraocular pressure.

3. Try not to eat or eat less irritating food, such as chili, green onion, pepper and so on.