GLACOMA is CAUSED by increased fluid pressure in your eye.
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"Lost
me Eye to Glaucoma, not to Pirates! Aint life funny."
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To keep their shape, your eyes are filled with a clear
fluid like an egg. But to prevent stagnation and infection
this eye fluid is changed regularly. It is made and secreted
deep in your eye, washes over your lenses and then flows out of the
eye through channels by the iris. Normally this production
and removal system are balanced.
In Glaucoma this balance is lost. It is associated with age
degeneration of the outlet channels preventing fluid from escaping.
This increases the pressure in the eyeball making it hard and painful.
