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They say the eyes are the windows to our souls. But if the pressure in your eyeballs is threatening to burst, those windows will soon shatter. Doesn’t that sound terrible? Fortunately, if you have experienced eye pressure, you don’t need to worry about your peepers being popped. Enter the medication Xalatan drops. What is Xalatan? [...]
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The growing recognition of the complex relationship between the eye and the brain has led researchers to change their view of glaucoma from an eye disease to a disease of the brain – a neurodegenerative disease. Glaucoma has much in common with other degenerative brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, except that the specific [...]
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According to the Glaucoma Research Foundation, drinking coffee can increase intraocular eye pressure (fluid pressure between the lens and the cornea inside the eye). The more caffeinated coffee you consume, the higher your eye pressure rises. This can be of concern to those with open angle glaucoma, a serious eye disorder in which high intraocular [...]
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