What Eye Exam Should I Have If I Have Diabetes?

People with diabetes are more susceptible to retinal disorders, so it's important to have complete eye exams. Ophthalmologist David Demartini, MD, explains in this video.

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If you have diabetes, you should have a complete eye exam. Which means starts with vision, and intraocular pressure, and goes all

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the way through glasses and dilation. And to be sure that there's no problems developing in the back of the eye. The diabetics have

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a lot of problems with retina, where the retina will get hemorrhages or little strokes, or even bleeding in the back of the eye, and

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sometimes even new blood vessels. We wanna pick that up early so that we can stop it before it progresses on. As near as 30 years

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ago, there was a lot of loss of vision from diabetes. But now with our new modern technologies and techniques, we pick up early stages

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of diabetes, and we can treat that with a lot of the new medicines, and some of the laser treatments that can be done. So we don't

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lose vision, and lose eyes like it used to be done back in the 50s or even the 60s.