Eyes and health
Diabetes, blood pressure, thyroid, pregnancy, medicines: what the rest of the body tells the eyes, and vice versa.
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Double vision: eye and neurological causes, and when it is an emergency
Covering one eye is the first step to understanding. If the double images disappear, the problem lies in the cooperation between the two eyes, and the…
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Eyesight getting worse with age: what is normal and what is not
The menu held at arm’s length, the lamp that is no longer enough, the headlights that dazzle. Which changes in eyesight are expected with the years,…
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Uveitis: what it is, the symptoms and the link with autoimmune diseases
A red eye that hurts and cannot bear light is not always conjunctivitis. What uveitis is, how to recognise it and why it so often leads…
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Thyroid and eyes: Graves’ orbitopathy, from puffy eyes to double vision
Swollen eyelids, bulging eyes, images that double: sometimes the thyroid is behind it. What Graves’ orbitopathy is, who is most at risk and what the European…
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Dry eyes and dry mouth: Sjögren’s syndrome
When dry eyes come with a dry mouth and a tiredness that does not go away, there may be an autoimmune disease. What Sjögren’s syndrome is,…
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High blood pressure and the eyes: what hypertensive retinopathy tells us
The retina is the only place in the body where blood vessels can be seen live. What high blood pressure leaves there, what it says about…
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Sudden loss of vision in one eye: when it is an emergency
An eye that goes dark all at once, without pain, perhaps only for a few minutes: it can be an eye stroke. Why you call 112,…
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Dry eye in menopause: why it happens
Many women notice drier eyes around the age of fifty. What role oestrogens and androgens play, what the studies say about hormone therapy and what we…
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Optic neuritis: symptoms, corticosteroids and the link with multiple sclerosis
Vision in one eye blurs and moving it hurts. What optic neuritis is, what corticosteroids do and how many people go on to develop multiple sclerosis,…
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Vision in pregnancy: normal changes and warning signs not to underestimate
Contact lenses that irritate, drier eyes, less sharp images: in pregnancy the eyes change. What is normal, what needs to be followed with diabetes and which…
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Medicines and eyes: the side effects worth knowing about
Corticosteroids, an arthritis medicine taken for years, a tablet for the prostate: medicines that seem far removed from the eyes and yet affect them. What studies…
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Migraine with aura: visual disturbances and when it is not migraine
A shimmering spot, zigzag lines, then the headache. What a visual aura looks like, why it starts in the brain and which signs suggest a stroke…