What is Glaucoma? Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of permanent blindness around the world that is preventable. This disease takes away the sense of sight slowly and there are no warning signs most of the time. The damage caused is permanent and cannot be reversed. With the correct eye care there will be little vision loss. Glaucoma is caused by the pressure inside the eye being elevated causing lack of blood flow to …showed first 75 words of 1380 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1380 total…on a regular basis. The effects of glaucoma to me are similar to the way a water balloon lets the water out of a pinhole. If the hole is too small then the water will not drain fast. That is how the eye is. The difference between the two is that one will eventually pop. The eye will not because it is stronger. The pressure will build until there is damage to the optic nerve