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The director of public relations at the Saudi Society of Ophthalmology, a consultant ophthalmologist, Dr. Wassim Abdulaziz Alem, a specialist in corneal and cataract surgeries and vision correction operations, warned against going to pharmacies and requesting diagnosis and treatment from the pharmacist without a prescription, indicating that a number of eye s he found with a number of patients It actually caused blindness because it contains “cortisone” and said: “The pharmacist’s prescription of a number of eye treatments without consulting an ophthalmologist will worsen the patient’s condition and lead to blindness, if used for long periods and without medical follow-up.”
A scientist who works as a teacher at the Faculty of Medicine at Taibah University called for the necessity of examining children''s eyes before the age of two years and at the age of 4 years and finally before entering the school in order to make sure that there is no weakness in vision or around and other eye diseases, which will lead to laziness and difficulty in the eye Treated later, stressing the importance of early detection of vision defects in children. He noted the need to visit an ophthalmologist for those who did not visit him, in light of the presence of some diseases that do not have symptoms that affect the eye until they reach advanced stages that are difficult to treat then, such as glaucoma or glaucoma. He referred to some causes of eye diseases such as genetic factors such as glaucoma, keratoconus and some diseases that affect the retina and optic nerve, and other causes such as diabetes, or noticing a change in the level of vision, eye pain or redness, and persistent headache.
