Diabetics to improve sight with oxygen equipment?
Oxygen equipment could be used by diabetics to help improve their vision, scientists have suggested.
Investigators at John Hopkins Medical Institution and the National Eye Institute noted oxygen therapy could disperse diabetic macular edema - a fluid build-up in the part of the eye that is responsible for central sight.
The study involved five diabetic patients with a persistent form of the disorder, who used oxygen apparatus over a three-month period.
In some cases, the sufferers' visual acuity was significantly enhanced.
Peter Campochiaro, senior author of the research and a professor of ophthalmology and neuroscience at the Wilmer Eye Institute at the John Hopkins faculty, said: "The results were really dramatic."
The findings of the study were published in the journal Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science.
Specialists from the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney have also suggested oxygen equipment is a safe and effective way for migraine sufferers to combat the condition.
Posted by Stewart Elliott
01/07/2010 16:26:38
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