Is it dangerous if some1's eye pressure is 38? is it 2 high?

Question

my mums eye pressure is 38 and she wanted 2 know if its dangerous like if she might loose her eyesight i hope not! :(

Answer 1

Your mum must go to her local eye hospital/ward immediately. Her pressures should not be that high. She'll need drops to lower them (the pressures). If the pressures aren't lowered it will put pressure on her optic nerves, which can/will kill her optic nerves resulting in blindnees which sadly can't be reversed.

I'm sorry for this grim news, and I hope she gets them sorted out very soon.

Answer 2

Although the norm is less than 20, there are some individuals who have a high pressure tolerance.  Glaucoma is a disease that affects the optic nerve.  When Pressure in the eye builds up the optic nerve gets pushed on and damage begins.  If your pressure was 38 and there are no signs of nerve damage then you are fine.  This is also true for low pressure.  There are some people who have an average pressure of say 12 and have horrible nerve damage.  Just get checked annually at the least.

Answer 3

I agree with footprintz.  38 is high and she should be under treatment.  High eye pressure can lead to glaucoma and eventually vision loss if left untreated.  There are drops, though, that can keep pressures down, so hopefully she is seeing a doctor to follow up on this.

Answer 4

Normal, whatever that means, pressures for eyes runs between 10 and 22. 95% of people who's pressures fall within that range do NOT get damage to their optic nerve as a consequence of that 'high' pressure.

If the pressure is over 30, 95% DO get glaucoma. The name of the glaucoma depends on the reason the drain of the eye isn't filtering the fluid. The eye MAKES fluid inside itself, and that fluid DRAINS at the same rate it's made. If the rate of drainage is slowed down, then the pressure goes up till the fluid is FORCED out at that new, elevated pressure, and at the same rate it's being made.

If that new pressure is too high for the nerve, the nerve, which is the axons of the nerve cells in the retina, get's slowly damaged...

Since the nerve fibers that come from the front/side part of the eye enter the nerve at the sides, and the more central axons enter the nerve more near the center of the nerve, as the damage occurs, one loses the vision at the sides. The FIELD becomse more narrow. It sort of does it in a specific way that can be picked up by doing a field test.

The treatment varies depending on where you are. Europe...does surgery earlier than in the US. But we have attorneys, so we do drops first... as no one wants to get sued for operating on an eye, a fairly normal eye, then it gets sicker and dies and...well...not good. But they feel it's cruel and harsh to put someone on drops the rest of their lives 2-5 times a day, when a simple surgical proecedure with fairly low risk can control the pressure.

Your Mum HAS GLAUCOMA.

As my granddaughter says, "she needs to fith it!"

Answer 5

Normal pressure should be between 10 - 21...so 38 is very high.

I hope she is under the care of a Dr. who is monitoring and treating that.

Answer 6

i dont know