Is there anyway of curing blindness?

Question

Hi , i was wondering if there was a person who was blind if there a chance of him/her getting surgery or a drug to fix it. Such as some retinal surgery or replacing a nerve, no matter what the financial cost is.?

Answer 1

My guess would be in about 5 years' time it will be possible.

Answer 2

Blindness is a lack of vision. It may also refer to a loss of vision that cannot be corrected with glasses or contact lenses.

    * Partial blindness means you have very limited vision.

    * Complete blindness means you cannot see anything and do not see light.

People with vision worse than 20/200 are considered legally blind in most states in the United States.

Blindness has many causes. In the United States, the leading causes are diabetes, glaucoma, macular degeneration, and accidents (such as chemical burns or sports injuries).

Worldwide, the leading causes of blindness are cataracts, onchocerciasis (river blindness), trachoma, leprosy, and vitamin A deficiency.

Diabetic retinopathy includes microaneurysms, hemorrhages, exudates, and macular edema occurring with diabetes of at least several years' duration. Vision rarely decreases until late in the disease. Diagnosis is by funduscopy; further details are elucidated by fluorescein angiography. Treatment includes controlling diabetes and laser coagulation of threatening lesions.

Age-related macular degeneration is atrophy or degeneration of the macula. It is a common cause of worsening central vision in elderly patients. Funduscopic findings are diagnostic; fluorescein angiography assists in directing treatment. Treatment is with laser photocoagulation and low-vision devices.

Consult an Ophthalmologist.

Answer 3

Some causes of blindness are treatable, but nerve tissue from the retina or the optic nerve is not currently repairable.

Answer 4

Some blindness is cured by surgery and others not invented yet.  It all depends on what has caused the blindness, be it nerve damage or retina or cataracts or something else...

Answer 5

Cataract removal surgery; and Glaucoma surgery;

Hope for a cure has been extended to millions of blind people, thanks to a new surgical technique that has successfully returned sight to blind mice

Photoreceptor loss is believed to be responsible for more blindness in the developed world than all other eye diseases combined.

The mice were implanted with immature retinal cells, similar to stem cells, which had been extracted from newborn mice whose eyesight was developing. The transplanted cells developed into fully functioning photoreceptors that successfully connected to nerves leading to the brain

The initial tests involved 'rod' cell transplants -- those that control peripheral and night vision. Transplanting 'cone' cells -- those that control color and detail -- would greatly improve results.

The technique is still in its infancy, but there is reason to believe that human photoreceptor transplants will occur within ten years, researchers note.

http://health.dailynewscentral.com/conte...

Answer 6

pray to God about it