DOI: 10.36347/sasjm.2023.v09i09.020

Pages: 1018-1022

Treating the eye of a diabetic patient is a challenging task for an ophthalmologist as they deal with Diabetic Retinopathy (DR). Uncontrolled sugar levels further leads to complications making the challenge tougher for the ophthalmologist. To meet these challenges, the current article examines the role of homoeopathy on a large scale at the national level [9]. The article delves into the current status of DR at nation at global & national level. Thereafter moves to epidemiology of DR, diagnosis of DR, management of DR & the burden of DR in India. It sees what the homoeopathic system of medicine can offer to deal with DR cases & the burden of DR. On a large scale, the blindness prevention in public health centers on vitamin A prophylaxis or vitamin A prevention. All these efforts are done for the younger age group. Currently, vitamin A prophylaxis starts from the age of 9 months & goes on till the children complete 5 years of age. From the age 9 months one dose of vitamin A is given to the children every 6 months till they complete 5 years of age. So in all, 9 doses of vitamin A are given to U5 children [9, 10]. Other diseases like DR, cataract, refractive error & glaucoma also contribute to blindness, In recent times, there has been a rise of such cases of vision loss & it is essential to understand the cause. There is a clear link between uncontrolled sugar levels & retinopathy. This phenomenon leads to masking of vision related symptoms thus resulting in unexpected blindness cases. These are actually Diabetic Retinopathy cases [9, 10, 26].