What Can You Do To Protect Your Vision?
If you are being treated for glaucoma, be sure to take your glaucoma medicine every day and see your eye care professional regularly.
You can also help protect the vision of family members and friends who may be at high risk for glaucoma--Blacks over age 40 and everyone over age 60. Encourage them to have an eye examination through dilated pupils every two years.
For more information about glaucoma:
Glaucoma Awareness
Information on the yearly observance that hopes to raise awareness of glaucoma.
Glaucoma
Information on the risk factors for developing Glaucoma.
American Academy of Ophthalmology
655 Beach Street
San Francisco, CA 94109-7424
(415) 561-8500
http://www.eyenet.org
American Optometric Association
243 Lindbergh Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63141
(314) 991-4100
AmOptCCC@aol.com
http://www.aoanet.org
(The) Glaucoma Foundation
33 Maiden Lane
New York, NY 10038
1-800-452-8266
(212) 285-0080
glaucomafdn@mindspring.com
http://www.glaucoma-foundation.org/info
Glaucoma Research Foundation
200 Pine Street, Suite 200
San Francisco, CA 94104
1-800-826-6693
(415) 986-3162
http://www.glaucoma.org
National Eye Institute
2020 Vision Place
Bethesda, MD 20892-3655
(301) 496-5248
2020@nei.nih.gov
http://www.nei.nih.gov
Prevent Blindness America
500 East Remington Road
Schaumburg, IL 60173
1 (800) 331 -2020
(847) 843-2020
http://prevent-blindness.org
Tips on Talking to Your Doctor
National Eye Institute
National Institutes of Health
NIH Publication No. 99-651
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