Coping with Glaucoma - Softcover

Edith Marks; Rita Montauredes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 089529804X ISBN 13: 9780895298041

Publisher: Avery, 1997

Synopsis

In Coping With Glaucoma, Edith Marks and Rita Montauredes offer a clear and easy-to-use guide to understanding and living with this sometimes unpredictable condition. They cover all aspects of the disease: the different types of glaucoma; what happens to the eye affected by glaucoma; and the connections between glaucoma and other conditions, such as cataracts, diabetes, and high blood pressure. Using nontechnical language, they explain the tests and procedures used to diagnose and monitor glaucoma - what they are, what they involve, and what they show - and provide important information on the medications used, including the best way to administer them for greatest effectiveness with fewest side effects. Other treatments, including laser therapy and surgical approaches, are discussed as well.
Coping With Glaucoma also contains a wealth of practical advice on other issues of concern, including how to choose a doctor; how to work with your doctor to ensure the best possible management of the condition; how to protect and care for your eyes every day; how to use nutrition, lifestyle changes, and alternative approaches to promote eye health; ways to reduce and cope with stress; and ways to work around the limitations that glaucoma imposes so that you can maximize your quality of life.

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What the Critics Have to say about the book: COPING WITH GLACOMA

A Gift

Thanks so much for writing the book COPING WITH GLAUCOMA. It has been very important to me; much gratitude and thanks for the gift you've brought us. Danahy Sharonrose

Acessible

In easy to understand language the book highlights medications and procedures used to treat and diagnose glaucoma. Glaucoma Research Foundation.

Much Needed

The book is excellent. I believe this book should be available in medical offices and libraries for the general public. Nurses and doctors dealing with glaucoma should read it. It is comprehensive, well-written, informative and discusses alternative methods that allow patients or clients to participate in their treatment and help themselves. It is a much needed resource book. Marian Lewton-Brain, R.N., Nurse Midwife, Msc.

Unusually Comprehensive

COPING WITH GLAUCOMA is unusually comprehensive and well-researched with the added weight of the authors' own experiences in coping with this serious eye disease. They have provided invaluable information and advice for glaucoma sufferers everywhere. The Townsend Letter for Doctors. June, l998 Finally a comprehensive book for glaucoma patients is now available;is a meaty and compassionate book for people suffering from glaucoma.

In-Depth

Marks: volume presents an in-depth discussion in plain language. Another way in which this book is unique Marks explains, "is the chapter on nutrition. Optometrists tend to be more open to nutrition as a form of treatment than ophthalmologists are. 20/20. March, l998

Valuable

I have just finished reading you book COPING WITH GLAUCOMA and think it is excellent. It is both nteresting and educational, which don't always go together. I think you have performed a very admirable and valuable service. Homer Rees

Important Project

Thank you for sending me a copy of your very nice book COPING GLAUCOMA WITH, and congratulations on finishing this important project. There really is a dearth of information about glaucoma for patients, and I truly believe this will be a helpful resource for individuals affected with glaucoma. Peter A. Netland, M.D., Ph.D., Assoc. Prof., Director of Glaucoma.

Wonderful

What a wonderful book for anyone. Ruth Dans

Highly Recommended

Highly recommended for both consumer health and professional collections. Sue Hollander, UIC Lib. Of the Health Sciences, Library Journal.

Thoroughgoing

Both Marks and Montauredes have the disease, and their thoroughgoing book is the result of personal experiences and their quests for information. William Beatty, Booklist

Wealth of Information

It contains a wealth of information, both basic and clinical, concerning all aspects of glaucoma. Dr. William Bengelsdorf, North County Times, l0/12/97

Choosing A Doctor

I found it (COPING WITH GLAUCOMA) thorough and comprehensive. I particularly appreciated the section on choosing a doctor. Bernard Schwartz, M.D., Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Ophthalmology.

Important

This important and fact-filled book will help thousands to have a better understanding of glaucoma. Lorraine R. Marchi, Founder, Executive Director, National Association for the Visually Handicapped.

Comprensive

This is the best written, most comprehensive book available on coping with glaucoma. It contains valuable practical information not available in any other single source. Ben C. Lane, Director, Nutritional Optometry Institute.

Solid Information

Comprehensive and solid information for the person living with glaucoma. Ms. Marks and Ms. Montauredes have clearly done their homework. Tara Steele, Executive Director, Glaucoma Research Institute.

Excellent

Edith Marks provides an excellent explanation of why mass glaucoma screenings are so Important and why managing this disease means more than a simple intraocular pressure check. Dick Hellner, President, Prevent Blindness America.

Clear and Concise

This book provides the reader with a comprehensive and accurate overview of many simple and complex medical conditions, diagnostic tests, and eye operations in a clear and concise way, so that it can be easily understood by the lay person. Mollie Hyman, M.S., Registered Dietitian and Glaucoma Patient.

A Must

This book is a must for African Americans who have glaucoma. I know from my own experience with family that glaucoma is four to five times more prevalent in people of my race. Edith Marks has done a remarkable job in bringing this information to the public. Beverly Johnson, Supermodel.

Extraordinary

Edith Marks writes with an extraordinary balance of intelligence, respect, and empathy. Until now, there has been no source for persons with glaucoma to use to educate themselves as to accurate medical details, the risks and benefits of standard treatments, and the complementary methods available that allow patients to help themselves. Barbara Friedman, Attorney and Glaucoma Patient.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

This is a story about the "silent thief of sight, an insidious eye disease that strikes without warning, without symptoms. Fifty million people worldwide have glaucoma, and as the population both grows in numbers and lives longer, the incidence of the disease is on the rise. And yet, for some reason, it has not become a part of our collective public health consciousness.

Not yet, that is. Now, Edith Marks, with Rita Montauredes, has brought out, at last, the first comprehensive treatment of the subject of glaucoma written for the general public. As fate would have it, her book arrives in, and in turn advances, a period of unprecedented public attention to this shy, sly disease. Public personalities, including President George Bush, have begun to speak out. Nationwide media attention was drawn to the sudden retirement from major league baseball of Minnesota Twins all star Kirby Puckett, who at the age of thirty-five discovered he had glaucoma.

In this book you will find more information about glaucoma than can be found in any other single source for the lay reader. Ms. Marks starts at the beginning and takes us through a thorough discussion of her subject, encompassing a vivid description of the miracle that is the eye, a survey of the many kinds of glaucoma, a review of the diagnostic tools doctors use, and the wide array of treatments available, from eye drops to lasers to surgery.

This book is more than informative it provides the energetic, positive outlook that is in fact quite important to the glaucoma patient's management of the disease. Perhaps this vital dimension arises not only from Mrs. Marks' ability as a writer but also from her and her colleague's personal interest in the subject. Ms. Marks has already lost a portion of her eyesight, and Ms. Montauredes has lost most of hers to this disease. You will find in this book not only the facts and figures of glaucoma, but the courageous example set by its author, as she responded to her sudden challenge with a determination to help others through research, writing, organizing, and conducting support groups, and, most of all, showing us how glaucoma patients can take charge and help to save their own eyesight.

Hopefully, coming as it does amid increasing public interest in the disease, this book will also help to inspire the a majority of our population who have never been to an eye doctor, or who haven't been in a long time, to have regular eye exams. A glaucoma test is simple, painless, and quick. It can save your sight. Edith Marks tells us all about in the pages of Coping With Glaucoma.

Edition details

• Publisher: Avery
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 089529804X
• ISBN 13: 9780895298041
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304