Taking care of your eyes

Diabetes and your eyes: Tips for eye care²

Diabetes can affect your eyes and vision. Here are some tips to help prevent diabetic eye disease and preserve your vision:

• Check and manage your blood glucose levels with the help of your healthcare professionals.
• Work with your doctor to get your blood pressure under control.
• Stop smoking if you do.
• Get eye tests on a regular basis, at least once a year, even if your vision seems okay.
• See an eye care specialist if you have:
  • blurred or double vision
  • trouble reading signs or books
  • pain or pressure in one or both eyes
  • eye redness that doesn’t go away
  • trouble seeing things on the sides that you could see previously (loss of peripheral vision)
  • any other changes in vision.

² American Diabetes Association. (ADA) - Eye Care. Accessed online 24 June, 2018 @ http://www.diabetes.org/living-with-diabetes/complications/eye-complications/eye-care.html