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Hi .
Back again with a pile of some weird stuff. Diabetes .did you know? Shit I didn't . 

Diabetes. The name is enough. Everybody knows what it is . How to control it. 
I have a dozen blood relations suffering from diabetes mellitus.
Every time they see a doctor , he tells them that the *sugar* has gone high . They give him a *sweet smile* ( Due to hyperglycaemia , I believe) stating , oh doctor , you know how it is ... I just can't refrain from rice , I have eaten it twice everyday throughout my life . Changing habits is difficult. (So is changing diapers, but people do!)

They don't realise and mostly don't know what diabetes can cause . Harmful they know . But how much? The doctors thus don't take enough time to explain. Who cares? There are millions with the same disease . 

Honestly , I knew about generalised lesions diabetes can cause like candidiasis et al but ocular lesions in specific is what I never knew.
So did you? If you did , the blog ends here. The rest , I know you have a dear one suffering, yet gulping that ice cream.

Here they are:
Changes in refraction :
Hypermetropia ( in hypoglycaemia)
myopic shift ( in hyperglycaemia)
Decreased accommodation 

Eyelids :
 Stye 
internal hordeolum  
recurrent Stye 
 
Conjunctiva :
Telengectasia
Sub conjunctival haemorrhage 

Cornea :
-Delayed healing due to basement membrane abnormality
-Corneal sensations are decreased due to trigeminal neuropathy
-Infective corneal ulcers
-Punctate keratopathy
-Descements folds

Iris :
Rubeosis iridis

Lens:
Snow flaked cataract
Posterior subcapsular cataract
Early maturation of senile cataract

Vitreous:
Vitreous haemorrhage 
 
Retina :
Diabetic retinopathy 
Lipeamia retinalis

Intraocular pressure :
Increased incidence of POAG (glaucoma)

Optic nerve :
Optic neuritis

Extra ocular muscles :
Opthalmoplegia
 
This is tiring 
Good night people!






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