Diabetes and Eye Health
Learn how diabetes can impact your eyes, and what you can do to prevent or treat eye complications to protect your vision!
Taking good care of your eyes is especially important for people with type 1 diabetes. No matter what your blood sugar levels or A1c is, we all need annual eye exams to help us prevent eye complications and treat them as soon as possible to protect our vision.
Learn everything you need to know about how diabetes can impact your eyes, and what you can do to keep them healthy!
This portal on Eye Health was made possible through the ADA x BT1 Collab. To learn more about the importance of eye health for people living with diabetes, check out Focus on Diabetes on ADA’s website.
Eye Health Basics
As a person with diabetes (PWD), it’s important to have a specialized eye care team, starting with an optometrist. Yes,...
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As a person with diabetes, annual visits to your eye doctor are critical to catching the earliest stages of diabetes-related...
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Your annual diabetes eye exam can take anywhere between one to two hours because there are actually four parts to...
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As a person with diabetes, your annual eye exam is the best way to determine if your blood glucose (blood...
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Tips to Protect Your Eyes
Eye Complications
Glaucoma is usually related to pressure in your eyes that is higher than normal—and it’s more common in people with...
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Retinopathy is one of the most common and most serious diabetes-related eye complications. It’s actually the leading cause of preventable...
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One of the most common yet rarely talked about eye conditions in people with diabetes is dry eye, it affects...
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