Your Sight Matters
Find a Location
  • Healthy Vision
    • Comprehensive Eye Exams
    • Diabetes and Eye Care
    • Protect Your Vision
    • Eye Health FAQs
  • Cataracts
    • What Is a Cataract?
    • Cataract Symptoms
    • What Causes Cataracts?
    • Preventing Cataracts
    • How Do I Treat Cataracts?
    • What is the Cost of Cataract Surgery?
    • Questions to Ask Your Cataract Surgeon
  • Glaucoma
    • What is Glaucoma?
    • How Do I Treat Glaucoma?
  • Eye Conditions
    • Cataracts
    • Corneal Dystrophy
    • Corneal Infections
    • Diabetic Retinopathy
    • Droopy Eyelids (Ptosis)
    • Dry Eye
    • Keratoconus
    • Macular Degeneration
    • Periocular Skin Cancer
    • Pink Eye (Conjunctivitis)
    • Refractive Errors (Vision Problems)
    • Retinal Detachment
    • Surfer’s Eye (Pterygium)
  • Eye Procedures
    • Blepharoplasty – Eyelid Revision Procedures
    • Cataract Surgery
    • Corneal Transplants
    • LASIK
    • Refractive Lensectomy
    • Vitrectomy
    • YAG Laser Procedure
  • News

Diabetes and Eye Care

Diabetes is one of the most common diseases in the United States. About 34 million Americans have diabetes. As the obesity rate increases, the number of new cases of diabetes is also increasing. Unfortunately, one in five Americans have undiagnosed diabetes and are not monitoring their blood sugar.

Healthy Blood Sugar Levels

Diabetes can cause many health problems, and having diabetes also puts you at risk for other diseases. Along with an increased risk for heart disease, stroke, hypertension, kidney disease and nervous system damage, diabetes increases your risk for eye diseases and even blindness.

High blood sugar causes the lens of the eye to swell, which changes your ability to see. Blurred vision can be a symptom of serious eye problems, and it is imperative to have blood sugar levels checked regularly.

Diabetic Eye Disease

Having diabetes can put your vision at risk. Three common diseases that can develop from untreated diabetes are cataracts, glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy.

Control and Prevention

If you have diabetes, you are not doomed to develop diabetic eye disease. Although you are at risk, you can control your diabetes, so your vision is not compromised.

Visit your doctor regularly

Visit your doctor regularly

Schedule regular doctor visits for blood sugar monitoring. Listen to your doctors’ recommendations and follow them.

Control your diet

Control your diet

Eating right is essential to prevent or control diabetes. Your diet needs to be high in nutrients, low in fat and moderate in calories.

Exercise regularly

Exercise regularly

Exercise can help you control your blood sugar, increase fitness and reduce your risk for heart disease and nerve damage.

Have regular comprehensive eye exams

Have regular comprehensive eye exams

Your eye doctor will test for diabetic eye diseases during your examinations. If you are prediabetic or diabetic, it is even more important to have regular follow-up visits to monitor your vision.

Request an Appointment

Your Sight Matters
Cataracts Glaucoma Latest News

Test your Knowledge: Cataracts Myth vs Fact Quiz

Take The Quiz
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Site Map

© AMSURG 2025