Presbicia is characterized by a change in vision associated with aging of the eye, with age, with a progressive difficulty in clearly focusing objects.
Presbicia usually begins around age 40, peaking around age 65, with symptoms such as visual fatigue, difficulty reading the fine print, or blurred vision, for example.
Treatment involves wearing glasses, contact lenses, laser surgery, or the administration of medications.
Presbicia symptoms usually appear from age 40 due to the difficulty of the eye focusing objects closer to the eyes and include:
In the presence of these symptoms, an ophthalmologist should be consulted to diagnose and guide the treatment that can be performed with the use of glasses or contact lenses that help the eye focus the image closely.
Presbicia is caused by the hardening of the lens, which can occur as the person ages.The less flexible the lens of the eye becomes, the harder it is to change shape to properly focus the images.
Treatment of presbicia involves correcting the eye with glasses with lenses that can be simple, bifocal, trifocal or progressive or with contact lenses, which usually vary between 1 and 3 diopters, to improve close-up vision.
In addition to glasses and contact lenses, presbicia can be corrected by laser surgery with the installation of monofocal, multifocal or accommodative intraocular lenses.Find out how to recover from laser eye surgery.
Medication treatment, such as a combination of pilocarpine and diclofenac, may also be performed.