Treating Progressive Keratoconus By Collagen Crosslinking

Researches show that the increase rate of progressive keratoconus is 328.9%

, so we can see this is a highly increasing eye disease that bothers more and more people worldwide. The main causes of progressive keratoconus are as following: If there are some people in your family who caught this disease, you are likely to have it; If hard contacts are not fit for people and they often feel uncomfortable to wear, this may lead to progressive keratoconus; For people with eye rubbing history, seasoned allergies can cause them this disease; And direct eye trauma injury is also a factor that may cause progressive keratoconus.

After learning about the reason for progressive keratoconus, you may wonder to know how to treat this eye disease. Among all the treatments, though collagen crosslinking was a controversial one, this has been proved of great effect in treating progressive keratoconus. The Dresden Clinical study does some researches and the result is vey positive. In a 3 and 5 year study, patients are so lucky to stop the progression, and only 31 patients improve their disease with a slight reversal. Two years ago, the Dresden Center in Germany used the collagen crosslinking over 100 people and it has shown positive effects on treating progressive keratoconus. Therefore, researches are confident that with the sound and positive effect, collagen crosslinking will be widely used in future to treat progressive keratoconus.

It is less invasive to use collagen crosslinking with photosensitzer Riboflavin and a ultraviolet light to treat progressive keratoconus. You may think this maybe very complicated and needs a lot of time to do it. On the contrary, this treatment can only take 30 to 45 minutes. In addition, this can be done in a clinic. Please rest assured that it has little side effects or discomforts. Except some patients with extremely progressive keratoconus need a second dose, most patients can be treated for once. So we can see this treatment is not as complicated as we thought, and it has little side effects but its effect on treating progressive keratoconus is great.

Thanks for researches and eye doctors hard work that we can have this effective method to treat progressive keartoconus. But they are still not satisfied with this breakthrough. They are now still working hard to search if there is any better way to treat this eye problem and finally people dont need to worry about this eye problem.

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by: EdwardTurner

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