subject: What can prevent us to be good candidate for LASIK eye surgery? [print this page] What can prevent us to be good candidate for LASIK eye surgery?
Lasik eye surgery is so great that it helps many people to realize their dream to get rid of glasses or contact lenses in their later life. With the wide popularity of the surgery, more and more people worldwide want to take this surgery. But do you know not everyone can be a good candidate for LASIK eye surgery? Before taking the surgery, we should have a complete eye test and thorough consultation with the surgeon to make sure if the surgery is suitable for us, or else, it may bring huge harms to our eyes. You may wonder to know in which kind of condition LASIK eye surgery is not fit for us, read ahead.
At the beginning, let us learn about the procedure of LASIK eye surgery in order to help us to know more about the surgery. LASIK eye surgery is using a laser to reshape people's corneas, which is a part of the eye and responsible for blurred vision or other vision problems. The normal shape of cornea is like a sphere and there is pressure around it. When the pressure changes due to hormones or other factors, the shape of cornea will change slightly. Only when the cornea is in its normal shape, surgeons can perform the surgery and reshape it correctly, or else, it will cause people other vision problems or even vision loss.
So which factors can influence our hormones, pressures around our cornea, and finally the normal shape of cornea? If we are under the following conditions, LASIK eye surgery is not recommended for us.
First, if we are under the age of 18, we are not advised to take LASIK eye surgery as our eye muscle and cornea is not mature, and hormone level is unstable. Besides, menopause women are also not suggested taking this surgery, because their hormones are fluctuating.
Second, pregnant women or even women in their menstruation are not allowed to take LASIK eye surgery. That is because during these periods, the hormones will change their corneal shape. And if there are large hormonal changes during that time, we should also talk with our eye doctor about our menstrual cycle.
Third, if we have diseases like diabetes, we are not recommended for the surgery. Some people with diabetes can take the surgery with the permits of their surgeon and primary care physician, but make sure that our surgeon has known about this condition before the surgery.
Therefore, before taking LASIK eye surgery, we should visit our eye doctor to do a complete eye test and tells the truth of our health history, and then the eye doctor can evaluate the potential risks of the surgery and recommend if we are good candidates for the surgery.
