THE USE OF HIRUDOTHERAPY IN OPHTHALMOLOGY
Keywords:
Traditional medicine, hirudotherapy, glaucoma, treatment.Abstract
In the modern world, hirudotherapy is becoming an increasingly popular procedure. With the increasing number of people who have tested the healing effect of leeches on themselves, the number of studies on this topic is also growing.
In ophthalmology, hirudotherapy has also found a fairly wide application. Direct indications for the diagnosis of leeches in ophthalmological diagnoses are increased intraocular pressure, eye injury, eye burns, as well as in the postoperative period. In an acute attack of glaucoma, hirudotherapy is one of the few ways to save the patient's eyesight. The urgency of solving the problem of glaucoma treatment has not weakened over the years. On the contrary, the number of people seeking help is only growing. And hirudotherapy occupies a special place in the treatment of the disease.
The successful treatment of glaucoma directly depends on the stabilization of local hemodynamics and microcirculation. Therefore, it is hirudotherapy that can positively affect the treatment process and should be chosen as the main method of treatment.
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