By Michael A. Samuel
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For people who start losing their vision to macular degeneration, the prospect of impending blindness is frightening and terribly depressing. They often get contradictory advice about surgery, medical treatments, natural supplements, and lifestyle changes that might arrest or reverse the condition, and these conflicting recommendations only compound their anxiety.
Finally, in Macular Degeneration: A Complete Guide for Patients and Their Families, patients and their loved ones can turn to one easy-to-understand and authoritative source for up-to-date information about macular degeneration. Written by renowned ophthalmologist Michael Samuel, M.D., a retinal specialist, this book casts the spotlight on macular degeneration and dispels the myths surrounding this disease.
Macular Degeneration: A Complete Guide for Patients and Their Families offers a wealth of insights into what macular degeneration is, what causes it, and the array of contemporary treatment options. Here you_ll learn:
-Lifestyle and environmental factors that can affect your risk of developing age-related macular degeneration (AMD)
-Dietary strategies to prevent or slow the progression of macular degeneration
-Nutritional supplements that work
-The difference between dry AMD and wet AMD
-When surgery is the best option
-How to choose an eye care professional (or know that you_ve chosen the right one)
-How to deal with the stress of vision loss to macular degeneration
Written for patients-and those who love and care for them_Macular Degeneration: A Complete Guide for Patients and Their Families presents a clear picture of this illness and how best to address it. It_s the definitive source for information about macular degeneration; the tools, techniques, and strategies contemporary medicine offers people grappling with this frightening illness; and the prospects for stopping, and even reversing, the progression of this disease.
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