Us for michaels last stop. My conditions are on the rise from cataracts to nearsightedness and Macular Degeneration millions of people worldwide suffer from poor vision. Climate reading fine print is almost impossible you have to hold the book up to your face young people are increasingly affected around 270000000 people are visually impaired and 36000000 a blind worldwide. Sense of sight plays a vital role in our lives these things are very difficult for it is for the but often. Modern surgical techniques and this invasive and can help restore eyesight. And its a quantum leap of mine a revolution. From still. Self serve pizza laser surgery new treatments giving patients hope. This Residential Development in the city of mines germany is home to. Her brother max and their parents. 13 year old lily is an ordinary teenager she goes to dance class twice a week and she likes to chat with her friends. Lily has been nearsighted since the 4th grange she has minus 4 diopters in her right eye minus 0. 5 in her left one when lily takes off her glasses the girl looks like this even nearby objects appear blurred until eyesight is continuing to deteriorate. I see things best when theyre very close but it keeps getting worse. When i take off my glasses even my hands looks blurry anything further away is even blurry or. Me as sightedness all myopia is the result of the shape of the arc. Normally rays of light entering the eye refracted so that they focus on the record at the back of the on when the eyeball is too long while the cornea to prove to the light focus is at a point in front of the retina objects that are further away appear blurred and. Thats always i saw with our eyes are designed for distance vision spending a lot of time looking at nearby objects what strain on our eyes our eyes then gradually deform so that we can see nearby objects more easily but then we end up not being able to see objects at a distance as well. Thats whats called being near side. Myopia is partly hereditary least parents are also nearsighted. Healy has an appointment at the eye clinic in mines for thora examination. Nor the transfer heads the eye clinic and is the specialist in the sightedness you are going to find the. First comes the exam with the sleep plan or just a month or so but your chin on the chin rest you knew. He 1st examines the oculus and optic nerve in both eyes nearsighted people should get a vision exam at least once a year. Player people can promote the development of the office serious i disorders it increases the risk of britain all detachments and cataracts. Leaving school. Is nearsighted at minus 4. 00 to 5. 00 diopters thats fairly nearsighted not as much as some but its quite a lot she started out with a quarter of a diopter when she was about 10 that tends to increase with age until maybe 18 or 20. 4 though what follows really is an example of how nearsightedness is on the rise. Hes investigating the coolness of the increase in a large scale german study involving 15000 patients. The study has been underway for 12 years. The lingo money the longer you go to school the more nearsighted you become of us money for every year you go to school you get a bit more nearsighted and that goes for University Degrees the longer you study the more nearsighted you become because so near sightedness has a behavioral component her personal example has been supported so myopia isnt just a registry our lifestyle plays a role. Nearsightedness to sling to. Educational levels and is on the rise worldwide. Unbiased as in oz and in asia even more young people are nearsighted month to learn and some countries up to 80 or 90 percent on with what we think one factor might be the age at which children start school some time in some Asian Countries or they start school when theyre just 3 or 4 years old being a fool of even in taiwan for example myopia has reached epidemic proportions up to 90 percent of School Children in major cities and nia cited schools and universities are pressure cauldrons the workload is heavy even move than in europe long hours a study lead to more knee sightedness what many dont realize is that if myopia remains untreated it can lead to blindness. Cross can shrug off his vision problems for years a Software Engineer he was working on a new program when he suffered a written all detachment he underwent 12 surgeries but nothing helped ross carr is now blind at one point he contemplated suicide i came here i can me go always going to be there for me just a lot. Because of the family farm things made me realise that perhaps if im settled out here myself that i get Something Like a studio something for myself and others i. Use can now goes to schools to tell his story and raise awareness about nearsightedness. In the classroom he tries to connect with the children on a personal level. Every half hour we let our eyes have a break through how long joe 10 minutes theyre going to try and last year how long should you play outside every day. 2 hours while. The children are supposed to give their ice upright from school work but not now is hitting the books is ingrained in asian culture its an uphill battle to. W. H. O. Estimates that pass the worlds population will be short sighted within 30 years but simple measures would make a difference. Thats. The most important thing is to send children outside into the sunlight for 2 hours every day. We know this is the best way to prevent nearsightedness. An instrument called an looks meter is used to measure light intensity so in these and be awarded a probably say theres plenty of light in this office enough to work by the meter is showing 102. 5 lux thats not much like the light is much brighter outside its not see if you neal. Even bright lamps are no substitute for daylight eyes need sunlight the chance to view objects at a distance outside the light intensity is a 100 times higher and. Yet also to the world by talk of the meter outside us but even though its cloudy were seeing 13600. 00 lights into thats much higher looks if it were sunny oh it would be even higher than the door to the other. Bright sunlight can be a 100000 looks all move it may seem trivial but daylight works wonders against news sightedness. Back at the clinic early is undergoing another vision test shes supposed to read the numbers off the chart. Shes asked if she can read the largest number there. Is even the largest number is blurred. Glorify for will continue monitoring lose vision and making sure she gets enough sunlight. Its the only way to treat her new sightedness and preserve her vision. And i clinic in cologne germany specializes in other vision problems. Alfred remet is 60 years old he lives an hour away and comes here for treatment remake runs a company with over 2000 employees and often travels abroad his vision has been deteriorating for some time now this is what it looks like out the window this is what alfred remet sees and its getting worse. Its just its all kind of foggy blurry and foggy right now im still coping but ordinary activities are getting more difficult. After a grimace has come here for a consultation with our school soften. His chief position at the 20 and a leading expert in cornell disorders. His exam shows that alfred rivet is a good candidate for surgery. The lands in cornea are clouded so 2 layers of the eye are clouded in one surgical procedure will try to eliminate both sources of his clouded vision will replace the lens and transplant the inner layer of the cornea them to. The transparent cornea is part of the outer casing of the i and serves as a kind of wind shield. Behind it the iris opens and closes to control the amount of light entering leon i. The lens focus is the incoming light to create a sharp in each on the retina. The optic nerve then transmits that information to the brain. 2 hours later the surgery is underway flounce course even is preparing the corneal transplant the clinic has its own eye back with corneas from organ donations the cornea does not have a direct blood supply for that reason it can be removed up to 72 hours after death. Of. Couse close even carefully removes the agents of the cornea. The blue contrast agent helps him guide the delicate incisions. The cornea is only a few 1000 of a millimeter thick. Using a precision instrument he removes the in a layer of the cornea. 6 the delicate tissue is rolled up and then placed on an injector. 6 the instrument will later help him position the cornea in the patients i. The patient is wheeled into the operating room after the remedy is already under general anesthesia. The eyelids held open with retractors. With 3 tiny incisions the diseased in elia of the cornea is removed. You know were. Going to this is the inner clouded lab of the cornea which is selectively removed or if it is about 10000th of a millimeter think. We only remove the disease black here. And can leave the rest of the cornea in place nothing. That speeds up the healing process just a few years ago the entire cornea would have been transplanted. Then the injector is inserted into the eye and the thin cornea layer is unraveled. The longer procol a structure on the front of the eye is the transplant. It was more now we have to put it in the proper position. The one where. It was all before long ago now we will film v. I. I. With a gas or gas bubble prices the transplant family onto the back of the cornea able to leave them so it on its held in place by this gas problem. The gas bubble pushes the transplant onto the cornea in order for it to attach probably the patient only to lie on his back quietly for several days everything goes smoothly and the surgery is a success. Secure grosss helps manage the i bank at the clinic today she retrieved dont arrive from the Pathology Department the clinic in cologne open that i bank in 2000. Sigrid voters carefully examines the eye for any sign of disease she then detaches the cornea bit by bit. Human corneas a still used in transplants but artificial ones and now under development. The doctor places the cornea in a nutrient medium and maintains the intra better at the perfect temperature ready for the next transplant surgery to man is high. As 6000. 00 corneal transplants take place each year in germany and there are another 6000. 00 recipients on the waiting list which of course would like to have more donors to meet this demand for the health of the. 5 weeks after the procedure after agreement is back at the cologne finnick for a checkup. Since corneas dont have their own blood vessels they really rejected by the recipients immune system unlike we dont have for example but he did have some difficulties at 1st he was moguls his own version but its really about that gets me is the im doing well malcolm of the 1st 14 days were hard infinitely he can discuss the future of my i was very sense