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Can Diabetic Retinopathy Be Reversed? The reversal of blindness due to hypertension and diabetes with Dr. Kempnerâs rice and fruit diet demonstrates the power of diet to exceed the benefits of the best modern medicine and surgery have to offer. Discuss.
Diabetic retinopathy is a disorder of major public health importance, and one of the major causes of visual loss which cannot be corrected with glasses . The condition is due to damage to the small blood vessels that nourish the retina, the light-sensitive tissue that lines the back of the eye. There are often no symptoms in the early stages of diabetic retinopathy. Therefore, vision may not be affected until the disease becomes severe. At this earliest stage, microaneurysms occur. Microaneurysms are small areas of balloon-like swelling in the retina's blood vessels. 2. As the disease progresses, some blood vessels that nourish the retina are blocked. Many more blood vessels are blocked, depriving several areas of the retina of blood supply.