Nutraceuticals for Prevention of Opthalmic Diseases (Review Article)

Author(s): Garima Soni and *Pankaj Gupta

Abstract: This review focuses on the vitamins, minerals and antioxidants that have been described for reducing the risk of eye related diseases. Nowadays there is insufficient source to recommend routine nutritional supplementation in healthy adults for prevention age related eye disease. Consumption of antioxidant rich foods and nutraceutical formulas reduced the risk of macular degeneration. Many formulated dietary supplements that are sold in the market were clinically proved for their efficacy to treat eye disease. Nutraceutical can offer some therapeutic potential in glaucoma management but to lack of clinical trials examine their benefits for glaucoma limits their current therapeutic use. There are many complications to treat cataract by surgery such as it may raise the intraocular pressure, iris prolapse, cystoid macular edema and posterior capsular opacification (PCO). Therefore, as an alternative food and nutraceutical is the best natural way to cure the eye diseases because of their presumed safety and therapeutic effects.

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