Daily life

The use of a guide dog or asking a sighted friend to help (to overcome) ________________ problems for blind or partially sighted people outside.

Helpful techniques (to include) _____________ using colour-coded buttons to help with dressing, and counting as water (to pour) ___________ into a teapot to identify when it's full.

Braille or Moon (to help) _________ with reading and writing. Many people (to prefer) ____________ to listen to audio cassettes and CD's. The telephone and computers (to help) ___________ many to communicate.

Glaucoma

Types

There (to be) ______ two common types of glaucoma: acute and chronic. Acute glaucoma - mild attacks (to cause) _____________ pain in the eyes and haloes around lights. These symptoms (to relieve) ______________ by sleeping. Full-blown attacks (to cause) __________ rapid deterioration of vision, intense eye pain, redness and watering of the eye, sensitivity to bright light, haloes around lights, nausea and vomiting. Acute glaucoma (to be) _________ more common in women than in men.

Chronic glaucoma - often (to cause) _____________ no symptoms until permanent damage (occur) _____ already __________. Symptoms may then (to include) ___________ loss of peripheral vision and, eventually, blurring of objects directly in front of the person.

There (to be) _____ also two rarer types of glaucoma: congenital glaucoma and glaucoma that (to be) _____ secondary to conditions such as uveitis or a side effect of medication.

Glaucoma mainly (to affect) ___________ people over the age of 60 and (to be) _____ more common with increasing age.