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But will it make me go blind?

Lifestye choices, and their impact on vision, were the focus of this conference hosted by the charity Birmingham Focus on Blindness. Mary Bairstow reportse_SClB

Prize-for-drive.jpgWhile most optical practitioners are well versed in the impact smoking can have on vision, this one-day conference - cleverly titled 'But will it make me go blind?' - shed light on other health-related choices, such as poor nutrition and excess alcohol consumption, and the ocular damage they can cause.

Ash Sharma, a Birmingham ophthalmologist, opened the conference with a talk on lifestyle choices and ocular disease. He highlighted the folly of unprotected sex with the examples of HIV/Aids and chlamydia. Advances in the treatment of HIV/Aids had dramatically changed the nature of the associated eye disease.

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