WHAT CAN BE DONE TO CURE NIGHT BLINDNESS

To answer this question, it is necessary to look at the different causes of NIGHT BLINDNESS. This is a very brief overview. If the NIGHT BLINDNESS is a result of a damaged retina, the chances for a cure do not exist today. However, if it's the result of cataracts or a vitamin deficiency, there or some measures that can be taken. Macular Degeneration, or MD, is another cause of NIGHT BLINDNESS. It is almost always associated with aging and usually leads to total blindness. Medical science is starting to make major breakthroughs in some areas of blindness, but any real cure is years away. The NVE Alpha Series is intended to be a bridge until that time. We know it won't help everyone in every condition, but for many, it can be life changing. Below are some statistics on a number of eye disorders.

GENERAL
100 million Americans are visually disabled without corrective lenses (70 million are myopic).
80 million people suffer from potentially blinding eye disease.
33,700,000 visits are made to doctors for eye care each year.

11,400,000 people have severe visual conditions not correctable by glasses.
6,400,000 new cases of eye disease occur each year.
2,800,000 people are visually handicapped from color blindness.
1,100,000 people are legally blind.
650,000 people are hospitalized each year for eye injury or disease.

CATARACT
5,500,000 people have vision obstructed by cataract.
3,700,000 visits are made to doctors' offices each year because of cataracts.
1,350,000 cataract extractions are performed each year.
400,000 new cases of cataract develop each year.

AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION (AMD)
13 million people have signs of macular degeneration.
6,300,000 people are projected to develop AMD in 2030, compared to 1.7 million in 1995.
1,200,000 people are in the later stages of macular degeneration.
230,000 people are blind from macular degeneration.

RETINAL DISEASE
16 million diabetics are prime targets for blinding disorders.
7 million diabetics suffer from diabetic retinopathy.
700,000 diabetics are presently at risk of blindness.
100,000 people have retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a family of progressive inherited diseases that cause deterioration of the retina and blindness.
65,000 diabetics each year develop proliferative diabetic retinopathy, the most sight-threatening stage.
25,000 new cases of blindness are caused annually by complications of diabetes.
25,000 cases of retinal detachment are treated each year.