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Health See other Health Articles Title: What Diseases Can be Determined by Looking in The Eyes? Next time you find yourself perched expectantly on an examining table, take a glance behind you. In addition to the hidden camera you might notice an expensive looking apparatus that resembles an airport security interrogation system. These eye and ear scopes are believed by most kids to be an office entertainment system. Entering the examining room, I often find mini-doctors and doctorettes attempting to either burn a hole in their mother’s cornea or see just how far they can ram this device into a squirming brother’s earwax. Gently I extricate the youngster from the cord that has gradually wrapped itself several times about their scrawny little neck and ask them to surrender their weapon. Some kids refuse, so slowly, yet menacingly, I pull out a large syringe while emitting a low evil cackle (I love this job!). The eye looker inner thingy is commonly referred to as a fundoscope by doctors, as a GoGo Gadget spy scope by kids, and as a device-of-interest by the CIA. Oddly enough, while peering into the eye, it is not the eye that doctors are primarily examining. Rather the retina (the back of the eye) is the only place in the entire human body where a doctor can look directly at bloody blood vessels and nervous nerves. By snuggling up Listerine-close and shining a light onto the retina, many of your body’s secrets are revealed (including where you just ate lunch). The procedure of examining the retina, while eskimo kissing, is called FUNDOSCOPY. It is so named because, after dilating a patient’s pupil with drops, the doctor enjoys oodles of FUN watching the blurry-eyed patient stumble drunkenly through the waiting room, which, by the way, has been set up deliberately as an obstacle course. To find out what diseases can be revealed by looking into the eye try this quiz. By looking in the eye a doctor is able to detect : #1 a. high cholesterol b. high blood pressure c. Hai Karate Answer: a,b. Hai Karate can be detected down the hall. Patients with high cholesterol often have a milky appearance to their blood vessels. High blood pressure causes the blood vessels in the retina to interact in a certain pattern. #2 a. head injuries b. head lice c. headache Answer: a,c. Though head lice may jump off the patient’s head onto the doctor’s eyelashes, all head injuries must be assessed by examining the retina. As pressure builds up inside the skull, certain signs appear in the blood vessels and the optic nerve. Headaches that are a result of a ruptured blood vessel in the skull can also be detected by examining the retina. #3 a. diabetes b. diarrhea c. Dilaudid Answer: a,c. Diabetes is a leading cause of acquired blindness in North America. As the eye is one of the first organs that diabetes destroys, the retina reveals the ravages of reduced vision. Dilaudid and other opiates like heroin and even Tylenol #3, can make the pupils shrink. That roadblock policeman, who shines that Solar Eclipse Flashlight into your eyes, is looking for the sloppy pupillary reflex of alcohol intoxication. If he were real sharp he could even pick up opiate abuse. Of course if he were real sharp he’d do up his fly. #4 a. MS b. MSG c. MS. LINDSAY LOHAN Answer: a. Multiple Sclerosis can be diagnosed by looking at the fat juicy optic nerve in the back of the eye. Normally a pink-orange looking nerve, MS turns it fish belly white. I doubt Ms. Lohan can look anyone straight in the eye. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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