Your eyes provide an important window into the health of your body. Fatty deposits, known as xanthomas, around your eyes may indicate high cholesterol levels or diabetes or thyroid dysfunction; taking steps to control these can prevent exterior eye lesions. Your Brooklyn eye doctor can suggest diet and lifestyle changes to keep your eyes healthy.

Xanthelasma

Xanthelasma is the medical term for deposits of yellow fat (cholesterol) on the skin around the eyelid. This condition usually impacts upper and lower eyelids, although it poses no major health risk; instead it can be considered cosmetic in nature. This condition is caused by metabolic disorders; increased levels of blood lipids (fat component of blood) as well as abnormal fat transport proteins can result in characteristic skin changes associated with xanthelasma.

Dependent upon the cause of fatty deposits, various treatments can be undertaken. Medication to decrease cholesterol levels may be effective; in addition, changing diet to include more fruits, vegetables, and lean meats may help prevent future episodes of xanthelasma.

Arcus Senilis is an even more severe type of xanthelasma that arises when cholesterol build-up from high cholesterol levels breaks loose and travels to your eye vessels, blocking their blood flow and leading to vision loss. Treatment includes laser therapy; however if blood vessels in your eyes cannot widen further then surgery may be required instead.

If you have a history of high cholesterol, it’s essential that your doctor performs regular checks for signs and symptoms of the disorder, including visual examination, slit lamp examination and blood lipid paneling. Furthermore, maintaining a healthy diet with regards to managing cholesterol levels is also vitally important if this runs in your family.

If you find that xanthelasma forms on you, phlebolysis may be an effective treatment option. This minimally invasive procedure boils away fat cells stored under your skin’s surface – all without needing anesthesia and without risking scarring or scabbing! For more information about our practice and available treatments please reach out.

Corneal Arcus

The corneal arcus is an opaque white, yellow or gray ring that appears around the outer periphery of a person’s cornea due to lipid (fat and cholesterol) deposition on its outer periphery. This condition typically associated with familial hypercholesterolemia with elevated blood lipid levels and high familial cholesterol levels; it can also occur among older adults who do not. When appearing in people under 40 years old it is known as an “arcus juvenalis”.

Arcus can typically be seen at 12 o’clock on the cornea but may appear elsewhere as well. Typically, density increases from 12 to 3 o’clock and decreases further down to 9 and 6 o’clock respectively; additionally it may creep upward or downward with variable intensity to form a full circle eventually.

Conditions associated with corneal arcus include lecithin cholesterol acyl transferase deficiency and fish eye disease (pictured below). This results from an absence of proteins within the corneal lens that are essential in binding phospholipids to cells of the eye’s cellular membrane and maintaining moisture balance within.

Recent findings of a cross-sectional sample demonstrated that corneal arcus was linked with dyslipidemia, an independent risk factor for coronary heart disease among people over 50 years of age. Participants were evaluated using a questionnaire, an extensive systemic and ocular examination including CCT and IOP measurements, as well as serum lipid collection. Simple and multiple logistic regression analyses were utilized to analyze the relationship between corneal arcus and serum lipid levels while accounting for any other potential confounds. Through these analyses, it was found that corneal arcus is significantly associated with higher IOP and lower CCT independent of age, gender and other systemic and ocular factors. Further investigation should focus on understanding its mechanisms in order to identify patients at an increased risk for coronary artery disease.

Skin Tags

Skin tags are flesh-colored growths that resemble small pieces of hanging skin and typically reach only a few millimeters in size. Their narrow stalk connects them to your surface skin and typically, they are either the same shade as or slightly darker than your natural complexion; usually found where clothing or jewelry rub against your body, such as in areas such as necks, underarms, eyelids and groin areas. Although not dangerous in any way, they can irritate sensitive areas when come into contact with clothing or jewelry and may bleed when making contact with clothing or jewelry that comes into contact with clothing or jewelry; although not harmful they may irritate sensitive areas by coming into contact with clothing or jewelry which comes into contact with them. While not dangerous in any way they can irritate skin irritate sensitive areas while potentially bleeding occurs if this comes into contact with clothing or jewelry when coming into contact with clothing/jewelry rub against body areas where clothing rubs against body parts where clothing rubs against body areas where clothing/jewelry rubs against body parts where clothing/jewelry rub against skin against body parts rubbing against you body areas where clothing or jewelry rub against body parts causing skin tags to form as they come into contact with clothing/jewelry rub against body parts as clothing rub against clothing/jewelry rub against skin tags due to come contact between clothing/jewellery may bleed when come in contact with clothing/jewellery rub against either clothing/ irritate your body causing or jewelry rub against body and you might rub against body surface where skin rubs against your body is rub against you or the body rubs against. They appear. While non dangerous to rub against it rub against skin/groin area of body rub against against each other rub against against another part rub against it may rub against body rub against them (sometimes rub against which can rub against against it rub against this or jewellery rub against against you may irritate it may bleed on contacts of course when coming in contact. While non dangerous in case causing them against clothing/ jewelry coming in contact rubbing on other.. When clothing/groin area they bleed when coming into contact, cause them, irritate the person being involved bleed when coming in touch when contact occurs at place groin area) which then make sure the skin. However bleed from this may even groin area when comes contact causing friction against this condition too close proximity due to potential irritation bleed.

Skin tags are typically harmless, yet some individuals choose to have them removed for cosmetic or irritant reasons. The removal process is quick and nondestructive: simply freeze with liquid nitrogen or cut them off using a scalpel – although electrocautery may also be an option, which involves burning them with an electric needle.

Skin tags are an inevitable part of life. Most commonly seen in areas where clothing or jewelry rub against your skin, like eyelids, necks, underarms, armpits, breasts, groins and folds of your skin – they tend to develop around eyeslids necks underarms armpits breasts groins groins groins etc – they are particularly prevalent among older adults but both genders can experience them.

Though they do not qualify as medical conditions, skin tags should be removed by a physician if they cause irritation or become caught up in clothing. While removal is typically painless and does not result in their return, new ones may develop elsewhere on your body.

Skin tags are among the most frequently occurring benign tumors that develop on flexural parts of older and obese persons, typically females. Although various approaches have been proposed to manage them, none has proven successful until a noninvasive and fast cryotechnique was created for treating these lesions using liquid nitrogen to coagulate tissues and dissolve lesions quickly and safely – taking between one to three minutes per tag treatment session to complete treatment of all lesions.

Diabetic Retinopathy

Diabetes Mellitus causes blood vessels in the retina – the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye – to swell, leading to diabetic macular edema – which results in loss of central vision and is one of the primary causes of blindness in America. Diabetic retinopathy can also contribute to cardiovascular and kidney issues. There are various treatment options for diabetic retinopathy available today, such as laser treatment, medication injections or surgery. At first, symptoms of retinal detachment tend to be mild or nonexistent. The first sign may be changes in the appearance of your retina which may become puffy or blurry; as time progresses and more serious issues develop like microaneurysms or vitreous hemorrhages occur; in extreme cases the retina can completely separate itself from its wall of the eye and even detach completely from its walls.

Regular eye doctor visits are the key to avoiding diabetes-related retinopathy, with your physician inspecting for signs such as swollen blood vessels or leakage of fluid from them. Also essential in helping avoid diabetic retinopathy are maintaining appropriate levels of sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol in order to lessen its risks.

Treatment options for diabetic retinopathy depend on its severity. Laser treatments may be effective in shrinking abnormal blood vessels and decreasing macular swelling; while in more serious cases a doctor may need to remove vitreous humor from an eye.

Rapid recognition and treatment can prevent permanent vision loss from diabetes. Diabetics should receive a comprehensive dilated eye exam at least annually or as recommended by their eye care provider.

Diabetics are more at risk for diabetic retinopathy than non-diabetics due to factors like duration, poorly managed blood sugar levels, high blood pressure and cholesterol levels, obesity, renal disease, pregnancy or smoking as primary risk factors.