Glaucoma: Symptoms, Complaints, Signs

The following symptoms and complaints may indicate glaucoma (glaucoma):

Leading symptoms of glaucoma

  • Visual field loss (due to chronic optic atrophy) – generally detected very late because initially only peripheral areas of the visual field have defects; visual deterioration does not occur until central areas of the visual field are also affected.
  • Decreased visual acuity

In the subacute stage of primary narrow-angle glaucoma.

  • Rapid, progressive vision loss.
  • Pain in the eye
  • Vascular congestion

Associated symptoms

  • Nausea and vomiting
  • Blood in the eyeball

Leading symptoms in glaucoma attack (glaucoma acutum); usually unilateral.

  • Eye pain
  • Eye redness
  • Nausea (nausea)/vomiting
  • Extremely hard eyeball
  • Sudden loss of vision (seeing fog; seeing haze), usually unilateral.
  • Seeing color rings (halos)

Leading symptoms in children with primary congenital glaucoma.

  • Opacity of the cornea (cornea)
  • Buphthalmus – oversized eye due to increased intraocular pressure.
  • Bluish discoloration of the eye