Nothing.Dry macular degeneration is much more common than the wet form of macular degeneration. In most, but not all patients...the visual loss is quite mild...but tends to worsen over time.
Many different therapies are being investigated...looking at ways to prevent worsening...and also to improve vision in patients with macular degeneration.
These therapies include Rheopheresis (which involves filtering out large molecules from the blood) as well as various medicines. No treatment is however presently fully proven or available.
Very low levels of light energy can be amazingly effective in treating macular degeneration. Have you seen this paper where they got 96% improvement p<0.00001 with just four 40 second treatments of only 7.5 mw at 780 nm?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dr-wilden.de/pdf/Macula_Degeneration_ALMD_Liebert.pdf
I'm very interested in trying the treatment described as it seems that the effects of these low light levels are poorly understood by most doctors. There seems to be a "sweet spot" that produces increases in ATP production by the mitochondria but higher energies produce less effect. Here is a Harvard paper that develops the idea. I'd be interested in your opinions on the matte