Vitamins and Vision Preservation

Dr. Johnson I have heard that you are a proponent of certain vitamin and mineral supplements to help preserve vision and to prevent vision loss- Can you explain your thoughts?

This is something we evaluate with each patient and make specific suggestions in regards to which supplements would work best for them depending on their eye health history and their family eye health history. We also look at their lifestyle history to rule out which supplements are not suitable for smokers because of the link of `beta carotene and lung cancer. We are also interested if patients are taking blood thinners to make sure their vitamin suggestion is respective of Vitamin E and Vitamin K. If there is a history of Alzheimer’s then we would want to look at a patients zinc intake in a vitamin. We have found that we suggest when we examine our patients can prevent vision loss or progression of vision loss.