Fluids Hypertension Syndromes: Migraines, Headaches, Normal ...

Fluids Hypertension Syndromes – Dr. Leonardo Izecksohn – page 96
Scheme IX-3: Optic Nerve’s fibers atrophy and visibility of the Lamina Cribosa's pores with simultaneous
Edema of the remaining Optic Nerve’s borders, caused by the higher pressures alternation:
Some hours the higher is the intraocular pressure, and some hours the higher is the Cerebrospinal
Fluid pressure.
We conclude that the intraocular and the Cerebrospinal Fluids’ pressures rises occurred at different
hours, in around 39% of the patients with Normal (Peak) Tension Glaucoma.
Glaucoma together with Cerebrospinal Fluid Hypertension caused by caffeine: On January, 2008,
we had a 57 year-old artisan, 5 children, Mulatta, with European, Indian and Black ancestors. She was
1.55 meters (5 feet and 1 inch) tall, weighting 79 kilograms (174 pounds). She had suffered for more
than 20 years of Asthma, backaches, ischemic coronary disease, and chronic high-pressure glaucoma.
Although the anti-glaucomatous eye drops, she was feeling daily aches on her eyes and on her back,
medicated with caffeinated analgesics. Her blood glucose was above healthy limits. She was taking
some 10 daily medications, besides the homeopathy. She daily drank coffee 300 milliliters (10 fluid
ounces), some glasses of green tea and caffeinated cola. At her ophthalmological tonometry, we found
intraocular pressures of 20 mmHg in both eyes, and On direct ophthalmoscopy she presented right and
left Optic Nerves’ cups with 0.8/3/2/0.5 and 0.7/4/2/0.5 (cup diameter/ cup depth/ lamina cribosa’s
pores visibility/ borders edema), which configures simultaneous glaucoma and Cerebrospinal Fluid
Hypertension in both eyes.
We taught her to stop all caffeine: in medications, coffee, tea and sodas. We changed her eye drops.
She disappeared from our office. After 5 months she came again to change her eyeglasses. She was
almost entirely improved or cured from all those ailments, including no more asthma crisis, with exception
of the restricted movements to bend down from her back. Her Optic disks show the same cups of
before, with reductions of the lamina cribosa’s pores visibility and the borders edemas, which became
difficult to measure (0.8/3/1/0.25? and 0.7/3/1/0.25?). She had reduced or stopped most of those old
medications. Her eyes reduced their intraocular pressures to 16 and 18 mmHg right and left eyes. She
was weighting only 74.5 kilograms (164 pounds), a reduction of 4.5 kilograms without any specific
therapy, and both she and her husband were happy about the caffeine eschew. She only came back because
she needed new eyeglasses, or we did not see her again: the cured patient does not return.