Today, the treatment of various diseases, as scary as it sounds and looks, is needle eye may also contain. While this is usually a very gentle and successful treatment approach, rarely a bacterial infection in the needle entry layer and damage to the eye tissue can be seen as a result of repeated needle use.

Scientists have developed a new treatment method to prevent these complications. Successfully completed the preclinical testing phase The treatment method gave successful results in eliminating the risks that can arise with treatments administered by eye injection.

The needle is inserted into the eye only once, no more than once:

In age-related macular degeneration, where more than one injection is given into the eye, treatment involves injecting a medicine called ‘anti-VEGF’ into the eye more than once. Here is the new treatment method developed by scientists, which causes the needle to get stuck in the eye again and again, and thus the damage. minimalize offers.

In the new method, scientists an ultra-thin micro-sized needle prick and this needle stays in the eye. At the outer end of the needle is a “cap” that closes the hole and injects the medicine into the eye contour. The needle left in the eye, on the other hand, biodegrades over time.

The team behind the new method first tried it on pigs’ eyes. In the studies, the drug was injected into the eye as planned and the needle hole remains closed after the injection seen. In subsequent tests, the injection was tested on live pigs. The team also achieved successful results in these tests.

It is not yet known when the new method in question will be applied to humans. of your method need to continue animal testing for a while is emphasized. The research is published in Advanced Healthcare Materials.