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During a consultation, your doctor will use various techniques to assess the symptom: Night blindness. These will include a physical examination and possibly diagnostic tests. (Note: A physical exam is always done, diagnostic tests may or may not be performed depending on the suspected condition) Your doctor will ask several questions when assessing your condition. It is important to openly share any pertinent information to help your doctor make an accurate diagnosis.
It is also very important to bring an up-to-date list of all of your all medical conditions, medications including dosages, and names of numbers of any specialist you see.
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Why: to determine if acute or chronic.
Why: e.g. diabetes increases risk of cataracts which cause degraded night vision; cystic fibrosis, celiac disease, nephrotic syndrome and cirrhosis of the liver may cause Vitamin A deficiency and night blindness.
Why: e.g. intestinal bypass surgery may cause Vitamin A deficiency.
Why: e.g. myopia (short-sightedness) people are at increase risk of macula degeneration which may cause degraded night vision.
Why: e.g. In some developing countries vitamin A deficiency is a major cause of blindness in the young due to a failure to incorporate green leafy vegetables or other sources of vitamin A into the diet.
Why: of Diabetes, Retinitis pigmentosa.
Why: e.g. syphilitic retinitis causes vision that is worse at night or in the dim light.
Why: suggests cataracts.
Why: e.g. seeing objects smaller or larger than actual - suggests macula degeneration.
Why: may suggest malabsorption and vitamin A deficiency as a cause of night blindness.
Why: e.g. increasing difficulties with night vision with concentric loss of peripheral visual fields. Central vision may be retained. Usually has a family history of the condition.
Why: e.g. night blindness is the earliest symptoms of vitamin A deficiency. Later symptoms include dry eyes, eye pain (due to ulcer formation) and blindness. May also have dryness of the skin.
The following list of conditions have 'Night blindness' or similar listed as a symptom in our database. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.
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The following list of medical conditions have 'Night blindness'
or similar listed as a medical complication in our database.
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