Question
Is surgery necessary if a small blood clot from head trauma compresses the visual nerve, leading to blindness? What medications are better for treatment?
Answer
This condition is secondary optic neuritis. It is impossible to recover with any medication. The cause of the disease is bleeding after the injury, followed by sterile inflammation that invades the visual nerve. It is necessary to treat before the affected nerve is deprived of blood and shrinks, otherwise, once the treatment period has passed and the affected nerve has shrunk and died, there is no hope for recovery. The treatment plan involves a combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine to eliminate both primary and secondary blood clots and their damage to the nerves, enhance and improve blood circulation in the injured neural region to nourish the nerves, soften scar tissue to prevent degeneration of damaged neural tissue that cannot be restored, and excite and activate paralyzed and stunned nerves to achieve the best possible recovery of vision and other functions. Please send me photos from the MRI when the illness first occurred and the most recent ones for guidance.