Is there any way to repair the nerves in the eyes?

Question

My father just come back from his eye doctor due to his blurry vision which is getting worse and worse everyday. The doctor said that some of the nerves are getting weak and damage, due to age (he's almost 70 yrs old) and nothing can be done to get them fix. All can be done is to prevent the nerves from getting worse. The doctor just give him some vitamins.
Is it true the damage nerves can't be fixed?
I don't want my father to lose his vision. He's an artist, his vision is everything to him. Anyone can help me pls?

Answer 1

ask him to practice JALNETI and PRANAYAM.
all the nerves will be strong and he will have no loss .
god bless u and ur family

Answer 2

The retina has little tiny photoreceptors, rods and cones, which are interconnected but eventually after sending dividing messages through the bipolar layer of cells in the center of the retina, then onto the ganglion cell layer which forms the nerve cells themselves, the nerve leaves the back of the eye and goes towards the base of the brain. This tract, rather than nerve, is similar to ascending tracts in the spinal cord that go to the brain. When the optic nerve becomes damaged by trauma, atrophy, a vascular insult of some type, demyelination, some metabolic problem such as diabetes, pressure by a tumor or abscess, vascular problems such as temporal arteritis, and others and others and others, it doesn't have the capacity to regenerate or 'fix' the broken section. So no information is transported down the nerve from the area of the lesion. Stem cells have been shown to 'repair' some of these connections, but as you can see from the news, there's been no 'real' breakthrough in the reparation of this type of injury in the optic nerve, or spinal cord. My first suggestion, and it's more serious than you know, is that he wear some sort of safety spectacle in front of the good eye. He doesn't have to wear them in bed, or in the bath, that's IT. He'll have some minor fall, at home, over the same carpet he's walked over thousands of times, or step on a toy or ?, and he'll fall and hit the GOOD eye, never the bad one. And if he sees better, good. If he doesn't see better, good, just wear the things! Even swimming, wear some sort of goggle. It is very hard to see a traumatic injury to someones ONLY eye at 2 in the morning, and have to go in and try and repair this person's ONLY eye when someone else thought it would look better with a broken beer bottle pushed through it. Why would you want to do that to the poor doctor who has to attempt to repair that injury? Maybe in time, we'll get the right triggers to allow for nerve fibers to reconnect up and transfer information like new, but I don't think it'll be in this lifetime period (30 years or so), but who knows, could be a breakthrough tomorrow. Meanwhile, safety glasses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 3

Unfortunately, the doctor is right (of course he has to be, he studied and became a doctor).

Nerve regeneration is something we cannot do. Yet. But we have very smart people working on it. Stem cells may eventually allow rebuilding the damaged nerves. Do support research in that area, your father is not the only losing his vision.

Answer 4

Damaged nerves of the eye can not be repaired.

Answer 5

Till date, no.
Partial repair, Yes.