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Glaucoma test incorporates
Visual Field Test
This tests whether your peripheral vision (i.e. the vision away from the centre, or everything you’re not looking directly at) is healthy, or whether there are gaps. Looking into a machine, you are asked to press a button every time you see a dot of light. If you have glaucoma, you may have some gaps in your field of vision so you may miss some of the flashing lights
Eye Pressure Test
At an optometrist’s, this is usually an “air puff” test. A small puff of air is directed at your eye and bounces back onto the machine, which measures the pressure within the eye (intraocular pressure or IOP). If you have glaucoma or ocular hypertension, your eye pressure will normally be raised
Optic Nerve Assessment
The optometrist looks at the back of the eye and may take a photograph. This is to check the health of the optic nerve. If you have glaucoma, the optic nerve will look different