Does high intraocular pressure heat damage the optic nerve?

High intraocular pressure hot compress eyes will damage the optic nerve, need to be combined with the actual situation analysis.

If the patient's high intraocular pressure situation is not obvious, and belongs to occasional hot compress, hot compress time is short, can promote local blood circulation, improve eye metabolism, relieve eye soreness discomfort symptoms, then generally will not damage the optic nerve. If the patient's high intraocular pressure is obvious, and often hot compress, hot compress time is long, at this time will make the eye blood vessels dilate, leading to local congestion intensified, so that the intraocular pressure further increased, leading to optic nerve compression, affecting vision, at this time may damage the optic nerve.