Cataract Treatment

What Is Cataract ?

The lens of your eye is normally clear, allowing light to pass through. The lens helps focus the light on your retina so you can see things clearly, whether they’re up close or far away.

Your lens is mostly made of water and proteins. Normally, the proteins line up in a special way so that your lens is completely clear and light can pass through easily. If the proteins in your lens clump together, the lens gets cloudy and can affect the sharpness of your vision. This cloudiness is known as Cataract.

Cataract keep you away from seeing clearly because light can’t pass through the clumps of proteins in your lens very easily. The clumps of protein get bigger and thicker, making it harder for you to see. The lens may also develop a yellow or brown tint, which can change how you see colours. Mostly it is caused by ageing process.

Causes For Cataract

- Natural ageing process

- Diabetes- Among diabetics, cataracts appear early & grow faster who have fluctuating sugar

- Intake of steroids

- Excessive intake of alcohol

- Exposure to cancer radiation therapy and ionizing radiation

- Excessive sunlight exposure

- Having family history of early cataracts

- Hypertension

- Overweight/Obesity

- Recent eye surgery

- Congenital cataract due to intrauterine infection or may be genetic

Symptoms

Cataracts develop slowly and painlessly over time – in fact, in early stages, symptoms may be so mild that you may not even realize your vision is changing. However, as cataracts become denser, you will experience one or more of the following :

- Glare while driving

- Double Vision (Diplopia)

- Halos around lights

- Frequent change in glasses

- Fading in colors

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