Even if you’re wearing eyeglasses and contact lenses for years, after your 40s you will experience a different change in your vision. And, by the 50s to 60s, you may notice it’s increasingly hard to see things and difficult to drive at night - even after upgrading your eyeglasses and contact lenses. It’s a common condition in older adults, and it can be cataracts. The management of cataract differs based on the severity of the disease, visual impairment, associated systemic illnesses and age of the patient. The mainstay of treatment is usually surgical cataract extraction and lens implantation.
Types of Cataracts:
Nuclear Cataracts affect the center of the lens. It’s an excessive amount of yellowing and light scattering which can easily affect your eye. It begins with cloudy vision and double vision. It occurs in humans as well as dogs, horses and cats.
Cortical Cataracts attack the edges of the natural lens and are often wedge-shaped. As they develop, they harm the centre of the lens, and it reflects the vision.
A Posterior subcapsular cataract starts as a small and opaque area that usually forms near the back of the lens. It affects the back of the lens and then impacts the whole eye. It may interfere with your reading, reduces the vision in the light and causes glare or halos around lights at night.
Congenital cataract refers to a lens opacity which can affect the eye at the time of birth. This occurs in new-born babies for many reasons, including infection, diabetes, trauma and drug reactions.
Symptoms:
- Blurry, cloudy or dim vision
- Difficulty seeing at night
- Double vision
- Sensitivity to bright light and glare
- Coloured halos around light
- Need extra light when reading or doing regular activities
Treatment: -
Surgery is the only fruitful way to erase cataracts. It’s elective surgery, so, you need to have all the prescriptions by the doctor and a care team to schedule it. Surgery should be scheduled when your surgeon has approved your cataract surgery.
Since the cataract affects slowly, so in that case, you can further proceed as per your convenience for surgery depending on the stage and progression of cataract. You may choose not to have surgery right now. Till then, you can follow the same instructions as per your previous check-up.
- Keeping the prescription for eyeglasses and contact lenses updated.
- Give yourself sufficient light in the dark environment.
- Wearing hats and sunglasses in a bright environment to give protection from UV rays.
Sharp Sight deals with the latest technologies for cataract surgery
1. Femto Robotic Surgery - This procedure has provided a high-precision approach for eye surgeons to perform eye surgeries. This method involves 100% bladeless, needle-free, highly precise and hassle-free techniques for cataract surgery, even though it takes less time comparatively.
2. Zepto Cataract surgery - This is the latest technology which developed around a decade ago in automated cataract surgery. The procedure is disposable, handheld, and attached to a state-of-the-art console.
Also, Sharp Sight is the best eye hospital in East Delhi, it has all the latest technologies and equipment for cataract surgery. Sharp Sight never compromises the quality of eye care.
Sharp Sight has highly skilled and experienced team of ophthalmologists, optometrists, care givers and nurses who can provide suitable advice for your cataract surgery. Surgery is mostly advisable for those who are bound to do regular activities like reading newspapers, difficulties in seeing, blurred & Double vision and difficulties in driving. Surgery to remove cataracts is majorly a safe procedure and also has a high success rate but surgery can be performed as per the eye surgeon’s advice. In most cases, surgery restores vision very effectively. The presence of another systemic disease, time of intervention, and mode of surgery can be instrumental in determining the visual outcome.
With the world class quality of various lenses that are customized and crafted for patients at Sharp sight hospital, cataract surgery gives them beautiful opportunity to even eliminate the requirement of glasses.
After Cataract Surgery Post-cataract surgery is the specialized care which should be provided to a patient who has recently undergone a surgery. After Surgery, Sharp Sight makes sure that your recovery goes smoothly. We take care of your all prescriptions and ‘visit schedule’ with your eye doctor.
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