Can folk remedies cure presbyopia and cataracts? Don’t believe it!

As they age, many elderly people cannot avoid suffering from eye diseases such as presbyopia and cataracts. If someone tells you that presbyopia and cataracts can be cured with medication, be careful not to be fooled!

Causes of Cataracts

Cataract mainly refers to an eye disease caused by aging, heredity, local nutritional disorders, immune and metabolic abnormalities, trauma, poisoning, radiation, etc., which leads to lens metabolism disorders, resulting in lens protein denaturation and turbidity.

Cataract patients often have symptoms such as blurred vision, double vision, photophobia, glare, dark shadows in front of the eyes, and worsening myopia. If surgical treatment is not performed in time, there is a risk of blindness.

What is presbyopia?

Presbyopia is caused by the aging of the ciliary muscle and lens, which are responsible for the adjustment function, resulting in the inability to properly adjust the focus of light when looking at close objects.

About the treatment of presbyopia and cataracts

Currently, presbyopia can only be treated by wearing glasses or undergoing surgery to achieve the goal of seeing close objects clearly.

As for the treatment of cataracts, current drugs can only temporarily delay the progression of cataracts. To solve the problem of cataracts, surgery is still needed to replace the cloudy lens with a transparent artificial lens in order to achieve the purpose of seeing clearly.

There is currently no clinically available drug for the treatment of presbyopia and cataracts, so do not believe in folk remedies!

Refractive Cataract Surgery

Cao Xiangrong, director of Tianjin University Aier Eye Hospital, said that many elderly people are troubled by both presbyopia and cataracts. With the development of science and technology, cataract surgery technology is also being updated and iterated. Refractive cataract surgery can solve the problem of presbyopia while treating cataracts. After the operation, there is no need to wear reading glasses, which helps the elderly realize their wish of removing glasses.