If you have cataracts, you must not put it off!

Cataract is a common eye disease. As people age, they are at risk of developing cataracts. However, many people do not know that delaying the treatment of cataracts can lead to many adverse consequences.

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Impact on quality of life

There is a long process from the onset of cataract to the maturity stage. If you delay treatment, you will have to live in a blurry world for a long time. Many cataract patients are middle-aged and elderly people. Seeing things more and more blurry will bring many inconveniences to life. If you accidentally fall and get injured while walking because of blurred vision, it will be even more costly.

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Increased difficulty of surgery

When cataracts become serious, the hardness of the lens nucleus will increase, increasing the operation time and risk, and in severe cases it may damage the cornea and cause lesions.

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Cause other eye diseases

Severe cataracts can cause other eye diseases, such as complications such as glaucoma, uveitis, and even loss of vision.

Don't expect medication to cure cataracts!

At the current level of medical development, there is no drug that can prevent or reverse cataracts. Many elderly people are afraid of surgery. As long as their vision is still barely visible, they would rather delay surgery than have surgery, or hope to use eye drops for treatment. Currently, the only scientific and effective way to treat cataracts is surgery.

Don’t wait until the cataract is “ripe” before having surgery!

Hua Xia, president of Tianjin University Aier Eye Hospital, said that many people have such a misunderstanding that it is not necessary to have surgery in the early stage of cataracts. In fact, it is not true. In the process of cataracts developing to maturity, other eye complications are likely to occur. If the physical condition allows, surgical treatment should be carried out in time, and do not delay the treatment time. If the cataract is over-mature, the greater the time and energy used for ultrasonic pulverization, the greater the damage to the eyes and the greater the risk of surgery. Therefore, once cataracts affect life, they can receive surgical treatment.

Surgery can solve cataracts and presbyopia at the same time!

Some patients who suffer from cataracts also suffer from presbyopia. After cataract surgery, they cannot avoid wearing reading glasses. In fact, whether or not to wear glasses is largely related to the choice of artificial lens. For patients who suffer from cataracts and presbyopia at the same time, by implanting different types of functional artificial lenses, while treating cataracts, they can also correct myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism, and presbyopia, achieving full-range vision at far, medium, and near distances.