Ophthalmologists talk about eye diseases: Are you still taking medicine if you have cataracts? It’s useless!

Cataract is the leading cause of blindness in the elderly, especially as China gradually enters an aging society, the number of elderly people with cataract increases significantly. Therefore, the various formal and informal advertisements for cataract drugs on the market are dazzling, and as a non-ophthalmologist, it is difficult to effectively distinguish them. Today we will talk about how to correctly treat cataracts.

Don't wait until you can't see it before you seek treatment.

The older you are, the higher the prevalence of cataracts, which can lead to blindness in severe cases. Although the prevalence of senile cataracts is high, many elderly people still have little knowledge of cataracts. Many elderly people are afraid of surgery, and would rather delay it than undergo surgery as long as their vision is barely visible, or take some medicine based on advertisements on the market, and only think of going to the hospital for treatment when they can no longer see.

Delaying cataract surgery is harmful

The above cataract patients not only live in a blurred world in their later years, but are also easily deceived by drug treatments, thus delaying the opportunity for surgical treatment and wasting a lot of money. Even if they undergo cataract surgery in the future, it will not be conducive to post-operative vision recovery. What's more serious is that because they are in a state of blurred vision and their children are not around, clinically there are often cases of elderly people falling, falling, or even fractures due to blurred vision.

Ophthalmologist: Drugs cannot cure cataracts

Dr. Zhou Li, associate chief physician, deputy leader of the Cataract Group of Aier Eye Hospital Group in Hubei Province, and deputy director of the Cataract and Presbyopia Department of Aier Eye Hospital Affiliated to Wuhan University (Aier Eye Hospital Group Hubei General Hospital), reminds us that currently there is no drug in the world that can cure cataracts. It can only delay the progression of early cataracts, but in fact has no definite therapeutic effect on cataracts.

Director Zhou Li repeatedly reminded that cataract surgery is the only effective way to treat cataracts. In clinical practice, we often encounter some elderly cataract patients who delay the treatment of cataracts due to believing in the propaganda of some eye patches and drugs, which affects the postoperative effect.