Cataract is a disease in which the ocular lens or its capsule loses its transparency. This disease develops as a natural aging process in most cases, but some eye diseases that violate the moisture composition in the anterior and posterior chamber can also lead to it. This moisture is the only source of nutrition for the lens, because he is devoid of nerves and blood vessels, due to which he could receive nutrients with blood.
Symptoms of eye cataract
The first symptoms of cataracts usually occur in 40-50 years, when opacities appear on the lens, because of which light is poorly perceived by the retina, and accordingly, vision is reduced.
About cataracts speak such signs:
- decreased visual acuity;
- a feeling of blurriness and fogging when trying to concentrate on the subject;
- change the color of the pupil (becomes lighter or even white);
- when a bright light source appears, a blinding aureole appears;
- development of myopia.
The same symptoms are also characteristic of secondary cataracts, in which the posterior capsule of the lens is clouded.
Modern methods of cataract treatment
More recently, the only cataract treatment has been surgery, but today the medicine has a number of other methods that can also be effective.
Surgical cataract treatment
One of the modern surgical methods today is cataract treatment with a laser. This operation does not take much time, is carried out under local anesthesia, in the quality of which drops are used. During the operation, the patient is replaced by the lens, clearing before it clouded fibers (crushing with a laser beam, the optimal length of which is 1.44 microns). Today, surgical intervention is considered one of the most effective methods of treating this disease, but today the medicine has all the conditions for the operation to be carried out without risk and with maximum comfort for the patient, which makes this method now more acceptable.
Another modern surgical method for treating cataracts is ultrasound phacoemulsification. Its essence is that the crushing of the lens occurs under the influence of ultrasound, after which these fragments are sucked from the eye by aspiration.
Cataract treatment with homeopathy
Homeopathic remedies are used in the early stages of cataract development, and they only slow down the process of staining. One of them is silica Silicea, which feeds the tissue according to some homeopaths.
Medication
This method of treatment, as well as homeopathy, is not able to cure completely of cataracts, but with the help of medications one can slow down the development of pathology. To do this, apply various vitamins and drops that feed the lens. In September 2011, it became known that a group of scientists from Australia, in collaboration with Calpain Therapeutics, had created a drug that is really capable of slowing the development of cataracts, which is proved by testing the drug.
Methods of cataract treatment depending on the stage of the disease
Treatment of mature cataracts
Mature cataracts are appropriate to be removed surgically: at this time, the lens fibers are cloudy, and are more easily separated from the capsule. It can be considered that this is the only method that can eliminate all the limitations that cataracts of the late stage give.
Treatment of immature cataracts
Cataract, which was formed relatively recently, and is accompanied by a slight decrease in vision, you can try to treat homeopathy and medications, that is, regularly hold supportive therapy. If the expectation of complete loss of vision due to cataract is unacceptable, then it is better to perform a laser operation, since it is used for working with solid nuclei, in contrast to ultrasound.