While cataracts are most often associated with natural aging, cataracts can develop in anyone, regardless of age. Causes of premature cataracts include injury, disease, radiation exposure, reaction to prescription medications, congenital conditions, eye surgery, and lifestyle choices such as smoking and obesity. Congenital cataracts will likely be treated right away to help prevent vision loss […]
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The key to preventing vision loss, changes to vision, and the development of eye conditions such as cataracts, begins with regular eye exams. By scheduling your annual exam with CLIENT NAME, testing will evaluate the health of your eyes as well as provide you with treatment options that include prevention of certain eye diseases. While studies […]
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The development of cataracts is a concern for most people as they grow older. Cataracts are very common as, more than half of Americans aged 80 older either have a cataract or have had cataract removal surgery. Oddly enough, primary cataracts are common in those over the age of 60, but secondary cataracts occur more […]
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Cataracts develop gradually and are classified in four 4 stages. Delaying treatment for cataracts is rarely an option as surgery is almost always inevitable. Left untreated, the greatest risk for not removing a cataract is vision impairment, vision loss, or even blindness. Cataracts are the clouding the lens of the eye. Typically, due to aging, […]
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One of the disadvantages to having cataracts is the eventual progression of impacted vision. As Because cataracts develop gradually in stages, at some point patients will find it difficult to drive at night, due to both low-light conditions as well as glares or halos around light. Cataracts cause light to be distorted especially at night, […]
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With any distortion to vision, color perception may also be affected. Cataracts are the clouding of the eye’s natural lens and progress gradually in four4 stages. In each of these stages, not only does the cataract itself change color but in addition to blurred or cloudy vision, can make certain hues look faded or tinted. […]
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As the eyes age, the normally clear lens of the eye that focuses light behind the iris and pupil begins to turn yellow and clouded due to a breakdown of proteins. Vision then becomes hazy or blurry like looking through a frosted or fogged-up window. When a cataract interferes with a person’s ability to complete […]
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Cataracts usually develop simply due to natural aging, most common in people aged 60 or older. More than half of Americans aged 80 or older have cataracts or have had cataract removal surgery. Cataracts are a slow, progressive development over many years eventually causing blurry vision. In fact, often people are unaware that they have […]
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After successful cataract surgery, cataracts will not return. There is a condition known as secondary cataracts that is often confused with the return of cataracts after surgery, but they are not the same. To better understand the difference, it is important to know what cataracts are, how they develop and the outcome of cataract surgery. […]
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Most cataracts develop due to the natural aging process or from an eye injury. Inherited genetic disorders, eye health conditions and medications such as long-term use of steroid medications can also lead to cataract development. Cataracts form when protein builds up in the lens keeping light from passing through the eye resulting in cloudy vision. […]
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