For those who have cataracts, seeing through cloudy lenses is similar to looking through a frosty or fogged-up window. A cataract is a clouding of the normally clear lens of your eye.
Reading, driving a car (especially at night), and recognizing a friend’s expression can all be more challenging when one has cataracts-related vision impairment.
Though most cataracts develop gradually and initially don’t impair your vision, they eventually cause vision problems.
You can manage cataracts at first with better lighting and eyeglasses, but if your daily activities are affected, you may require cataract surgery, which is fortunately a generally safe, successful procedure.
The majority of cataracts are caused by the lens-forming tissue of your eye changing as you age or suffer an injury.
In addition to other eye conditions, medical conditions like diabetes, trauma, previous eye surgery, and long-term steroid medication use, cataracts can also be brought on by inherited genetic disorders that increase your risk of developing them and other health issues.
How a cataract forms
The lens, which is behind the colored portion of your eye (iris), is where cataracts develop. The lens focuses light entering your eye, creating clear, sharp images on the retina, the light-sensitive membrane that serves as the equivalent of a camera’s film on the back inside wall of your eyeball.
Your vision becomes blurry as a result of a cataract, which scatters light as it travels through the lens and blocks your retina from receiving a sharp image.
Age-related changes lead to tissues within the lens breaking down and clumping together, clouding small areas within the lens, and as the cataract progresses, the clouding becomes denser and involves a larger portion of the lens. As you age, your eye’s lenses become less flexible, less transparent, and thicker.
Even though cataracts can affect just one eye, they typically affect both of your eyes. However, the cataracts are typically not perfectly symmetrical, and one eye may have a more advanced case of the condition than the other.
Types of cataracts
Cataract types include:
Cataracts that affect the center of the lens (nuclear cataracts).Your reading vision may temporarily improve or you may initially become more nearsighted as a result of a nuclear cataract, but over time the lens gradually darkens and becomes more densely yellow, further obscuring your vision.
Advanced lens yellowing or browning can impair the ability to distinguish between color shades as the cataract slowly progresses.
Cataracts that affect the edges of the lens (cortical cataracts).White, wedge-shaped opacities or streaks on the cortex’s outer edge are the first signs of a cortical cataract.
People with cortical cataracts frequently complain of glare problems because the streaks gradually extend to the center of the lens and obstruct light passing through the center of the lens.
Cataracts that affect the back of the lens (posterior subcapsular cataracts).Beginning as a tiny, opaque spot, a posterior subcapsular cataract typically develops close to the lens’s posterior portion, directly in the light’s path to the retina.
Reading vision is frequently affected by a posterior subcapsular cataract, as is vision in bright light, and glare or haloes around lights at night.
Cataracts you’re born with (congenital cataracts).Some people either have cataracts from birth or get them as they get older; this can happen if the mother had an infection while she was pregnant.
Congenital cataracts don’t always impair vision, but if they do they’re typically removed shortly after discovery. These cataracts may also be brought on by specific conditions like myotonic dystrophy, galactosemia, Lowe’s syndrome, or rubella.
Cataracts can cause the following signs and symptoms.
- vision that is hazy, fuzzy, or dim
- Nighttime vision is becoming more challenging.
- Luminous and glare sensitivity
- Seeing “halos” around lights
- prescription for glasses or contacts changing frequently
- colors fading or turning yellow
- One eye experiencing double vision
As a cataract grows larger, it clouds more of your lens and distorts the light passing through it, which may cause signs and symptoms you’re more likely to notice. At first, the cloudiness in your vision caused by a cataract may only affect a small portion of the eye’s lens, and you may be unaware of any vision loss.
HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES
In the early stages of the disease, when there may be stigmatism, presbyopia, and weakness of the internal recti muscle, use Causticum 1000, one of the most effective treatments for cataract.
CALCREA FLOUR 30- AND SULPHUR 200-Give Calcarea flour 30 three times daily at a 5 hour interval for the remaining days. In the later stages, Sulphur 200 should be administered every two weeks in a 200 dilution.
CINERARIA MARITIMA 3XWhen treating cataracts and corneal opacities, the herb Cineraria mar. is frequently used as eye drops and is renowned for its curative effect. It should be used for 3–6 months, with 2–3 drops in each eye, three times per day.
COLCHICUM AUTUMNALE30- Here, the pupils are uneven, the left eye’s pupil is contracted, and the vision becomes dim after reading. Colchicum is also used for cataract, particularly the soft variety.
PHOSPHORUS 200-A black spot is seen to float before the eyes, a green halo is seen around candlelight, printed letters appear red, and there is severe burning of the eyes. Phosphorus is one of the effective remedies for cataract and may be tried if the above remedies do not work within three months.
SILICEA- 200– Silicea is beneficial for treating corneal ulcers, post-injury symptoms, and cataracts in office workers.
Every two weeks, sulphur is administered as an intercurrent remedy along with calcarea flour to treat cataracts that cause a sinking sensation in the pit of the stomach, heat to rise to the face, and a fainting sensation when getting into the bath.
ZINCUM SULPH. 1000Zincum sulph, which is rarely administered and clears up corneal opacities, is very effective for treating cataracts.
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