Posts tagged with "cataracts"
Latest Discovery of True Risk Factors for Age-Related Cataract
Usage of medicines which augment sensitiveness to the sun’s rays, alongside being exposed to sunlight seems to be linked to the risk of developing a prevalent form of Cataract, according to a recent study finding.
Apart from aging, identification of numerous risk factors for commonly occurring forms of cataract have been made. These include being diabetic, high blood pressure and smoking. Sun’s light and being exposed to UVB (ultraviolet B) rays have been observed to be linked to cortical or peripheral cataract and cloudiness developing initially on the external borders of the lens. Several medicines taken orally or via jab have been found to intensify sensitiveness to sunlight leading to symptoms like itchiness or rashes on skin following sun exposure.
For ascertaining whether such drugs [...]
Cataract Surgery and IOL Implants
Cataract surgery is a vital form of eye surgery for treating vision-disturbing cataracts that are progressively more prevalent reason for diminished eye sight related to aging and prevalent reason for eyesight loss in above fifty year old elderly people. Among this aged bracket the widely used forms of operations deemed safe and effectual conducted are Cataract Surgery with IOL or Intralocular Lens Implant.
A harrowing estimate of nearly forty million over sixty-five years of age would be inflicted with this ocular problem and by 2020 about fifty-five million senior citizens would be affected with cataract.
Cataract surgeries are vision restorative procedures involving implantation of small, permanent, man-made Intralocular Lens Implants (IOL) for attaining eyesight rectification. The brief [...]
