Cataract, a disease that comes with age
There are different types of cataract but the most common is senile, which usually begins to occur between 50 and 60 years. The only treatment is surgery, which thanks to technological advances is little risky
Dr. Carlos Romo Arpio
The most frequent cause of cataract is the senile cataract, which is secondary to age. With age the lens, which is the inner lens having the eye, begins to change. The first signs of these changes are experienced as 40-50 years, when power is lost to focus. This lens is usually soft and has the ability to change its shape to focus. Later, after harden and lose that power to focus, it begins to overshadow forming what is known as a cataract.
There are also secondary cataracts drug secondary to metabolic changes such as diabetes and congenital cataracts exist, but the most common cataracts are age - related.
Slow the progression of cataract
It has been found that a good diet and even nutritional supplements help slow the progression of cataract. Logically exposure to certain drugs, such as steroids, can accelerate this process. But you can not stop it now. Cataract affects both men and women.
The intraocular lens
The only treatment is surgical currently. Cataract extraction is based on removing the lens while maintaining its cover, which is the capsule, so that in this place an intraocular lens is introduced.
The intraocular lens is oriented to patient needs, for example, if the patient wants to keep distant, intermediate and near vision are multifocal lenses that can give them the three ranges of vision. If the patient has astigmatism are toric lenses, which help correct. And if the patient requires only distant / intermediate or near vision can put a monofocal lens that provides excellent optical quality.
combined treatment
The latest technique to remove the cataract is with a combined question, this is femtosecond laser, which helps make the incision, capsulorhexis, which is the entrance to the bag and helps to divide the cataract and then remove it with facoemulsificasión which it is a kind of ultrasound destroys the hardness of the cataract and absorbed.
The view is restored completely if the patient has no other ocular alteration added and recovered to 100%.
Recovery is almost immediate. When a patient is operated cataract topical anesthesia is used and practically out seeing almost perfectly, sometimes when the falls are harder and more power is needed to destroy tend to swell a little. rest 1 to 2 weeks is recommended depending on the case, but today incisions are so small that no longer even points are needed, the risk is very low.