The cataract eye disease is one of the most common causes of blindness.
Early diagnosis is extremely important: You should see the following symptoms to a doctor.
The eyes are constantly in use, as an important sensory organ, the eye distinguishes around 150 color tones from the spectrum of visible light.
The eye provides us with around 80 percent of all information from the environment that we process in the brain, as informed by planet knowledge.
It is unimaginable that at some point good vision could no longer be possible.
There are a number of eye diseases that damage our organs of vision immensely and can even lead to blindness - these include the so-called cataracts
.
It is a clouding of the lens of the eye that usually occurs with age * and is one of the most common causes of blindness.
In advanced cataracts, you can see a gray color behind the pupil
, which is where the term “cataract” is derived.
A regular check-up by an ophthalmologist prevents the unnoticed progression of an eye disease.
The doctor recognizes a possible impairment of the eye even before the first symptoms.
You should see a doctor at the latest when you notice the following cataract symptoms.
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Cataract symptoms: loss of vision, double vision, foggy vision
The first signs of cataracts manifest themselves in different degrees in each patient, but the following signs are among the
typical cataract symptoms
:
seeing increasingly blurred and blurred, as if through fog or a veil
strong aperture sensitivity
reduced light-dark adaptation
Loss of contrast (poor vision at dusk and at night, resulting in uncertainty when driving a car)
Double vision
Colors fade
Restriction of spatial vision
Degradation of vision near and / or far
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Treating cataracts: No drug treatment possible
Different therapies can be used depending on how quickly a cataract is progressing.
If the eyesight is only slightly impaired and the disease progresses slowly, the poor eyesight can be compensated for with glasses or contact lenses.
However, if the eyesight is already severely impaired and the cataract is progressing rapidly, only an operation will help.
Surgery is the only treatment option to permanently see better.
There are no drugs against cataracts
, as the health information portal of the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care provides.
During the operation, the cloudy lens is removed and a plastic lens inserted.
Every year about 700,000 people undergo this operation, as Gesundheitsinformation.de reports.
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More sources: https://www.planet-wissen.de/natur/sinne/sehen/index.html;
https://www.deutsche-familienversicherung.de/krankenhauszusatzversicherung/ratgeber/artikel/grauer-star-ursachen-symptome-verarbeitung/
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