Cataracts Treatment

Question by Vivin: Hi I’m passion with speed cars and racing…please help?
I’m from India, I’m 30 y.o. and I’ve discovered that driving cars, speeding and racing cars are my passion. However, the authority refused to issue me driving license because of my left eye cataract (blind), but I’d like to take car race as my career, are there anyway i could achieve this? Please help. Thanks.

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Answer by 138
Well, if you have enough money to start racing, then you should have enough money to get your eye fixed.

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Question by Defender of America: If “public option” government-run health care (e.g. Medicare) is so great, why is so much NOT covered?
Just a few things that are NOT covered:

# dental care;

# hearing aids or the examinations for prescribing or fitting hearing aids (except for implants to treat severe hearing loss in some cases);

# long-term care, including personal care, such as help with bathing, toileting and dressing (unless homebound and receiving skilled care) and nursing home care (except in a skilled nursing facility if eligible);

# some preventive care, including most routine physical examinations and tests, immunizations, and routine foot care and eye care;

# vision (eye) care, including eyeglasses (except when following cataract surgery) and examinations for prescribing or fitting eyeglasses.

http://www.medicareinteractive.org/page2.php?topic=counselor&page=script&slide_id=215

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Answer by Stuart
Saudi Prince, Now Part Owner of Murdoch’s News Corp., Influences Fox News
Source: ThinkProgress.org, February 10, 2010

Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal now owns a 7 percent stake in Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., the parent company of Fox News, making him the company’s largest shareholder outside of Murdoch’s own family. Alwaleed is best known for going to Ground Zero after the 9/11 World Trade Center attacksand personally handing then-mayor Rudolph Giuliani a check for $ 10 million to help finance relief efforts. Afterwards, Alwaleed released a statement blaming the attacks not on the Saudi airline hijackers, but on U.S. policies in the middle east. As a result, Giuliani returned the prince’s donation, gaining him praise from Fox News for doing so. Now that Alwaleed has a controlling ownership in News Corp., he is gaining influence over Fox News. In 2005, just months after Alwaleed acquired his first 5.4 percent stake in News Corp., Fox News covered riots in Paris under a banner saying “Muslim riots.” Alwaleed allegedly called Murdoch and had him change the banner to say “Civil riots.” Investigative journalist Joseph Trento also reported that a comment he recently made on a Fox Network morning news show, Fox and Friends, about Saudi Arabian money still financing Al Qaeda, was edited out of the show. Trento also reports that Alwaleed “has personally donated huge amounts of money to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers.” In a rareinterview with Fox News’ Neil Cavuto in January, AlWaleed explained his personal reasons for seeking influence in American politics: the U.S. buys Saudi Arabia’s oil, and the bulk of his country’s gross domestic product (GDP) comes from oil. Fox News reliably broadcasts misinformation on clean energy, and aggressively fights efforts to move America away from being dependent on a fossil fuels.

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Question by yuyi: Does the white on my dog’s pupils, mean that it’s cataracts?
I’ve noticed lately that my dog’s eyes, whenever there is light, it looks that there is white in her pupils.

I know that the same condition occurs on aged people, so, I guess my dog that is 13,5 years old can have cataracts as well?

I will definitely visit the vet asap, I just need your opinion and if you ever faced a similar situation with you dog.

Thanksss
It’s not a specific breed… we had found it on the street many years ago and we helped it.
It’s looks like a blue cloudy color, white is a general word for that.
Amon, my dog’s eye looks kinda like this pic:
http://www.marvistavet.com/assets/images/Nuclear_sclerosis.gif

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Answer by Cheshire Cat
What breed is your dog?
I think some herding breeds have that and it’s normal.

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Question by Jake F: Should I get prescription reading glasses?
I really don’t know what to do.

Since I was 11 (14 years ago as I am now 25) or maybe younger I have been wearing glasses. The problem, if indeed it is one, is that during that entire period I have been wearing my distance glasses for absolutely everything including extremely close work and reading music.

Thus, I believe that both sides of my vision are bad. Reading street signs even with my distance glasses is tough, and yet if I take them off I can’t read this computer screen.

If I get reading glasses, will it take some of the strain off of my eyes? (I am referring to the notion that reading with reading glasses would be better than reading with distance glasses.)

What I don’t get is that, when I tell an optician (optometrist? whoever does the eye exam at the eyeglasses store…) that they are for distance, they don’t pick up that since I walked in wearing them that I am wearing them for absolutely everything and that that might be a bad thing.

I asked her about reading glasses and she said “oh you’re still young and you should let your eyes focus naturally while reading” but I forgot to tell her that they are already crap since I have been wearing my distance glasses for everything, and so you should give me reading glasses because that’s what I came here for. But instead I just sheepishly took her comment and ended up leaving with, well, not what I wanted or what I thought I needed.

So basically should I get prescription reading glasses and would it help me?

(The ones at the checkout counter at the drug store don’t work for me, probably because I also have a stigmatism.)

And no, for the time being I am opposed to surgery unless they can knock me out at the door and have me wake up without remembering it. But supposedly they can’t know you out because your eyes move uncontrollably.

I have seen videos of the surgery where they are holding your eyes open with clamps, and I think it is also necessary to do so for laser surgery. I’m not letting anything like that near my eyes if I’m aware of it. And if they have to tie you down to the bed to keep you from batting the doctor’s hands away, then that’s akin to torture. (And even if they tell you that you won’t be able to see it, that’s not true either. A friend of my mom’s had cataract surgery and he could see the curved needle coming down to sew up his eye even though he couldn’t feel it.)

But supposedly they have to keep you aware because, if they out you to sleep, your eyes move all around and they can’t do the surgery.

Well, sorry if this turned into a flaming rant but I will leave it this way to show how concerned and/or scared.

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Answer by Thiective
No problem, as for moving your eyes while sleeping is called rapid eye movement, or REM. Here is an easy solution, get your eyes checked by an optician at a store which sells glasses, at a clinic, not so sure about the drug store, or at the hospital. From there, the optician or the employees will tell and prescribe the prescription glasses you need. The reason I suggested this is because I was worried on whether I need to use glasses or not, turns out on one side its 0 while the other is 25. My cousin isn’t so lucky and she has 50 and 50 on both sides, and we’ve suggested to get her glasses after seeing an optician. As for the laser surgery, I guess its not all that bad, as long as you look good wearing glasses, in my personal opinion, don’t take it, my dad did, and it took me one or two years to get used it, since he looks more better with the glasses on.

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Question by : Question about my dog’s eye?
My dog (who is 3 years old) seems to be having an issue with one of her eyes. Her left pupil appeared to be clouded for a day or two, and today the vet said he wasn’t exactly sure of what was going on, but that it might be an infection. He gave us an ointment to put on her eye and said to check back in a few days. Now, she seems to avoid opening the eye that was clouded and sometimes tries to scratch it. I just looked at both of her eyes and noticed that they were EXTREMELY red underneath her pupils. Does any of this sound familiar? If so, what can I do to help her?

Note: We asked the vet specifically about a cataract – he said that since the cloudiness appeared within a matter of a few days, in addition to her being relatively young, it’s more than likely that it isn’t a cataract.

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Answer by Aussies are my ♥ Dogs
My shih tzu has eye ulcers. The vet can run a dye test to check for them.

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