Cataracts Treatment

Question by Maegen: Does my dog’s eye need to be removed because of lens puncture?
My cat scratched my dog in the eye this evening and we rushed her to the emergency vet, who referred us to an ophthalmologist. The cataract surgery to save her vision will cost us $ 5000, which we do not have. The only other option he has given us is removing the eye. But don’t dogs in the wild get scratched all the time? Nobody is there removing their eyes in the wild. Would she not just form a cataract and go blind in the eye? While in an ideal world I’d save her vision, I don’t want her to go without an eye, either. Is there a reason she must have the eye out?

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Answer by Diana
Your thinking here is completely unreasonable. Dogs in the wild hardly every get into fights with cats and the likelihood of a dog and cat fighting is slim to nil. Because we have domesticated them and put them in the same household together predisposes canines and felines to more trauma by the other.

If surgery is not possible, then enucleation of the eye is warrented. If not, your dog could devolop an infection in the eye, which will travel up the optic nerve to your dogs brain. Then you will have a dog with a brain abscess to treat.

Dog missing eyes do fine. They learn to compensate by using their other senses. I have 2 one-eyed poodles (due to glaucoma) that have both gone blind and they do great. I had a foster dog that had her eye removed and she was adopted and doing great.

The surgery isn’t nececcary because of the cateract, it’s because of the lens puncture that will not heal and get infected and cause other problems.

If you have questions regarding the surgery and quality of life, you really should be talking to the doctor treating your dog.

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Question by joahann: Do I have small eyes because I was born with cataracts?
Every eye doctor I see will remind me that my eyes are smaller than normal. Only a few people have been able to notice right away because the difference is less than 2mm diameter. I haven’t seen an eye doctor for a couple of years and didn’t think to ask before. Do you think that the cataract surgery at such a young age (2 weeks) is related to having smaller eyes as an adult?

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Answer by princeidoc
you’re asking if the cataract extraction PROCEDURE caused your small eyes? probably not.

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Question by expalliarmus: do you expect a person who has the lens of his eye removed because of cataract to be able to see UV radiation
do you expect a person who has had the lens of his eye removed because of cataract to be able to see ultaviolet radiation? why or why not?…plss…do answer….

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Answer by fatdadslim
once a person has a cataract removed a small optical piece is put back into the eye called.an intro occular lens.which brings his vision back to what it was befor the cataract grew

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question by Annalise : Do you expect a man to be the lens of the eye because of cataract is removed, it can ..?, to see UV rays? Why or why not? best answer:

response not
cornea and UV filters. Also, we saw no sensors in the retina, only red, blue and green. I do not know the spectral sensitivity of rods (low light-cells), it is possible that they are sensitive to UV light at a low level, but they are disabled in daylight, which is produced in the most-UV (sun). what do you mean? Answer below!

Why or why not?