Cataracts Treatment

Question by gua: Brown eyes is more vulnerable to sunlight cataracts compared to blue eyes. Is this bad considering I have brow?
n eyes since I’m from China and I’ve never worn shades during summertime?

However, a study in 2000 suggests that people with dark brown eyes are at increased risk of developing cataracts and therefore should protect their eyes from direct exposure to sunlight.[56]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_color

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Answer by Scott
I got green eyes.. I should be Ok

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Question by Eva L: Have a lazy eye and cataract. Which is more important to fix first?
I had a bad eye injury a few years ago that really messed up my eye.

I had a detached retina which I had to have surgery on and lost my vision in that eye. Over time it started crossing and developed a cataract. It didn’t look that bad at first so I was going to leave it alone. The turn was very small and the cataract was just a haze.

Now my eye is turning in a lot and I look very “cross eyed” plus the cataract has completely filled in and you can’t see much of my iris.

I feel like my eye is very sensitive and don’t want too much surgery at once, so which ever surgery I get I wont do the other one for a while. But I don’t know what to first.

What would you do? I know most people can’t relate to this

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Answer by Ashley
i would say the lazy eye. that way you can kind of get used to what it will be like with 2 straight eyes before getting rid of the cataract, because it seems like if you got rid of the cataract first, you would get used to your vision being unlined, and then it would be weird to get it fixed, i hope i explained it ok, lol.

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Question by Tim: Tell me more about secondary cataract, membrane and laser?

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Answer by princeidoc
a lot of people call this an “after-cataract” or say that their cataract “came back”. neither is particularly accurate IMO.

i call this “posterior iol opacification” (iol = intraocular lens), and its usually caused by your body growing new fibers and/or cells onto the backside of your artificial intraocular lens that was implanted during your cataract extraction procedure.

the “fix” is yag laser capsulotomy, an outpatient laser procedure that burns the cells/fibers off, or at least burns a hole in them. fast, easy, very successful, very low risk. something like 35% of all cataract extraction surgeries need this extra procedure later, so its really common.

the fact that “after cataracts” are removed with laser causes much confusion among patients. they think that you can have “laser” to remove cataracts, which is untrue. cataract extraction surgery is a “real” surgery with a scalpel, not a laser procedure. but removal of posterior iol opacities in a person who has already had cataract extraction is done with a yag laser as described above….

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My dog has a cataract on one of her eyes. She never used to bark alot, but now she does. She barks alot when someone enters the house, even at people who live here that she is used to. Is this because she can’t see who she is barking at very well or what? What should i do?