Cataracts Treatment

Question by desiree_jade410: water dragon eye problem?
i have a 2yo male chinese water dragon. hes in shed right now and i always keep an eye on him when hes in shed, esp his crest, toes and tail. while i was lookin him over, i noticed his right eye didnt look right. i grabbed a small flash light, and it looks foggy. like a dog with cataracts..i WILL be calling my vet in the morning, but would like to know what ppl think this could be from? he is about 3 feet long, in an enclosure that is a lil over 6′ tall, 4′ wide and 3′deep, has 12 hours of uv, basking spot of 90, water bowls and pools, eating crickets, mealies, supers, earth worms he gets a pinkie once a week, and at 1 feeding once a week ill give him 4 or 5 wax worms..anything that moves and i give to him he eats. all calcium dusted, and gets vitamins twice a week.

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Answer by Sean Altman
No shit sherlock moment but that does not sound good. Ive heard of it happening but never found out what it was. Best bet is to call your vet.

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Question by mimie j: eye problem?
1) i have one small white dot on the middle of the pupil.. do you think it’s cataracts? i had it since baby..

2) i have short-sightness on my left eye and long-sightness on my right eye.. what do you call this?

3) i have really ugly eye bags and dark circles! i hate make-up, so any suggestion to cover it?

well i’m so weird.. got lots of problem.. -_-II

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Answer by programmer
go to a nearest clinic for a testing .

wash your eyes with clean water.

do excercise your eyes .

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Question by blauers: Dwarf Hamster eye Problem.
I was handling my dwarf hamster a little bit today, and i noticed a greyish spot in her right eye. It is right in them middle of her eye, and i don’t know if it’s cataracts or anything to do with glaucoma.
also, does anyone know how much it would cost to go to the vet for something like this

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Answer by Johnny X
She may be going blind, i would check with a vet asap

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Question by Tom P: Eye-sight problem after cataract surgery.?
After having surgery on both eyes images are larger with my left eye than they are with my right. I estimate a diff. of 25%. The lens implant for my left is identical to my right except for the diopter. The L. is +26.0 and the R is +26.5 – - When I complained to my Dr. he said that my problem was simply like one arm being longer than the other. I did not have the problem before surgery.

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Answer by cveyedoc
How long ago have you had surgery? Typically one eye is operated on before the other. If you have recently had the second eye completed, there might be a slight adaptation period as your eye heals and adjusts to vision with a new implant. Second, it is a good idea to have a full refraction to double check the finalized prescription. If you have a residual prescription that may cause a slight image difference between the eyes.

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Question by kirchwey: Eye’s optical problem: perhaps asphericity?
I am nearsighted but corrected, have hardly any accommodation capability, and have been told I have incipient cataracts. The optometrist says my retinas are fine. Over the past couple of years I have noticed a strange phenomenon: my corrected vision is pretty good at night and at light levels comparable to the optometrist’s eye chart, but in bright light it gets blurry. I don’t think it’s because of cataracts (I don’t notice any fogging) but it could be due to an asphericity of the lens or of the eyeball surface, which could cause the average focal length to change as the iris opening changes between wide and narrow. So my question is, would a lens replacement (the recommended remedy for the cataracts) fix the focus problem, or is eyeball surface asphericity a possible cause? Do cataracts change the lens shape? Are there other possible causes given that the retinas are healthy?
If you go to the trouble of answering this question, I’d appreciate your also bookmarking it (e.g., watch-list it) and revisiting it in case I have a followup question. For instance, I would want to know the reasoning behind an answer I don’t fully understand. Thank-you.

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Answer by aggie_87
If you have problems with accommodation, a solution might be a specific type of intraocular lens called apodized diffractive lens.
See this link: http://www.acrysofrestor.com/
This lens is similar to the ones that have been used for a long time for cataract surgery, but has specialized optics to give accommodative and refractive correction. This lens takes advantage of the phenomenon you describe about focal length changing with iris opening (pupil diameter) change and focuses the image where it needs to be (pseudoaccommodation). I don’t know if asphericity or cataracts would cause this problem in your case or not. Cataracts can change the lens shape. They not only make it yellowish or cloudy, but hard or rigid, so it is harder to accommodate. Good for you for educating yourself so well on your condition!

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