Cataracts: alternative treatments?herbs?!
Question: was diagnosised with being cataracts last year. Have a eye appointment this month. Any alternative treatment ideas? Like how to strengthen capilliares, corneas, etc?
Answers: was diagnosised with being cataracts last year. Have a eye appointment this month. Any alternative treatment ideas? Like how to strengthen capilliares, corneas, etc?
Many, many people have cataracts. Cataracts are a foggy area in the lens of the eye. Not the surface cornea, but the lens behind the colored part or iris.
The lens begins as an indentation of the epithelium of the surface of the fore-brain of the embryo. As the optic versicle forms, it gets bigger and closer to the outside of the embryo. As this optic cup forms, it contacts or induces the skin layer or epithelium to grow inward. This in-growth starts as a dent, then forms a bigger dent and eventually forms a ball that is newly located inside the front of the optic cup. The outer layer of the lens is the basement membrane of the epithelium of the skin.
As the lens is derived from the skin layer, anything that causes skin disease can have lens changes too. Psoriasis for instance, causes severe skin problems, but also causes changes in the lens. As the lens gets foggy, one way or another, it stops being clear, and vision is affected.
This foggy lens is called a cataract. There are many types of cataracts. Whether or not you do anything about the cataract depends on how much it limits your vision, if it does any limiting. Diabetics, for instance, get small white streaks or spots in the lens. People with congenital rubella get small dots in the center or nucleus of the lens. Trauma causes a ring, so to speak, of lens changes. As the lens grows throughout life, one can look at a lens and sort of see that person's history, like rings of a tree.
The limiting problem with cataracts depends on the person and his/her activities. If the lens is foggy outside the center axis, the vision may not be affected at all. But if the center areas are involved, the light will be absorbed or scattered causing decreased vision or glare.
In people that have had certain types of ocular inflammation such as iritis or uveitis, or a retinal detachment or some other type of retinitis or choroiditis or ?-itis... the lens just beneath the posterior capsule can get grainy or have bubbles or sandy like changes. This really causes bad glare with headlights or sunlight. Steroids can cause this type of posterior subcapsular cataract.
The treatment now takes about 10 minutes of actual surgery time. It used to take an hour! They now replace the lens with a plastic lens or silicone lens or even a bendable lens that sort of helps in focusing up close. Some people get one eye for distance and the other for near.
The people that have dark lenses, brown lenses, or foggy lenses can't WAIT to get the other eye done once the first eye is done....
There are few if ANY herbs or miracle exercises or vision therapies or treatments that can 'fix' your vision. Most are scams. People will swear about this or that therapy or vision plan, but in reality, there's no way eye exercises or vision treatments are going to make an anatomically long eye, shorter, or a 'too strong' eye, weaker. How that would remove a foggy lens with exercises is sort of beyond my ability to understand. Sort of like eating bark to remove wrinkles on the back of your hand. (just made that up....don't try it...)
People have cataracts done or lens surgery done just for refractive reasons, like LASEK. Seems to be a pretty common sense way to go. That way the ocular surface isn't insulted or damaged. And the ocular surface is the part that keeps the eye safe from all those germs and pollens, and antigens and insects, and bacteria and viruses, and parasites, and toxins, and poisons, and hair spray and shampoo and.....
Sorry , there is no other treatment for cataracts except surgery to remove the lens of the eye.
It is the most common surgery done in North America....and has a 98% success rate.
It is such a simple procedure now compared to 30 years ago.
It used to mean almost week in the hospital...now you go home an hour or so after it is done.
Good luck...and don't worry...it will be simple and go very well.
Everyone usually gets cataracts it is caused by the sun and aging. Everyone is born with a natural lens that lens turns into a cataract. There are only two ways of treating cataracts continue to get glasses prescriptions renewed for clearer vision or cataracts surgery. Just because you have been diagnosed with cataracts doesnt mean you need surgery. You have to qualify have worse then 20/50 vision in dim light room or have significant complaints for the insurance to cover the surgery. Most surgeons do one eye at a time 2 weeks apart. You go home the same day and usually have a next day post op appointment. You usually use antiobiotic drops and steriod drops to control inflammation. The procedure is called phacomulsification which does require small incision temporally in each eye. The procedure it self takes 8 mins. Good luck