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Do you have any medicine for cataract? This is a question that some patients or their families often consult doctors, because most patients and their families are a little afraid of "surgical treatment". After all, surgery is a big deal. If it can be treated by topical eye drops or oral or injection drugs, the pain of moving the knife can be avoided.

At present, ophthalmology has a consensus on whether drugs can treat cataracts. The housekeeper specially interviewed Lin Jian, director of the Eye Center of Lufeng People's Hospital, and gave detailed answers to patients and their families who had this question.

Director Lin Jian first told us a case: a 70-year-old rural male old man went to an optical shop for reading glasses after feeling blurred vision, but his vision still didn't improve. The staff of the optical shop told him that it was a cataract. The old man came to the drugstore for consultation, and the clerk recommended an eye drop that claimed to be able to treat cataract, saying that this eye drop can cure cataract every day. After using it for 3 months, the old man's vision has become more blurred, which has seriously affected his life. Accompanied by his family, he went to the eye center of Lufeng People's Hospital for examination.

After detailed examination, the old man was diagnosed with cataract, and his vision was 0.2, which has affected his daily life. You can consider surgery. Patients and their families are puzzled: Why are eye drops ineffective?

Director Lin explained: At present, there is no medicine for curing cataract in the medical field. At present, the only way to cure cataract is surgery, which can improve vision by removing cloudy lens and implanting artificial lens. Because there is no medicine that can be reversed after a person's lens becomes turbid, the so-called "eye drops for treating cataract" on the market at present all exaggerate their efficacy, which leads many cataract patients in unknown so to buy and use them, which not only wastes money, but also delays the operation time.

Cataract is a common blinding eye disease, which mostly occurs in the elderly. Mainly due to the slow metabolism of the elderly, the lens gradually becomes cloudy and hard, which leads to the inability of light to enter the fundus through the lens, thus reducing vision. If surgery is not performed in time, it will affect daily life due to decreased vision.

Although cataracts are inevitable at a certain age, director Lin Jian said that cataracts can be delayed as long as the diet is reasonable and some eye protection methods are paid attention to, and even cataracts may not occur in a lifetime:

It is best for the elderly to wear sunglasses when they go out during the day, which can reduce the harm of ultraviolet rays in the sun to their eyes.

Drink plenty of water at ordinary times to maintain normal metabolism in the body.

Eat less salt, don't smoke, and drink red wine in moderation.

To control blood sugar, hyperglycemia can lead to fundus lesions and cataracts.

In terms of daily food, eat more foods with high vitamin content, such as spinach, green beans, Chinese cabbage, spinach, corn, apples, oranges, citrus, grapefruit and so on. In addition, fish, animal livers and eggs should be eaten more, but they should be less spicy and not greasy when cooking.

For patients who have been diagnosed with cataract, the doctor will evaluate the patient's physical condition according to the examination results and judge whether it is suitable for surgery and the timing of surgery. Cataract does not need to wait until it is "cooked" before surgery. If the lens of cataract is too "mature", that is, the lens may be too hard, which increases the difficulty of surgery.

For those eye drops that claim to treat cataracts, these drugs may have a certain effect on delaying the occurrence and development of early cataracts, but they cannot cure cataracts. Cataract finally needs surgery to restore clear vision. Therefore, after cataract patients are diagnosed, they don't need to seek medication. As long as they are careful not to overuse their eyes and go to the hospital regularly, doctors can master the operation time and perform the operation.

After listening to the professional ophthalmologist's explanation, have your doubts been eliminated? Don't waste money on drugs that exaggerate their effects. Trusting doctors is more reliable than trusting advertisements.