Cataract Surgery

Cataract is a progressive eye condition that effects your vision to become blurry. This is due to the faulty lens in your eye where a white cloud gradually gets collected causing the patient to have difficulty in vision loss.

In such cases, the Ophthalmologist replaces this faulty lens with an artificial lens. In most of the cases, the patient does not even need to stay in the hospital after the surgery is done, i.e. the patient gets this surgery done on outpatient basis.

What are the symptoms for Cataract?

Some of the common symptoms of Cataract are:

• Blurry vision
• Eyesight getting sensitive to the glare from lights
• Daily-life activities getting effected due to vision loss

Other symptoms of Cataract are age related, i.e.:

• Macular degeneration (a medical condition that results in blurred or no vision in the center of the visual field)
• Diabetic eye problems
• Other common eye diseases

Cataract Surgery Recovery

• The most concerned aspect of Cataract surgery is its recovery period from removal of the cataract to the restoration of the visual function after the procedure.
• First follow-up: After the surgery, you are asked to visit the ophthalmologist within the first few days.
• Second follow-up: In the second follow-up, you are asked to visit the ophthalmologist within the first few weeks, followed by the prescription of eye drops to reduce the inflammation and protect your eye from developing infection.
• In majority cases, many patients get back to their daily activities, within a few days of the procedure. In some cases, the doctor prescribes their patient to have a pair of glasses temporarily. However, the patient is asked to have several visits to the doctor so that he can monitor the patient’s eyes for any sign of complications.

Types of cataract surgery

There are multiple ways to remove cataract, depending on the patient’s eye condition. They are as follows:

• Phacoemulsification
• Extracapsular Cataract Surgery
• FLACS