Cataracts

My Cataract Surgery and Recovery Experience
Cataract Surgery Is Not Your Mother's Surgery
Cataract surgery once considered a major operation. Years ago, a large incision with a knife would be made on the eye to take out the cataract lens. This calls for a higher chance of infection. A patient would stay in the hospital at least a week. Recovery rate could take up to six months. Today an intraocular lens (IOL) is implanted following a small incision. Replacing the existing crystalline lens clouded over by a cataract. A very simple procedure taking around fifteen minutes to perform...

Recovery from Cataract Surgery
What to Expect from Cataract Surgery
Have you been told that you have cataracts and that you should have them removed? If you have, you will have questions about the process that faces you. I have recently had cataract surgery on both eyes. I will share my experience with you here. I also invite other people to leave comments about their own cataract procedures, their recovery from the surgery and their vision improvement afterwards. As well as plenty of factual information, this lens contains a video of a modern cataract surge...

Cataracts In Kids
Cataracts in Children
When people think of cataracts, most people think of adults when it comes to this problem. Children can have it too and I was one of them. In children it is called Congenital Cataracts. My cataracts was not found out until I was about three years old. Looking back, there were signs that I had a problem, but you do not always think of it until you are faced with the problem head on. I was two years old when I started walking. Seeing and learning something goes hand in hand.