The main causes for the development of cataracts: diabetes and age greater than 50 years.
The ophthalmologist of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) in Jalisco, Jaime Carrillo Ceja, said that among the main causes for the development of cataracts, is diabetes and age greater than 50 years, due to organic deterioration.
The cataract, a disease that causes opacity in a structure located in the front of the eye called crystalline.
He emphasized that with age, the organism "changes totally and does not only do it externally but that the changes also occur internally, as well as the skin ages, gray hair appears, the bones become weaker, the tissues are weakenedocular and form this evil. "
He indicated that 50% of the consultations with the ophthalmologist is for this disease, which usually affects both eyes slowly and progressively, so it is recommended that in the face of any alteration in view, the realization of a visual acuity test by personnel by personneltrained.
He said that the main symptom of a cataract is the progressive loss of visual acuity that is manifested by blurred vision and stressed that although age favors its appearance does not exclude young people from suffering from it, this in close relation to the appearance of diabetes at agesearly.
He affirmed that since it is a degenerative process in most cases, the cataract is difficult to prevent, in addition to appearing in a structure such as the lens which lacks blood supply and therefore does not receive nutrients that help fight it.
To diagnose the cataracts, a cleft lamp is needed, this tool can only be handled by an ophthalmologist, this review has an approximate duration of 20 minutes, where the pupil is dilated to the patient to be able to carry that study, he said.
The only treatment that exists for this visual deficiency is surgical and consists of placing an intraocular lens which will return at least 80% of the vision that is had, this intervention has an average duration of half an hour and does not require much rest because it is enoughWith only one day of recovery.
He recommended that every diabetic person has a better control of this disease to reduce the risk to develop cataracts and, in general, to whom he exceeds 50 years, the completion of periodic visual acuity studies to capture anomalies in a timely manner.
