Beware of Cataracts: Know the Risk Factors, Symptoms, and Treatments

TRIBUNNEWS.COM – Cataracts can interfere with vision and make the sufferer feel like seeing a foggy window so that vision is not clear.

This condition can interfere with the activities of the sufferer. For example, it is difficult to drive, difficult to read, and do other activities.

When not treated quickly, Cataract disease can lead to blindness.

Ophthalmologist Siloam Hospitals Manado, dr Samuel Malingkas Sp.M (K), explains blindness due to cataract still holds the highest number.

Through data from the Ministry of Health in 2014, blind people reached 2.2 percent of the total population, the highest prevalence in people over the age of 65 years.

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“If the condition on the eyes cataract This left without medical treatment can result in blindness,” said Samuel Malingkas.

Explained through education which is continuously carried out by management Siloam Hospitals Manado, risk factors cataract due to several things, namely:

• Increasing age (aging)
• Ultra violet light exposure
• Presence of disease factors, including diabetes and hypertension
• Exposed to X -ray radiation and possible trauma to the eyes.

Then, what also needs to be known are the signs or symptoms cataract things to watch out for include:

• Blurred vision such as foggy or dim
• Increased difficulty with night vision
• Sensitivity to light and glare
• Need brighter lighting for reading and other activities
• Seeing “halos” around lights
• Frequently changing the size of your glasses or contact lenses
• The surrounding color looks faded or yellowed
• Double vision in one eye

Initially, turbidity in vision caused by cataract it may affect only a small part of the eye’s lens and the sufferer may not notice any vision loss.

Generally handling cataract done through surgery. dr. Samuel Malingkas, Sp.M (K) explained, surgery cataract This can be done using several surgical techniques, namely:

• Intra Capsular Cataract Extraction (ICCE)
• Extra Capsular Cataract Extraction (ECCE),
• SICS (Small Incision Cataract Surgery), dan
• Phaco Emulsification Technique.

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