Cataracts manifest clinically as a gradual loss of vision with no other eye discomfort. However, if you feel that your vision is slowly decreasing, you must go to the hospital to make a diagnosis before you can be sure that it is a cataract. However, if you feel that your vision is slowly decreasing, you must go to the hospital to make a diagnosis. If macular disease is not treated in time, it may lead to permanent vision loss.
Some people say: don’t do it until the cataract is ripe. That is, do it when you can’t see. This concept is very wrong. This is because this is a 20-year-old concept, which is caused by the low level of medical care at that time. Nowadays, cataract surgery is ultrasound emulsification surgery, which can be done before the cataract matures. Let’s say the vision can only reach about 0.3 or 0.4 with glasses, then the surgery can be done. In other words, cataract surgery is now at a level where patients can receive surgery even at 1.0 vision as long as they feel that their vision has adversely affected their lives. Some of you are asking, why can surgery be performed at 1.0? Because there are people whose vision is 1.0, but the cataract is already heavy, but they can see the visual scale on the vision chart through the cataract slit, in fact, their visual quality has been severely degraded. When he goes out, he will have a dazzling feeling when he sees the sunlight. Therefore it is time to undergo surgery as well. Cataract is elective surgery. What is elective surgery? Because it is not an emergency, patients are free to choose the time of surgery/ according to their needs and feelings. That is, when to operate is determined by yourself.
But never wait until the cataract is ripe before doing it, that will cause great difficulties to the surgeon and the chance of possible complications during the surgery increases. So don’t wait until the cataract is ripe.