Post-cataract surgery question 2: Does the color seem bluer than before?

  After cataract surgery, some people may feel that the color of seeing things seems a little different than before surgery, especially when the flame on the gas stove looks especially blue. This is especially noticeable when comparing one eye after surgery and the other before.  What is going on here?  Actually, the lens of a normal young person is transparent and basically colorless. As we age, the slow formation of cataracts occurs and develops, and the color of the lens gradually deepens. “More often than not, its color gradually changes from clear to light yellow, dark yellow, brown or even black. This process is like having sunglass lenses of various colors put on in front of our eyes secretly. After the cataract is cleared, light can fully enter the eye, as if we have taken off the sunglasses on a sunny day, naturally we will feel that the clouds are particularly white and the sky is particularly blue. Especially for patients with high cataract hardness and darker lens color, the difference will be more obvious. If you are not able to adapt to it in the short term, you can wear a pair of light-colored sunglasses for a temporary transition, and you will gradually adapt to the normal bright world.

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