Cataract is a common eye disease in the elderly, and it is also important to take good care of your eyes after cataract surgery, not to exercise strenuously, to protect your eyes, and to review them properly.
Cataracts are indeed a common eye disease of the elderly.Cataracts occur for more reasons, nutritional deficiencies, aging, heredity, radiation and other reasons, will make the protein inside the eye denatured, so the eye? glass window? There will be flocculent objects on it, slowly getting bigger and bigger, slowly making the vision more and more blurred. Fortunately, there are now surgeries such as ultrasonic emulsification for cataracts, which can be done by ultrasound or extracapsular extraction to pulverize the blocked lens, and then a machine can suck it out and drain it. Finally, an artificial lens is implanted, and the procedure is complete.
It is also important to take good care of your eyes after cataract surgery.Eye surgery, but also need to be very good self-care. First of all, the mind must be good can not collapse, do not have any psychological burden, do this surgery is a good thing, better than blind. Secondly, after the surgery, you can not do strenuous exercise, especially to protect the eyes and around the eyes, be careful not to be bumped into. Then, it is better to avoid coughing and sneezing hard, and also do the anti-inflammatory treatment honestly according to the doctor's requirements. Proper use of eye drops at the same time, be sure to do a good job of their own hygiene, proper supplementation of protein to eat food and food rich in lutein and zeaxanthin.
Finally, if you feel a bit uncomfortable after the surgery, especially nausea, eye pain and other special circumstances, you must go to the hospital in time to check. If there is nothing wrong, after three months after the operation, you should also go to the hospital again for a checkup. Therefore, some patients will have residual refractive error, so you need to redo a checkup and properly fit the eyes.
The incision for cataract surgery is actually very small, and it's not like you need stitches after the surgery as long as one eye is covered with gauze. Eye drops and discharge from the hospital will begin the day after surgery, so it's better to have the opportunity, no need to carry on or have the surgery.