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Yes, Laser Cataract is the best possible remedy

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Do you know how to treat cataracts? Regardless, cataracts are liquefied, extracted or zapped by a beam of radiation; laser cataract is one of the safest processes available with a high rate of success. Nonetheless, with the latest range of laser methods, surgeons might soon have to think twice about carrying out a surgery.  It’s true that the emergence of femtosecond lasers has brought a new level of consistency, precision, and safety to the vital aspects of cataract surgery after a routine eye exam . Still, latest studies showed that the laser photolysis with femtosecond surgery can postpone cataract surgery by decolourizing the lenses.  Yes, you heard it right. It is not the same process like decolourizing your hair, skin, teeth and clothes. In case of cataracts, the lenses are leached with light. The process of photobleaching includes utilizing a pulsed laser in the infrared spectrum to bleach the chromophores that accumulate within the natural human lens...

Never neglect diabetic eye disease

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Diabetes is mainly responsible for blindness among people between the age of 20 to 75. I don’t know that until one of my friends started experiencing bad eye sight after getting diabetes. The very first question that came in my mind was how high blood sugar level can cause diabetic eye disease ? Basically, high sugar level has an effect on the lenses, as it makes the lenses swell and thereby cause blurred vision and different kinds of eye ailments.   Diabetic retinopathy   Any ailment or disorder of retina due to diabetes is called diabetic retinopathy. One of them is retinopathy. Here, the capillaries situated behind the eyes initially swell and then form sacks, which cause blockage in the blood vessels. The scariest one is proliferative retinopathy. Here the blood vessels get completely closed. Hence Routine eye exam is necessary.   Cataracts   Cataracts are quite common for both normal people and diabetics, but here also, the possibility of gett...