Cataracts Causing Blurred Vision?
Get Advanced Cataract Surgery in Cataracts can cloud your vision and impair your ability to carry out daily activities. If you’re struggling with fuzzy, blurry eyesight or have difficulty reading, seeing at night, or noticing faded colors, cataracts may be the culprit. At Urmil Eye Hospital in Vapi, our experienced ophthalmology team provides advanced cataract surgery to help restore your eyesight.
A cataract is the clouding of the eye’s natural lens, which focuses light onto the retina to allow clear vision. As we get older, the lens can become increasingly cloudy, causing blurred and dim eyesight. Cataracts typically develop slowly over many years and may affect one or both eyes.
Include needing more light to see properly, faded colors, blurry vision, seeing halos around lights, difficulty seeing at night, double vision in one eye, and frequent changes to your eyeglass prescriptions. Without treatment, cataracts can eventually lead to vision loss.
Cataract surgery is the only way to remove cataracts and correct vision problems they cause. Our experienced ophthalmologists in Vapi use advanced technology and precision surgical techniques to offer cataract patients the best possible results.
During cataract surgery, your cloudy natural lens is removed using state-of-the-art phacoemulsification equipment and replaced with a clear artificial lens implant. This outpatient procedure usually takes 15-30 minutes per eye and is typically performed under local anesthesia (with injection near eye) or topical anesthesia ( just eyedrops; injection free).
Facility of Cataract care at our clinic
Microincision phacoemulsification surgery ( just 1.8mm incision)
Non contact Optical biometry
Premium Foldable lenses ( Indian and Imported)
Cashless and Mediclaim (Reimbursement facility)
Services available in packages
Surgery starting from Just 6000/- package
Benefits of Our Cataract Surgery Include
- Surgery removes blurry cataracts
- Artificial lens implants help normalize eyesight
- Better contrast, night vision and color perception
- Quick recovery with little discomfort
- Short hospital stay of only a few hours
With our advanced surgical expertise and technology, over 98% of our cataract surgery patients achieve 20/20 vision or better.
Contact us today itself If cataracts are affecting your vision and daily living, don’t wait. Call Urmil Eye Hospital today to schedule a cataract assessment with our experts. We’ll help determine if cataract surgery is right for your eyes and discuss appropriate lens options especially for you in your budget to meet your vision needs.
Question Asked by Patient
Normal lens in our eye is clear. When this lens becomes cloudy making things blurred or causing difficulty in vision its known as Cataract.
Cataracts usually develop as a natural part of aging when proteins in the lens start to clump together, clouding the lens. So basically, Cataract is not a disease, it’s an age related process just like greying of your hair. But then nowadays you have seen people with young age having grey hair, similarly cataract can happen in early age if there is history of trauma to eye or head, use of over the counter medicines containing steroids, diabetes or other systemic risk factors.
Most common complains include blurry or cloudy vision, double vision, sensitivity to light, yellowish discolouration, frequent change in glasses, difficulty seeing at night and difficulty in driving.
While they can’t be prevented, you can reduce the risk by protecting your eyes from sunlight by wearing anti-glare glasses or photo chromatic glasses, avoid smoking, eat healthy diet and managing health conditions like diabetes.
Yes, surgery is the only effective treatment for cataract. Cataract cannot be prevented or reversed by any eye drops or glasses. During surgery, the cloudy lens is removed and replaced with an artificial lens.
Cataract surgery is generally safe and highly successful. It is one of the most common and routine surgeries performed worldwide. It takes only 10-30 minutes and is usually painless.
No, once the cloudy lens is removed, it doesn’t come back. However, in some cases, a membrane may form behind the artificial lens in the bag that may become cloudy over time, but this can be easily treated with a laser.
While this was true some time ago when cataract surgery was performed using large incision (6-7mm), Nowadays, Cataract surgery is performed using micro incision Phacoemulsification (Laser) technique (1.8-2.8mm) giving advantage of quick post-operative recovery and better quality of vision.
Before any surgical procedure, you must discuss your health related issues like diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and kidney related problems with your doctor because you may have to stop blood thinners for the surgery (If your doctor plans for Peribulbar anaesthesia). It is also of utmost importance that your sugar must be no more than 140mg/Dl fasting or 180 mg/dl post prandial. Hypertension and other systemic risk factors also needs to be controlled. You must wash your hair before surgery as the doctor may advice against washing your hair for some time after surgery. Some doctors like to start few eye drops before surgery and you must consult regarding the same with yours. It is wise to get treated for dryness or any surface pathologies of eye before surgery for most accurate results and better clarity of vision.
You must instil eye drops as advised by doctor and should never miss our follow up. Avoid wearing any make up, washing your eyes with water. Avoid bending forward or lifting heavy weights. Avoid sleeping on the side of surgery and rubbing your eyes. Last but not the least, Wear protective goggles all the time!
The need of glasses after cataract surgery depends on the corneal astigmatism before surgery and the type of lens you chose during cataract surgery. Some options include:
Monofocal: These lenses clear your distance vision and you may need glasses for near (like seeing mobiles and reading newspaper) and intermediate distance (like working on computer)
Multifocal: These lenses clear your distance and near vision and you may need glasses for intermediate distance (like working on computer).
Trifocal: These lenses clear your distance, near vision and intermediate vision reducing your dependency on glasses.
Extended depth of focus (EDOF): These lenses clear your distance and intermediate vision providing a continuous range of vision you may still need glasses for near work like (sewing thread in needle).
Toric: These are customized lenses to correct any astigmatism or cylindrical error. These can be monofocal, multifocal, trifocal or extended depth of focus.
To know more about what lens is better for you, you must consult your eye doctors because every lens has its own advantages and disadvantages.