{"id":2999,"date":"2023-10-31T10:28:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T10:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blowclinic.com\/nickmaycock\/?post_type=condition&#038;p=2999"},"modified":"2024-01-04T11:42:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T11:42:23","slug":"cataract","status":"publish","type":"condition","link":"https:\/\/nickmaycock.co.uk\/conditions\/cataract","title":{"rendered":"Cataract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A cataract is a natural clouding of the natural human lens. It leads to a reduction in quality of vision with symptoms of blurred vision, glare, difficulty reading and altered colour perception. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a natural age-related change but may be brought on earlier by certain medications, medical conditions and injury. There are three main types of cataract:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nuclear \u2013 centre of the lens is affected which goes cloudy, yellow-brown in advanced cases<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cortical \u2013 the outer layers of the lens turn white in a spoke-like fashion.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Posterior subcapsular \u2013 the back edge of the lens develops a cloudy plaque. This may become visually significant very quickly.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the early stages, symptoms can be minimised by good lighting and glasses. As symptoms progress, it is not possible to overcome the symptoms and cataract surgery in indicated. Healthy lifestyle choices (such as wearing UV blocking sunglasses, stop smoking, reduce \/ stop alcohol intake, optimise control of diabetes) can slow the onset of cataracts.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3092,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-2999","condition","type-condition","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cataract Treatment by Nick Maycock | Portstmouth Eyecare<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A cataract is a natural clouding of the natural human lens. 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