How is a Cataract Treated?

When a cataract is not very cloudy, it may cause only mild or occasional problems with your vision. A change in your glasses, stronger glasses, or the use of a magnifying glass and good lighting may help improve your vision and be all that is needed to improve your vision.

There are no medicines, eye drops, exercises or glasses that will cause cataracts to disappear once they have formed. Surgery is the only way to remove a cataract. When you have a cataract which stops you seeing well enough to do the things you like to do, a change in your glasses may have little effect to improve your vision and cataract surgery should be considered.

Cataracts cannot be removed with a laser, only by a surgical operation. In cataract surgery, the cloudy lens is removed from the eye. The focusing power of the natural lens is restored by replacing it with a permanent implant lens.