NetOpt Optometrist

CATARACT (TSHANGA)

The lens starts to get cloudy & looks white when you look at a person.

*Age-related: Develops slowly with age.
*Congenital: Born like that.
*Traumatic: The eye was hurt, blunt trauma.
*Secondary: It occurred due to other conditions like Glaucoma.

**Exposure to the sun causes cataract & it's progression.
**Certain medications cause cataract.

Treatment:

*** UV/Sun protection:
****Tinted spectacles & sunglasses.
****Wearing caps & putting umbrella.
***Operation (u tanzwa mato): Lens extraction & insertion of artificial lens (IOL)