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Around 200,000 cataract operations are performed in the UK each year. It is an operation that improves your sight so that you can go about your daily life.
Here, we draw attention to symptoms that suggest you might have the beginnings of a cataract. We also
A cataract is a clouding of part of your eye called the lens and can develop in one or both eyes.
The lens is normally clear and helps focus light on the retina at the back of your eye to form a sharp image. This image is sent along the optic nerve to your brain where it is translated into a picture. Over time the clouding becomes more dense and bigger as the cataract develops. The cloudier the lens becomes, the less sharp the image and the greater the effect on your sight.
Age-related cataracts is the most common type and it is not known for sure how or why cataracts forms or why your risk increases as you get older.
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