All About Cataract Surgery San Antonio

By Tammie Caldwell


When you experience frequent change in your prescription for glasses and despite changing prescription if you still feel your vision is blur and poor then you must go to an eye doctor to get it checked. Usually this happens when you are affected by cataract in your eyes. You will find a number of good eye clinics for cataract surgery San Antonio and most of these clinics are situated in the prime locations of San Antonio TX.

When cataract is detected at an early stage, usually the vision is improved by wearing prescription glasses but after a while the only option left to you is to undergo surgery. The surgery is only recommended when the vision starts to get blur and prescription glasses could no longer be recommended. Its a common fact that people feel confused as mostly they have very limited information about such surgery but you can always ask your doctor before undergoing any sort of surgical treatment.

If you gather information and get to know more about this treatment, you will find out that it is more or less a very short and pain free procedure. You may feel a little bit of discomfort during and afterwards the surgery but there are no other effects you might incur if the procedure runs smoothly. Your doctor would give you pain killers and eye ointments in order to make the pain go away and they work perfectly fine.

The surgery is performed in a simple way by using a microscope, the surgeon would first make a very small incision on your eye's surface and then the clouded lens is dissolved and removed from the eye. Once its done, then a new lens is inserted in order to make your vision better.

In the event that the lens is too thick or too difficult to break up then some other strategy is utilized to dispose of it. This technique is known as Extracapsular surgery. In this strategy, as opposed to making a little entry point a touch bigger cut is made so that the lens could be evacuated as it is without dissolving it. On the off chance that you experience such technique, then the recuperation time is likewise somewhat long.

It is your obligation to talk about everything with your specialist long and ask all the inquiries or worries that you may have in your brain. Your specialist would pose certain inquiries with respect to your therapeutic history just to guarantee you're fit to experience this kind of surgical treatment. In specific cases, where the patient experiences ailments like diabetes the mending procedure turns into each all the more slower.

The treatment is done within a couple of minutes time and you are able to go home right away. Only if some sort of complication occurs, you might be asked to stay overnight but that happens very rarely. The very next day the bandage is also removed from your eye.

Usually both eyes have to be treated but they cannot be treated at the same time. It is recommended that one should give at least twelve days gap between the two surgeries so that the first eye is given ample amount of time of time to heal properly.




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