Can you have glaucoma for cataracts?

Patients with glaucoma can have cataract surgery and need to undergo it as soon as possible** to avoid more damage to the body. However, it is important to determine the type of glaucoma the patient has before surgery, so that the order of glaucoma and cataract surgery can be adjusted.

Cataract surgery can also be done if you have glaucoma.

The eye is one of the most vulnerable organs in the human body. Long-term use of the eyes will gradually increase the burden on the eyes, leading to eye diseases. Especially with age, the probability of developing cataracts and glaucoma also increases slightly.

Cataract and glaucoma are both diseases of blindness, and both are closely related to the leading causes of blindness in the world. However, due to the lack of awareness, many people, including cataracts and glaucoma, know little about these two eye diseases.

Cataract is a very common eye disease that affects the quality of life, occurring in more than 70% of people over the age of 50. In the same way, the human eye can perceive the colorful colors of the world. This is because the light rays are focused through the lens and projected onto the retina.

If the lens is cloudy, preventing light from entering the eye, the patient will experience blurred vision. Glaucoma is a very serious form of blindness eye disease. It is usually caused by high intraocular pressure, and there is a certain pressure on the eyeball, which becomes intraocular pressure, and the normal maintenance of intraocular pressure mainly depends on guiding waterproofing.

Waterproof is a colorless and transparent liquid that is constantly discharged and constantly circulated to maintain dynamic equilibrium. Once this balance is disrupted, if the guiding fluid does not flow properly, it can lead to an increase in intraocular pressure, triggering glaucoma.

Glaucoma and cataracts are both common eye diseases, but many people easily confuse the two. Professor Zhuo Yehong pointed out that cataract occupies the first place in the world of blind eye diseases, and glaucoma is a serious irreversible blindness disease, ranking second among blindness and irreversible blindness in the world. Cataracts are caused by blurred clear crystals that do not project light onto the retina, and the occurrence of glaucoma is related to intraocular pressure.

As you don't know, water collection has the function of maintaining intraocular pressure. If the water does not collect smoothly, the intraocular pressure will rise, compressing the optic nerve, causing nerve atrophy and vision loss. This is where glaucoma happens.

Cataracts and glaucoma are just two very different eye diseases. It's not like that. Glaucoma or cataracts, glaucoma and cataracts, and some cataracts can cause glaucoma.

With glaucoma, the reason why patients sometimes need cataract surgery is not difficult to explain. In addition, the front is narrow, and it is not easy for the collection to flow out, but if the front is deepened by cataract surgery, the waterproof water will flow out easily, and the intraocular pressure will drop. Therefore, cataract surgery plays an important role in the development of glaucoma.

Overall, cataracts and glaucoma can exist separately or affect each other. Cataract surgery plays an important role in glaucoma. Professor Zhuo Yehong said that if the surgery is done at the right time, glaucoma** will achieve less results.

Generally, the relationship between these two diseases is very close, people with glaucoma must have cataracts, both of which will lead to blindness, and they must go to the hospital in time**, not dragged.

Glaucoma has nothing to do with cataracts. Because it is two diseases, but these two diseases occur more often in the elderly.

There is no necessary connection between the two, because although both are eye diseases, the symptoms are different, so there is no connection.

Cataract and glaucoma are two different diseases, although both can cause blindness, but the results after blindness are different. However, cataract and glaucoma are both common ophthalmic diseases, and the two are related to a certain extent. If you are not sure, consult Aier Eye Hospital for prevention in advance, click here [**Make an appointment with an ophthalmologist].

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Glaucoma disease is a group of eye diseases characterized by optic nerve damage and visual field defects, usually pathological high intraocular pressure is its risk factor, the disease damages not the eyesight, but the residual vision of the eye, it is possible that the vision is very good, can be achieved, but the scope of seeing things will be small, can only see the center, but the disease damages the visual field center vision will be very good, but the eye has no afterglow, such as a person walking on the opposite side, the front can be seen, and it can not be found if you pass by. Cataracts and glaucoma are two completely different diseases, but they both have blindness in common. Cataract refers to the clouding of the lens that leads to the transparency of light, the ability of the eyes to decrease, the vision to decrease, and it is the progressive decline of vision.

**In the early stage, it can be used through drugs, but when it affects vision or affects life, it is necessary to surgically remove cataracts and implant intraocular lenses, so that better vision can be restored and the original best vision can be restored.

The difference between the two is that blindness caused by cataracts is reversible, while glaucoma is irreversible. Cataracts are opaque lenses that cause vision loss, and glaucoma is optic nerve defects that cause vision loss.

The simplest difference is that cataracts are cloudy lenses and glaucoma is increased intraocular pressure. Cataracts require an intraocular lens, and the most blinding disease in the world is cataract.

Glaucoma and cataract are two different diseases that are both related and distinct; Glaucoma is mainly caused by the increase in intraocular pressure caused by the outflow of aqueous humor, resulting in visual impairment, which is irreversible; The main cause of cataract is the clouding of the lens, which obscures the vision, resulting in vision loss.

Blindness due to cataracts can be completely surgically surgically applied, but blindness due to glaucoma is permanent. This is because the cause of the two is different, cataract is the lens clouding, if cataract surgery is done and replaced with a clear intraocular lens, vision will be completely restored. Glaucoma is caused by damage to the optic nerve caused by high intraocular pressure, and vision cannot be restored.

Cataract is a clouding of the lens, and the main symptom is **, progressive vision loss. Glaucoma, on the other hand, is caused by increased intraocular pressure. Decreased eyesight, swelling and pain in the eyeballs.

Glaucoma has a headache, bloodshot eyes, significant eye swelling, and a feeling of eye pain.

Cataract can sometimes see obvious white flocculent material in the black eyeball, and the patient will have black spots in front of the eyes, vision loss, deformation, etc., but there is no swelling and soreness in the eyes.

In conclusion, when any of the above symptoms appear, it is best to seek medical attention in time.

When people get old, the function of our body organs will slowly decline, and the body of the elderly is very prone to some diseases, such as cataract and glaucoma. The eyes are the first organ to age, so the elderly have a greater chance of suffering from eye diseases, so is glaucoma related to cataracts? Can glaucoma induce cataracts?

1. The two have nothing to do with each other

Mr. Yin, a reader from Shandong, asked: I am 58 years old this year, and I found a cataract in my left eye 12 years ago, and I had surgery that year and my vision was restored. Not long ago, I had a headache, and the examination found that the intraocular pressure in both eyes was high, and the doctor diagnosed glaucoma.

Now I have binocular vision of one and one, and I always feel foggy in front of my eyes. Is there a relationship between glaucoma and cataracts? What to do**?

Yu Jie, deputy chief physician of the Department of Ophthalmology of Beijing Tongren Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University, answered: If the left eye that underwent cataract surgery back then had no other diseases (such as uveitis, etc.), had not been injured, and had no history of special medication, then glaucoma should have nothing to do with cataracts. Now that the intraocular pressure in both eyes is high, it is more likely that primary glaucoma is considered.

At present, there are three categories of glaucoma methods: drugs, lasers, and surgery, and doctors need to give specific rough recommendations after comprehensive consideration of factors such as the type of patient, the severity of the disease, and age. It should be emphasized that glaucoma is a lifelong disease, and patients should have regular check-ups even if they have undergone lasers, surgery, etc.

2. Cataract **

1. Lens trophic metabolism disorders, such as senile cataracts.

2. Endocrine disorders, common diabetes, hypothyroidism, and endocrine disorders are one of the important causes of cataracts.

3. The incidence of cataract in the southern region is much higher than that in the plain area and the northern region.

4. Genetic factors, such as congenital cataracts, are more common in the process of fetal development, and some senile cataracts are also related to heredity.

5. Drugs and poisoning can also cause cataracts.

3. The elderly are cautious with internal cataracts

At present, there is no drug that can effectively prevent and delay the onset and progression of senile cataracts, so when cataracts affect life, surgery** is the only effective method.

The main symptoms of cataract in the elderly include blurred vision, color change, photophobia, black spots in front of the eyes, double shadow when looking at objects, and lens myopia. Late symptoms include vision loss and eventual blindness. Therefore, the sooner the cataract patient **, the better, if it reaches the advanced stage, it is difficult to cure. Wide stool crouching.

There are many causes of cataract and glaucoma in people, such as old age, improper eye habits or malnutrition, etc., you should go to the eye hospital for examination, you can use some antihypertensive eye drops for conditioning, if the condition is serious, you can also undergo surgery**, in the process you should supplement more trace elements in the body, you can eat more carotene, vitamin rich food.

Some people have poor eye use, malnutrition or germs. In addition, if you are older, you may have cataracts and glaucoma, which will lead to increased intraocular pressure, decreased vision and may cause vision problems. Why do cataracts and glaucoma occur?

How to deal with blindness caused by these two diseases?

Cataract glaucoma is relatively common in both diseases, cataract is mainly caused by improper eye habits, age, cloudy eyes and other factors, and glaucoma is mainly caused by increased eye pressure and damage to the optic nerve. Some people may develop cataracts and glaucoma due to long-term exposure to electronic products, coupled with lack of exercise, and if they do not ** for a long time, it may cause vision loss and even blindness.

There is a certain relationship between the occurrence and development of cataract and glaucoma. The main reason for the occurrence of glaucoma is the obstruction of the outflow of aqueous humor due to various reasons, and cortical cataract is related to cataract, which is divided into four stages: initial stage, swelling stage, mature stage and overmature stage. After the expansion of the second stage of expansion, the angle of the aqueous humor channel becomes smaller, that is, the aqueous humor outflow channel becomes narrow, and the atrial humor does not have time to flow out of the eye, which eventually leads to an increase in intraocular pressure and glaucoma.

If the fourth stage is too ripe, the solubility of the lens may cause the spilled protein to clog the small pores that flow out, which in turn will cause the aqueous humor to flow out and the intraocular pressure to rise. The dilated nuclear lens can block the pupil because aqueous humor needs to flow through the pupil from back to front to the outside of the eye. If the pupil is blocked, it will also not flow out, resulting in glaucoma, so the pathogenesis is the blockage of the outflow channel, but it occurs in many forms.

Therefore, the occurrence and development of cataract is ultimately closely related to the occurrence of glaucoma, and vision loss is found in life and cataract is diagnosed, and early surgery is advocated to prevent complications.

Cataract generally comes from middle-aged and elderly people, and glaucoma does come from high intraocular pressure, if you usually have symptoms of eye pain and dry eyes, it is recommended to go to the hospital in time to test the intraocular pressure, if the intraocular pressure is too high, it will lead to the symptoms of glaucoma. Prompt medical attention is required.

Cataract prevention: avoiding dehydration in the body Dehydration in the elderly is one of the causes of cloudy crystals. It is necessary to develop the habit of drinking plenty of water, and at the same time pay attention to prevent diarrhea, vomiting, and heavy sweating.

To prevent glaucoma, first of all, it is necessary to pay attention not to use the eyes in dim conditions for a long time, such as in the case of insufficient light, reading, watching mobile phones, television, computers, etc., may dilate the pupils and induce the acute attack of acute angle-closure glaucoma.

Many patients with glaucoma are caused by cataracts, although these are two kinds of diseases, but they are also related, glaucoma is mostly a serious disease caused by high intraocular pressure, and the condition of cataract develops.