CATARACT

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Cataract surgery is an operation that takes 15 minutes with the FAKO method, which is a modern cataract surgery. Although there are some technical differences in the operations of pediatric or elderly cataract patients, the procedure performed in cataract surgery consists of removing the cataract and replacing it with an artificial intraocular lens.

Although each eye surgery costs 500 TL, you can donate any amount you want to the cataract pool in a lower amount, so that your loved ones can see it.

Cataract is a condition that mostly affects both eyes. Sometimes it starts in both eyes and progresses together, causing both eyes to be affected equally. Sometimes, cataracts start in one eye.

Cataract surgery is an operation that takes 15 minutes with the FAKO method, which is a modern cataract surgery. Although there are some technical differences in the operations of pediatric or elderly cataract patients, the procedure performed in cataract surgery consists of removing the cataract and replacing it with an artificial intraocular lens.

Due to the hot weather, nutrition, hygiene, lack of clean water and climatic conditions in Africa, many people lose their ability to see as cataracts at a young age. When the inadequacy of the number of ophthalmologists is added to this, many patients, especially in rural areas, live in darkness without having an operation.

The clouding of the lens layer, which is located just behind the colored layer of our eye and which is normally a transparent lens, by losing its transparency for any reason, and the formation of a smoke screen in front of the eye that impairs the clarity of vision is called cataract. Blurring of vision in eyes with cataracts can be at very different levels depending on the degree of cataract, starting from a little blurry vision to the degree of seeing only light. Cataract, the most common cause of blindness in the world, is a treatable vision loss.

Cataract is not just a disease specific to the elderly. Cataracts can also be seen in infancy and childhood.

The most important cause of cataract is old age. Cataract, which is very common especially after the age of 60, increases with age. In addition, eye traumas, previous eye pressure, eye diseases or surgeries such as intraocular inflammation, some chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, long-term use of cortisone drugs, radiation therapy, vitamin C deficiency, malnutrition, ultraviolet rays, clean water Lack of hygiene, exposure to intense light for a long time, smoking, alcohol, harmful chemicals and radiation are also causes that trigger cataracts.

Cataract treatment is surgery; Unfortunately, there is no other form of treatment other than surgery.

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