Scientists Make An Eye Drop Than Can Melt Cataracts

Cataracts happen when protein builds up in the lens of your eye, making it cloudy. Age, other medical conditions or an injury to the eye can be the cause of a cataract. Symptoms include cloudy visions, changes in the way you see color, double vision and glare during the day. Treatments for this disease is usually by surgery. Though it is can be done, there are still people who can’t afford surgery and that’s where alternatives are found.

Cataracts are the leading cause of loss of sight in humans, and researchers in U.S developed an eye dropper that can now dissolve a cataract. Check out the article we found at Deprogram Yourself.

Researchers in the US have recently developed a new drug that can be applied straight into the eye via an eye dropper to shrink down and dissolve cataracts – the leading cause of loss of sight in humans.

While the effects have yet to be tested on people, the team from the University of California, San Diego wants to duplicate the findings in medical trials and offer an option to the only treatment that’s currently offered to cataract patients – unpleasant and frequently excessively pricey surgical treatment.

Impacting countless people worldwide, cataracts trigger the lens of the eye to become gradually cloudy, and when left untreated, can cause overall blindness. This happens when the structure of the crystallin proteins that make up the lens in our eyes weakens, triggering the harmed or disorganised proteins to clump and form a milky blue or brown layer. While cataracts can not spread out from one eye to the other, they can happen individually in both eyes.

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