There are several stages of cataract development:
1. Beginning cataract. At this stage, the turbidity of the lens is very small, vision can not lose its sharpness.
2. Immature cataract. The visual acuity decreases, the amount of opacities in the lens of the eye increases slightly.
3. Mature cataract. The lens of the eye becomes completely cloudy, as a result of which the visual acuity is reduced almost to zero.
4. Pererezalaya cataract. It is dangerous because it can cause complications in the form of secondary glaucoma.
Cataract is of two kinds: congenital and acquired. The first are born with the child and in the future, as a rule, do not develop. Congenital cataracts cause abnormal development of the eyeball in the womb. This development occurs under the influence of various causes, including oxygen starvation, fever, pathological effects of radiation energy, the development of inflammations in the uterus, the lack of vitamins, viral diseases, the use of medications during the first trimester of pregnancy. Congenital cataracts are treated as quickly as possible in the event of a decrease in vision.
Acquired cataracts are divided into complicated, traumatic, senile, radiation, and others. The first of them arises as a result of complications after the transferred diseases, such as common dermatoses, diabetes, intrasecretory disorders and others, and can also accompany diseases of the eye membranes. The most common among the acquired opacities of the lens is senile cataract, which appears most often in people older than 50 years, and this disease may well be hereditary. Star cataracts usually develop slowly enough.
It is worth noting that cataract is a disease, of which there is no single treatment. Some types of disease under the influence of drugs only progress, so cataract treatment is unacceptable by itself. The development of the disease can be stopped by a medicamentous method, but this method is won only with the initial forms of cataract (when the visual acuity exceeds 0, 1), and then not all. Medicines intended for the treatment of cataracts, regulate the metabolic processes in the lens of the eye through their vitamins, including vitamins C, B1, B2, vitamin C, glucose, chloride compounds of zinc, magnesium, calcium, iodine solution, glutathione .
Folk methods in the fight against cataracts
Traditional medicine also has its own methods of treatment, which are capable of stopping a progressive disease, but it can not overcome it to the end:
1. To dissolve in 1/2 l water one dessert spoon of so-called English salt and use this solution as hot baths for eyes. The English salt or sulphate magnesia, or magnesium sulfate, has a bitter taste.
2. Brew the flowers of marigold in the amount of three teaspoons in 1/2 liter of boiling water, leave for 1-2 hours. This infusion should be used in two ways: wash your eyes and drink half a glass 4 times a day.
3. Clear the lens of the eye with its turbidity may drug-eye (or eye grass, eye socket). 50 gr. this herb should be mixed with a liter of boiling water and after a couple of hours you can start consuming: inside half a glass 3-4 times a day or wipe your eyes with an infusion if the eyelids become inflamed or the cornea becomes cloudy.
4. A good remedy for cataracts is honey, especially May, light. In the absence of side effects it can be used instead of drops: bury 1-2 drops in the eyes 2-3 times a day. If honey burns your eyes, you must dilute it with clean water, 1: 3. When the eyes get used, you can increase the amount of honey (one to two, one to one). However, you can not dig in the honey continuously, you need to give your eyes a break for ten days. To avoid the development of such a disease as acute conjunctivitis, you can not instill honey in summer, in hot weather.
5. Honey can be useful in the preparation of lotions. To do this, you need to take a teaspoon of honey, dissolve it in a glass of water, stir and boil for five minutes.
6. Useful may be grass and mocritus, or, as it is also called, stellate. One tablespoon of the crushed lice should be added to a glass of boiling water, after a half hour drain. The resulting infusion periodically wash your eyes, you can also drip in the eyes for 3-4 drops about four times a day. Infusion of licorice can be consumed inside: 4 times a day for 50 ml.
7. According to the popular phytotherapeutist from Russia Alexei Sinyakova, a positive effect is the instillation in the eyes of a mixture of freshly squeezed flowers and honey (one to one).
Prevention of cataracts, as well as prevention of all other diseases, is very important. Prevention of cataracts is, first of all, strengthening immunity through proper nutrition, including products containing vitamins, such as vegetables, fruits, berries. They are rich in vitamins useful for the eyes, blueberries, dog-rose, cowberry, ashberry and sea-buckthorn.
Blueberries, not subjected to any treatment, are certainly most useful. This berry contains vitamins and minerals and is well stored in the winter, you just need to pour it on sugar. The same qualities are possessed and cowberry, which should be consumed several tablespoons daily.
Cowberry leaves are also suitable for the prevention of cataracts. A tablespoon of leaves should be added to a glass of boiling water, and then drink the resulting infusion 4-5 times a day for not more than a third of a glass at a time.
Very useful and infusions of berries rowan and hips. 2 tbsp. l. the latter must be poured with a liter of water and boiled for ten minutes in a dish, covered with a lid, over low heat. To insist an hour. Drink half a glass 5-6 times a day. In a glass of boiling water add 1 tbsp. l. rowan berries, let stand up to half an hour. Drink as much as the infusion from the hips, but only 3-4 times a day. The berries are not bitter, if you collect them after the first frost. You need to consume in 3-5 months.