Post on 07-Jul-2015
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If you are willing to undergo a lasersurgery for treating your cataract, thenit is good for you to first have a betterunderstanding about the entire healingprocedure prior in advance. An eyeexpert will test and measure your eye tofind out the intraocular lens of whatpower need to be put into your eyes.After that, you may further need to gofor some other tests to ensure that thesize of the intraocular lens is accurate.These tests will also help in makingsure that you do not have any othervision problems, which may createhindrance in the smooth performanceof your cataract eye surgery.
Eye Surgery: Cataract surgery almost takesfifteen minutes in total and canonly be performed on one eyeat a time. You may need tospend two hours at the eyecare center for completion ofthe entire procedureundertaken by an expert eyespecialist. Further, in order tohave a follow-up with yoursurgeon, you will requirevisiting the eye care centerafter a few days.
At the time of the treatment, the skin nearbyyour eye will be cleaned and covered withgermfree bandages. A small cut will be madeby the surgeon in your eye with anultrasound-driven device to break thesuction and cataract away from the remains.During the surgery, doctors may use somespecial instruments to crack it into smallpieces.
After taking out your cloudy butnatural lens, a silicone or plasticintraocular lens will be fixed in youreye. Immediately after completion ofthis task, your eye will be enclosedwith a safe shield and also an eyedrop will be recommended by thedoctor.
Taking Care after Eye Surgery:
You will need to cover youreye will protective shieldwhile sleeping, eye drops needto be used many times in a dayfor at least a few weeks.Further, you need to protectyour eye from direct sunlightand bright lamps.
You may need to avoid eating anddrinking before cataract eye surgery,come to the center for the treatmentwithout applying any kind of makeup,take some topical painkiller, preventusing drugs like Flomax that causesimilar medical impact and mayinterfere with the surgery result, go for afinal eye test, arrange a drive that cantake your home and buy correctiveglasses before going ahead with lasercataract surgery.