Follow us on social networks:News saved in your profileOphthalmic Clinic Ophthalmology has its own operating room with the maximum guarantees.Alex DominguezToday, October 13, we celebrate World Sight Day.It is a day of awareness around the enormous importance of visual care for all people.But above all for 2 age groups: the older ones and the younger ones.Today, we will focus on the first: the oldest.And in the problem that affects the vision of a greater number of people aged 55 and over: cataracts.The medical director of Oftálica Clínica Oftalmológica, located in the Alicante neighborhood of El Plá, Dr. Enrique Chipont, with more than 30 years of professional experience, affirms that “eye care is essential”.For this reason, he recommends “periodic ophthalmological check-ups.Preventing the problem anticipates the response and, therefore, the solution”.In the case that concerns us, cataracts constitute one of the main visual problems of people over 55 years of age.It is a decrease in visual acuity due to opacification of the crystalline lens, which is the lens of the eye.Or, what is the same: what happens when the lens of the eye becomes cloudy because, with aging, the tissue that forms it changes.The fibers and proteins that until then formed that tissue gradually break down and our vision becomes cloudy, as when we try to look through a waterfall, until it prevents us from carrying out tasks that until then have been part of our daily lives.Cataracts have a solution and it is surgical.In addition, cataracts are a visual problem that is related to the aging of the lens of the eye and, consequently, they appear when we get older.Around 7 out of 10 people over the age of 70 suffer from cataracts, but they can appear earlier, between 50 and 60 years old, an age range in which they affect about 4 out of 10 people, or between between the ages of 60 and 70, when it affects an average of 5 out of 10 people.As the population is gradually aging, the incidence of cataracts is increasing.Dr. Enrique Chipont, medical director of the Ophthalmic Clinic Oftalmology.Alex DominguezHowever, in addition to age, according to Dr. Enrique Chipont, there are a number of risk factors that can aggravate or precipitate the appearance of cataracts, such as alcohol, smoking or being exposed to the sun for too long without protection. adequate, which not only affects those who go to the beach or the mountains, but, for example, those who spend hours in the countryside.In addition, there are other factors that are equally important, such as diabetes or a strong impact on our eyes.Cataracts need to be diagnosed by an ophthalmologist.And this implies going to the consultation of the specialist.However, there are a number of symptoms that are compatible with this problem.If we notice them, we must immediately go to the specialist's office.One of these cataract symptoms occurs when we perceive dim or yellowish colors.Another symptom compatible with cataracts is needing more and more light to read.Our vision becomes blurred and sensitivity grows, at the same time, towards light.This symptom is important, because we may notice it when driving: the headlights of other vehicles dazzle us.And, also, it is possible that we develop double vision.Oftálica is a reference clinic in Alicante.jose navarroDr. Enrique Chipont advises: "The perception of one or more symptoms compatible with cataracts is reason enough to go to the specialist."“Cataracts -he adds- do not improve: they worsen.Therefore, you have to make the right decision to eliminate them.And his only solution is surgery.The cataract operation -explains Dr. Chipont- is a simple intervention of just 15 minutes in which local anesthesia is used.The patient also enters and leaves the operating room by his own foot.The surgeon's job is to remove the lens and replace it with an intraocular lens, which can be monofocal, bifocal or multifocal.If we choose a multifocal lens, we will also say goodbye to glasses.Because with it, it is possible to see correctly in the 3 distances: near, medium and far.If our option is single vision lenses, we will perceive a total change in our long-distance vision.If we decide on bifocals, what will improve is our near and far vision.Ophthalmic Clinic Ophthalmology, has its own operating room with the maximum guarantees of hygiene and asepsis, with which the entire medical itinerary, from diagnosis to surgery, is carried out in the same space and with the collaboration of a team that the patient knows since he arrives on the first visit.In that first visit, the ophthalmologist carries out the necessary tests to make the diagnosis.Once the evaluation results in the existence of cataracts and in agreement with the patient, he is thoroughly informed about the surgery to which he is going to undergo and a preoperative treatment is established.Once in the operating room, the surgeon proceeds to intervene one of the 2 eyes.The other will be operated on a few days later.The patient enters and exits through his foot, after performing a painless surgery.Once finished, he goes to the rest room and post-surgical resuscitation.Next, the doctor will explain everything that has been done in the operation and will direct the postoperative treatment.After a few days, the surgery of the other eye is carried out.Which is exactly the same and with the same procedure.Dr. Chipont points out that “there is no other remedy for cataracts other than surgery.For this reason, at the first symptoms, we must put ourselves in the hands of the ophthalmologist, who will be the one who makes the appropriate decisions and explains them to the patient to definitively end the problem”.Address: Av. 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