Several fruitless complain shopping tour followed. All choices in both color looked off into the wrong size lampshade and Ed. Nancy persuaded Ed finally seeing an ophthalmologist. Cataracts – there is certainly something in the eyes of Ed. Cataract is a clouding of the intraocular lens. The term “white waterfall” from the Greek word, and rather poetically, therefore, looking through a cloudy lens, because it suggests that to see the world through a waterfall.

Lens of the eye behind the cornea (the transparent front covering of the eye) and iris (the amount of light entering the eye muscles through the center, a colored ring that controls the pupil). Lenses, screens in the back of the eye focuses light on the retina. Brain, it is to interpret the messages we received over the nervous system of sensors of the retina, “please see.” Lens, in a way that light can pass through without obstruction, proteins are composed primarily of water and protein. If you have been suspended or group together proteins, the light is at least partially blocked. Opaque water and cooked protein, including a transparent egg white, imagine – has been reorganized protein.

Cataract, which developed for several reasons. Almost everyone over the age of 60, so she has to some extent, they are large and are considered a normal part of aging. Aging, high doses of steroids, exposure to toxic chemicals, chronic inflammation, diabetes, which is not due to trauma to the face and eyes, and. Conditions such as exposure to prenatal rubella syndrome and down like this, which may lead to congenital cataract, an overall incidence in infants and children are (in the U.S. six per 100,000), very low is.

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