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The most common symptom is a cloudy vision.
Another would be your vision getting affected, like your short-sightedness increasing: as if the near objects are clear but the far ones keep on getting blurrier and blurrier over time. This means you have to keep on going to your optician, who keeps on increasing the degree. That's one symptom of cataracts.
Other symptoms include double vision, where you see things or images are doubled or more dispersed. The top telltale sign would be blur vision.
Certainly, the most common cataract we see is what we call senile cataract or age-related cataract and these affect people above the age of 60. At the same time, there are certain people, even in babies and young adults, who get cataracts. These are usually rarer and more related to trauma or pre-existing conditions. Usually, the overwhelming majority of patients with cataract are of the age group above 60.
It’s a natural occurrence, a natural degeneration of lens fibres. The other causes of cataract could be things like oral steroids, for example, if a person is taking oral steroids for a long time they do get cataracts. Trauma as well, people who get injuries, be it sports or construction or accidents also get lens-related opacity related to trauma. People with ocular inflammation uveitis or allergic conjunctivitis also get cataracts. So, most of these conditions can cause cataracts.
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