How do you acquire catracts

**redsoxfanfewany** · 10-03-2005, 09:46 PM

I was wondering how do we get catracts and is only when we get older?

**chip anderson** · 10-03-2005, 10:03 PM

You can be born with them, you can have an injury that can cause them, you can live too long and they will form, some may be caused by drugs, medication, or chemical exposure.

**Jedi** · 10-03-2005, 10:18 PM

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**Chris Ryser** · 10-04-2005, 03:26 AM

Originally Posted by redsoxfanfewany

I was wondering how do we get catracts and is only when we get older?

Don't forget that if you have not protected your eyes against UV radiation many years prior to getting old.................getting cataracts is a very strong possibility. Today an optician can easily treat your lenses to absorb all the UV and give you full protection.

**Clive Noble** · 10-06-2005, 04:36 PM

Originally Posted by redsoxfanfewany

I was wondering how do we get catracts and is only when we get older?

Hey..... if you want cataracts, you can have mine with pleasure and you won't have to wait 'till you're older, mine are nice and old

**chip anderson** · 10-06-2005, 04:54 PM

You can also get bad diabetes. You can be employee as a glass blower.

You can just have bad genes and get them.

Chip

**Bev Heishman** · 10-06-2005, 07:08 PM

It is no longer good enough to filter UV only. Serious data is coming in regarding HEV-High Energy Visible light in the 400-470 (aqua) nanometer range. Non protection in this range attributes to cortical cataracts appearing in the inferior nasal quadrant are attributed to these wave lengths as well as ARMD.

**chip anderson** · 10-06-2005, 09:51 PM

Of course there are those that beleive the human organism was designed to last only 40 years or so and most of our problems are a result of trying to make the body last too long. If this is true none of our filtration devises mean much. Probably the best way to prevent cataracts, hardening of the arteries, lombego, Alzeimers, and most of our other troubles is to committ hari~kari at 39.

Chip

**Myoptic33** · 11-05-2005, 12:40 AM

LOL some of your comments are funny. I dont know about the human body only meant to live around 40 years, I sure as heck wanna live much longer. If I get cateracts, arthrists, whatever, then be it. Theres treatments for those ailments