What should we pay attention to after cataract surgery

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Cataract is due to lens opacification, aging, genetic, metabolic abnormalities, trauma, radiation, poisoning and local malnutrition, which cause lens capsule membrane damage, increase its permeability, loss of barrier function, or lead to lens metabolic disorder, make lens protein denaturation, form opacification from transparent to opaque, hinder light into the eye, thus affecting the visual acuity It's a kind of eye disease. Cataract patients are usually treated by intraocular lens implantation. What should we pay attention to after cataract surgery.

What should we pay attention to after cataract surgery

First: on the first day after the operation, we must have a quiet rest, do not bow our head, do not wash our face with running water, use a wet towel to wipe our face, do not rub our eyes, and do not press the eyes when sleeping. Tips: in addition to eating and going to the toilet, you should rest in bed; special attention should be paid not to bump the eyes, so as not to cause complications such as anterior chamber hemorrhage and elevated intraocular pressure.

Second: on the second day after the operation, according to the doctor's advice, the blindfold gauze can be removed by the doctor. Although the doctor can take care of himself at this time, he still stays in bed. If you feel eye pain, tears and other normal phenomenon, but if the eye pain, accompanied by headache, nausea and other symptoms, to timely report to the doctor for symptomatic treatment and medication.

Third: remove the stitches 5 days after the operation. According to the doctor's advice, topical eye drops or ointment should be used to prevent infection. But the point of medicine to pay attention to hygiene, hand wash clean, for older patients, it is recommended to ask their families to help point eye drops or ointment.

matters needing attention

Patients with cataract should eat more foods containing vitamins, especially foods rich in vitamin E. vitamin E has strong antioxidant activity, can reduce the impact of oxygen free radicals on cells, and can also reduce and prevent the production and deposition of lipofuscin, thus protecting the unsaturated fatty acids in cell membrane phospholipids. Vitamin E can stabilize the structure of biofilm, maintain the activity and receptor of membrane binding enzyme; vitamin E can also make biofilm play normal physiological functions and delay cell aging. Foods containing vitamin E include peanut, sesame, lettuce, daylily, lean meat, milk, eggs and deep-sea fish.