Cataracts and your eye health at North Shore Eye Care in New York Long island

There are several theories that exist that can cause cataracts including: smoking, diabetes, excessive exposure to sunlight, steroid use and certain other medications. The typical symptoms that may occur (blurry vision, glare around  lights at night, haloes, colors losing there contrast and increased nearsightedness. The increased nearsightedness is also cause a temporary improvement in close-up vision, but likely to worsen as the cataract continues to grow. Since cataracts tend to progress slowly, your vision changes are subtle and you may not notice any changes in your vision at first. When you see your eye doctor, a complete medical history and eye examination is necessary, which involves dilating your pupil to visualize the cataracts and the retina.

In Long Island we see patients from  huntington, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, dix hills, melville, deer park, plainview, woodbury, syosset, bethpage, bay shore, babylon, farmingdale, farmingville, massapequa, lindenhurst, sayville, islip, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, smithtown, nesconset, mattituck, southold, westhampton, eastport, southhampton, east hampton, hampton bays sag harbor, montauk, new york city, queens, brooklyn and many other towns.