Cataract
Alternative names:
lens opacity
Symptoms:
- cloudy, fuzzy, foggy, or filmy vision
- changes in the way you see color
- frequent changes in your eyeglass prescription
- impaired vision at night, especially while driving, caused by effects of bright lights
- problems with glare from lamps or the sun
- halos around lights
- double vision
- white spot or cloudy spot in the lens of the eye (the pupil, instead of being black appears milky or white)
Signs and tests:
Other tests that may be done (rarely) include: - glare test
- contrast sensitivity test
- potential vision test
- specular photographic microscopy
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