Cataract – an eye lens disease turning clear and transparent lens to become darkened and disturbing the eyesight.
Congenital - a nature or state which appears since birth, may be caused from genetic factor or other factor.
Amblyopia - lazy eyes condition, patient’s eyesight is unclear whereas the eye physical structure seems normal.
Retina - light sensitive layer of cells at the rear of eye ball which capture image seen to be process by the brain.
Wrong Society’s Presumption
Our society usually has the wrong presumption on congenital cataract disease. Some are:
Presumption that cataract surgery causes blindness is absolutely wrong. Cataract surgery can restore patient eyesight to the better level and it needs to be done as early as after diagnosis is made.
Complications
The blurred eye vision in the child is disturbing the brain development. The age around first four months to two years is very critical for the child’s eyes and brains development.
The visual inputs that being seen will be delivered to the brain to enable the child to recognize objects and learn. If this process is disrupted, the child cannot recognize the seen objects since the brain which control the visual sense is not developed and functioning well.
The Causes
A congenital cataract state that happens to one eye is a case that happens rarely. Patient who experience congenital cataract to only one eye usually experience other congenital eye defects such as structural front eye abnormality, primary vitreous structure abnormality (vitreous humour) and a state known as posterior lenticonus.
Patient who experience congenital cataract problem on both eye sides usually have family history of congenital cataract disease and other numbers of diseases. Among them are premature birth and intrauterine infections like rubella, syphilis, toxoplasmosis and herpes.
Corneal defect in children is also known as congenital cataract condition in medical language. Congenital cataract is a condition where the eye lens which is originally clear and translucent turned muddy and this situation was traced after the birth.
Eye lens function is to focus light that enters into the eye and create the image onto the retina. Cataract disease prevents the light from entering the eye and causing blurred image produced on the retina of the eye.
