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More than 50 percent of people over the age of 60 suffer from cataracts – and they can affect younger people as well. You don’t have to be a grandparent to develop cataracts, and almost everyone develops cataracts as they grow older.
 
 
A cataract is a slow, progressive clouding of the eye’s natural lens. It interferes with light passing through the eye to the retina. This happens because aging and other factors cause proteins in the eye’s lens to clump together, which causes the clouding. Over time cataracts typically result in blurred or fuzzy vision and sensitivity to light.
People with progressed cataracts often describe the sensation as looking through a piece of wax paper. A cataract may make light from the sun or a lamp seem too bright, causing glare. Colors may not appear as bright as they once did. Or at night oncoming headlights may cause more glare than before. |
