Hi, is there anybody talking eyes vitamins, like Ocuvite, Preservision, Icaps, Macushield, Macusave? I'm willing to try, hoping to delay the progress of cataracts and epiretinal macular membrane. I would be grateful if you could tell me which brand do you think is better. Also I would like the size of the pills not to be too big. Looking forward to hearing from you.
I don’t take vitamins, but while I know some seem to help macular degeneration, they have no effect at all on cataracts.
“Vitamin supplements have no benefit
The results of the studies clearly show that vitamin supplements are not effective against cataracts. People who had taken these products – in some cases for many years – developed cataracts just as often as people who had been taking a placebo.” (See the NIH publication ‘Cataracts: Can vitamin supplements help maintain your vision?’)
It’s probably best to consult your ophthalmologist on the matter.
Once you got cataracts theres no natural cure or way to slow down progression, thats the bad news, the good news is that surgery has a 98% success rate for cataracts, sugery is the only thing that works, you will see lots of ’ snake oil’ eye drops and supplements saying they will cure your cataracts but none of them work, if they did work then our doctors would be giving them to us