Anyone with experience using the various eye drops that are being marketed to dissolve cataracts? I'm trying to avoid surgery like the plague. My optomotrist reccommended Can-C brand w/Nac.
no scientific evidence this or any product has any merit for this purpose!
I agree with Simon.
You don't have to have surgery unless the cataract is really bothering you, then you will ask for surgery.
That is not true. Nac is mentioned in pubmed studies.
Wish i had thought like that, worse thing i ever did was to have mine done, wont be in a hury for the other one thats for sure.
I had never heard of drops to dissolve cataracts. Wish I had known about them before I had the cataract surgery done. Prescription was wrong in both eyes, had to have a piggyback lens inserted in right eye, I am going to see if they can put one in the left eye also.
The Royal College of Ophthalmologists don't recommend the drops. The treatment only appears to have been tried on dogs
Are you in the UK Hilary?
Of course the people who gain the most $ from the surgery will object....
Hi Hilary
I wouldnt expect anything to get rid of cataracts other than an op, it would have been so lovely to have thought that this would be possible but I doubt it very much, does anyone else agree with me
Regards Agnes
OK, maybe your optomotrist doesn't know about possible alternatives. They all read the same journals....
The product you refer to has not been proven of merit in human clinical trials.
iF it had been so proven it would have gained recognition as a medicine by relevant agencies eg FDA and EMA etc
Do you ever consider these agencies might have an incentive to block do-it-yourself cures? And as I said, studies these drops has been published in pubmed. Look for yourself.
Also, the FDA sometimes approves drugs that prove to be really harmful.
The UK has very high standards to adhere to before they use new drugs & they would far rather use relatively cheap eye drops than perform a surgical procedure if it is not necessary.
Optometrists in the UK are not medically qualified, so we see Ophthalmologists.
I have been reading about Can-C drops & Lanosterol drops but they only seem to have been tested on elderly dogs though there appeared to be a small clinical trial in Russia but nothing was proven.
I will ask my Consultant when I see him next week.
I will be very sceptical of such drops to get rid of cataracts. If these drops were really good, they will try to conduct clinical trials to get them approved by FDA for this purpose, because then these drops could earn them billions of dollars in annual revenue.
As a side comment, there was a consent decree some time back between the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and MBI Distributing, Inc. (MBI), also known as Molecular Biologics, an OTC drug manufacturer of eye drops such as Can-C, which required it to cease manufacturing and distributing drugs until it corrects manufacturing deficiencies and other violations at its Benicia, California facility. Hopefully, it does not have those issues any more.
OK....I'm interested in what your Consultant says. Obviously, given the replies, no one has tried the drops. I'm aware that optomotrists are not qualified to to surgery, but mine suggested the drops as a trial. She also personally confided in me that she would only let a surgeon touch her eyes as a last ditch proceedure.