Cataracts in Dogs
Dogs are considered the most faithful of pets and are considered very close to their owners. The owner of a dog generally becomes much attached to this faithful animal and treats the dog as being a part of the family. Any sort of ailment, sickness or physical complication for a dog becomes a matter of concern for the owner of the pet, this is a worrying situation until the sick dog symptoms are diagnosed and a treatment is started to help the animal improve its health. Being an animal the dog can not communicate its illness to its owner so the responsibility of keeping an eye on the health of the animal lies with the owner. Any medical condition if caught well in time can be treated effectively to the comfort of your animal.
One of the most common ailments affecting dogs is canine cataract; cataract is basically a type of eye disease. This disease is as common in dogs as it is in human beings, being one of the most common eye diseases to affect dogs; all breeds of dogs are vulnerable to cataract problems. Although this disease comes in various forms, it generally affects older dogs. When a dog gets cataract its eyes become milky or cloudy and its vision becomes greatly affected, making its health decline. Basically cataract affects the lens inside the eyes of a dog, these lenses are primarily meant to help the animal focus its field of vision and when these lenses are affected badly by cataract and become too opaque causing blurred vision to the dog.
Cataract in dogs can develop over a long time or in some cases the development can be quite rapid. There are generally three types of cataract in dogs these are:
Incipient Cataract is the mildest form of this disease or the initial stage of cataract, in this stage the opacity of the eye is very little, in fact in some cases the opacity is so slight that it is hard to determine whether your dog has cataract, in most cases this stage of the disease does not interfere with the dogs vision.
Immature cataract causes the eye to be cloudier then it is in incipient cataract and thus affects the eyesight and vision of your dog, although eyesight is not completely lost, vision is blurry. This type of cataract is easier to observe because a bigger portion of the eye of your dog is cloudy.
Mature cataract is the critical stage of cataract in dogs. In this stage of the disease the whole eye turns milky and the dog almost loses all its vision.
If you notice these symptoms in your sick dog or see that the eyes of your beloved pet are turning milky, see the vet as soon as possible the disease can be easily treated specially in its early stages and cataract should be treated as soon as possible because the presence of this disease greatly affects the wellbeing of your pet.
Any qualified vet can surgically treat the immature and mature stages of cataract by removing the blurry part of the lens with surgery and replacing the lens with artificial lens, this is the only treatment that can be given to a dog with cataract and is successful in up to 90% of cataract cases in dogs. Any qualified veterinarian can diagnose and treat cataract in your pet, be sure to have your dog checked by a qualified vet regularly and monitor its health to give it a comfortable and long life.
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