Nutrimed Labs: CATARACTS

Condition: CATARACTS

SUGGESTED NUTRITION:

Bilberry #456
3 per day. Bilberry anthocyanosides improve the microcirculation and promote the formation of visual purple.

Visioplex #441
3 per day. Raw eye concentrate with Eyebright for local tissue support. Nutrient for the eye. Relaxes eye muscul- lature and promotes osmotic transfer of nutrients through the ciliary body and lens and cornea.

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PATHOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS:

Developmental or degenerative opacity of the lens of the eye or its capsule or both. Developmental type occurs congenitally or during early life from hereditary causes and nutritional or inflammatory disturbances. The degenerative type is usually associated with age and senile changes and is characterized by gradual loss of transparency in a normally developed lens.

PHYSIOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS:

The cardinal symptom is progressive, painless loss of vision with the degree of loss depending upon the location and extent of the opacity. The lens of the eye has no blood supply of its own, but receives its nourishment through an osmotic process through the ciliary body. Thus, any systemic nutritional disturbance is capable of producing disturbances in the visual apparatus.

TREATMENT:

It has been experimentally shown that diets low in vitamin B-2 can produce cataracts in animals. Cataracts in horses, a common cause of blindness in these animals, can be removed when large amounts of vitamin B-2 are added to the diet. Galactose or milk sugar increases the need for vitamin B-2. In infants who cannot utilize galactose normally, blindness from cataracts has been corrected when milk sugar has been withdrawn from their diet and vitamin B-2 added. It is apparent that except for those cases of cataracts that are strictly and totally congenital, the major factor in the etiology of cataracts is nutrition.