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Experience with eye drops that will soften cataracts.

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hilary13182
hilary13182

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.

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  • mrsmop
    mrsmop hilary13182

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    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.

     

    • hilary13182
      hilary13182 mrsmop

      Posted

      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.

  • at201
    at201 hilary13182

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    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.

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