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Can medications cause cataracts?
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Can medications cause cataracts?

Here Dr Ahmed Alnahrawy discusses the types of medication with cataracts as a side effect.

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We usually get asked a lot about the medication that may cause cataract and the most common medication that would cause cataract is actually steroid Eye drops or systemic steroids and these are used for a variety of conditions But that's a very common side effect and most of the clinicians most of the physicians will try to use Another alternatives to treat the general conditions apart from steroids because they do cause cataract as a side effect and that sort of cataract will come earlier, present earlier and ideally will not be, will be more in the affected eye.

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