At Respectacle Company, we offer routine eye examinations at our Market Harborough practice. We also see many patients who are experiencing vision difficulties or have symptoms that require further investigation.

To help you better understand these issues, we thought it would be useful to create a series of blogs highlighting different eye conditions and their symptoms. This way, you will know what signs to look out for and what actions to take if you experience any of them.

In the first blog of this series, we will focus on flashes and floaters: what can cause them and their potential implications for your eye health.

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Cataracts are a common age-related vision problem. In the UK, around 30 per cent of people aged sixty-five and over have their vision affected due to cataracts. If you suffer from cataracts, they can make everyday activities, such as reading and driving, difficult. In England alone, more than 400,000 cataract surgeries are performed annually. Given the severity of the condition – cataracts are the leading cause of blindness in the world – we thought this common eye disease would be a popular topic to discuss in our latest blog.

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