The following symptoms and complaints may indicate a cataract:
- Lens opacity
- Glare sensation, especially at night and at dusk
- Decrease in visual acuity
- Fading of colors and contrasts
- Liquid absorption into the lens
- Blurred and/or distorted vision
- Increased sensation of glare in bright light
- Decreased perception of contrasts
- Occasional double or multiple vision
- Decrease in color perception or “foggy vision” (feeling as if looking through a “frosted glass”)
- Mature cataract – only brightness perception.
As a complication, phacolytic glaucoma (= glaucoma due to swelling of the lens) may develop. Furthermore, there is a risk of inflammation in the eye due to the release of degenerative lens protein to the aqueous humor of the eye.
