Exclusive - Scientist Finally Discovered An Eye-Drop That Melts Away Cataracts! Amazing!

A cataract is a clouding of the lens in the eye that affects vision. It is the most common cause of vision loss in people over age 40 and is the principal cause of blindness in the world. Recently, scientists have developed an eye drop that can dissolve these vision-blockers.

Inexpensive to make and easy to administer, the twice-a-day drops could be in widespread use in as little as five years. In tests, they dissolved the clumps of protein that cloud the vision of more than half of pensioners.

Researcher Kang Zhang, an ophthalmologist, came up the idea for the eye drops after treating two young children with cataracts. When he read their DNA, he found they carried a mutation that stopped them from making lanosterol.

The University of California, San Diego, says that given that lanosterol occurs naturally in the human eye, it should be safe for use as a drug – and he hopes to start the first clinical trials in the next one to two years.

Lanosterol eye drops could be in bathroom cabinets in five to seven years – and Dr Zhang expects them to be much cheaper than surgery.

Currently, cataracts can only be removed by a quick and easy operation. However, it is one that is not without complications. Plus, the rationing of the eye surgery in some parts of the world has been going on and patients have been told their vision is still ‘too good’ for treatment, even though their cataracts are so severe they cannot drive or read.