Many patients who live with diabetes at some point develop a diabetic cataract. The lens of the eye is normally clear, but cataracts cause a clouding to occur in the eye’s lens. A diabetic cataract forms as a result of diabetic retinopathy. Retinopathy is caused in diabetics because of the damage that is inflicted on the blood vessels that supply the eye’s retina. The retina is a layer of tissue that can be found at the back of the inner eye. It acts as a camera, because it changes light and images that enter the eye into nerve signals that are sent to and comprehended by the brain.

Diabetic cataracts develop slowly over a long period of time and pain is not normally associated with them. When a diabetic cataract forms, vision will gradually get worse. A person with a diabetic cataract may experience symptoms such as eye sensitivity; …