Peter Attia· MD
however there are things that can pathologically prematurely cause cataract formation some of them are sort of surprising like being electrocuted can actually cause premature cataract formation but that's one sort of exotic weird one but trauma head trauma can certainly do it just head trauma not necessarily eye trauma you know the head i mean obviously they go hand in hand typically the the eye is in the head and if the head receives trauma there's going to be a certain amount of trauma in the eye itself so right the point is it doesn't have to be direct trauma to the eye it's simply the the coup counter coup for example of the brain are presumably also being reverberated through the vitreous fluid that's exactly right so if you think about you know the eye as a fluid containing organ and when it receives trauma and just as you mentioned with coup and contra coup injuries of the brain inside the skull i think those same forces come to bear on the eye itself so i think it's more common when you do have direct eye trauma but i think even head trauma alone can predispose someone to cataract formation certainly diabetes is a cause of premature cataract formation steroid use corticosteroid use can lead to cataract formation