Glasses and brighter lighting can help for a time, but once the lens is cloudy, only surgery restores clarity. No drops have been proven to dissolve a cataract or reverse the misting of the lens.

For the technically minded: There is no pharmacological agent that reverses protein aggregation or restores lens transparency in vivo. Experimental antioxidants and glycation inhibitors have not shown durable clinical efficacy, so surgical lens extraction remains the gold standard.