It seems like every season is allergy season. In the spring, it’s the tree and flower pollen. Summer adds grass pollen. In the fall, it’s weed pollen. People who have allergies have symptoms such as sneezing, sniffling, and nasal congestion, but allergies can affect the eyes, too. They can make your eyes red, itchy, burning, […]
Continue readingDiscovering Common Dry Eye Symptoms
Dry eye symptoms are often a result of insufficient tear production, or tear films that evaporate too quickly. This condition, which can be chronic, can affect anyone but is prevalent among women and the elderly. Dry eye causes and risk factors can vary, too. Some suffer from it due to their environment, while some are […]
Continue readingContact Lenses: A Great Way to See!
Contents 1 Introduction and Overview 2 The Basics of Contact Lens Care: Know Your Products 3 Always and Never 4 Staying Safe 5 Diagnosis Codes Introduction and Overview Section one of this series introduced you to contact lenses (CLs); they are a great way to correct your vision, for optical reasons as well as cosmetic […]
Continue readingOcular Migraine
IN THIS ARTICLE Symptoms Causes How It’s Diagnosed Treatment What is Optical Migraine or Ocular Migraine? Whenever we talk about Migraines we tend to imagine about pounding and disabling headaches but when we talk about optical migraine or ocular migraine, this is a condition in which the affected individual does not have any pain but […]
Continue readingLong Eyelashes May be Short on Protection
The eyes are an important part of the human body. One of the first things we often notice about other people is their eyes. As we make eye contact with other people, our eyes communicate in ways that our words cannot. Sometimes our eyes are accentuated by the little hairs that line our eyelids. Yes! We’re talking about eyelashes. Beauty […]
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