Dry eyes can put a damper on your day. The itch, irritation and the gritty feelings are distracting, and irritation can get so bad as the day draws on, that it can border on painful. If you’ve suffered from regular or seasonal eye dryness, you may have noticed that the irritation worsens throughout the day […]
Continue readingHello Allergy Season: How To Protect Your Eyes
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 […]
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