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Ocular Migraines: A Strange Eye Symptom
Have you ever had a shimmering patch of light appear in your vision, then widen until you can’t see anything else?
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Use Your Glasses to Flatter Your Face Shape
What factors do you consider when picking the best new pair of glasses for you?
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Eyelashes and Eyebrows: Not Just for Show
Eyelashes and eyebrows serve a greater purpose beyond their aesthetic appeal.
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Why Sunglasses Matter
Summer is around the corner, and so are longer days with more hours of sunlight!
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What Do You Know About Your Eyes’ Anatomy?
Do you remember much from biology class about eye anatomy?
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Do Men and Women Always See Eye to Eye?
There are many differences between men and women — even when it comes to vision and eye health.
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Athletes and the Visual Skills They Use
When we think of the traits of an athlete, we usually think of speed and strength first.
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Germs and Our Eyes
A habit of rubbing your eyes could come back to bite you.
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Eyes and Allergies
Stopping to smell the spring flowers can be hard when your nose is stuffy and your eyes are swollen.
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Blinking and Eye Health
We blink our eyes several times every minute of the day, but why do we need to?
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Tanning Beds: Not Optometrist Approved
Anyone who enjoys a nice tan should be aware of the risks of tanning booths.
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Eyes and Headaches Are Often Linked
Headaches can have a number of causes you wouldn’t expect, like an uncorrected vision problem.
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Eye Health and Safety at Work
March is Workplace Eye Wellness Month, which makes it a great time to discuss eye safety on the job.
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What to Expect at an Eye Exam
Approximately 1 in 5 adults in the United States has an undiagnosed eye condition.
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Our Top Lens Care Tips
Glasses and contact lenses are small things that make a huge difference.
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Color Blindness Is a Spectrum
Contrary to popular belief, color blindness does not mean seeing in black and white. Usually.
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What Is Heterochromia?
Most of us notice a person’s eye color almost immediately when we meet them.
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How Does Blue Light Affect Our Eyes?
Do you spend a lot of time after the sun goes down looking at a bright screen?
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Spotlight: Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Age-related macular degeneration is a leading cause of permanent vision loss for people over the age of fifty.
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Progressives, Bifocals, and Reading Glasses
As we get older, the lenses in our eyes become less flexible.
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Tips on Maintaining Healthy Eyesight
An underrated ingredient of a good quality of life is healthy eyesight.
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Glaucoma: Types and Risk Factors
Clear eyesight requires all of the intricate parts and systems of the eye to work together.
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Good Practices for Safe Night Driving
The shorter days of winter inevitably lead to more night driving than in the other seasons.
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Vision Problems Can Affect Kids Too
Functioning, healthy eyesight plays a huge role in a child’s development and education.
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Autoimmune Diseases Can Affect Vision
Many autoimmune diseases can interfere with the health and function of the eyes.
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Helping Your Child’s Vision Development
Babies aren’t born with visual skills; they actually have to learn how to see!
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Do You Have Your Winter Eye Protection?
Even if there are fewer hours of daylight in the winter, sunglasses are still important!
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Smoking Puts Eye Health at Risk
Smoking damages the entire body, and the eyes are no exception.
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How Does Diabetes Impact Eye Health?
Uncontrolled diabetes can wreak havoc on health in many ways, including eye health.
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Why Do We Have Different Eye Colors?
Melanin, the same compound that determines skin and hair color, is also responsible for different eye colors.
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What Are the Symptoms of Retinal Detachment?
The human eye is complicated, and there are a lot of ways something can go wrong with it.
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The History of Corrective Lenses
People have been using tools to help them see clearly since at least 60 A.D.
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Visual Impairment Is a Spectrum
Not all vision problems can be corrected with contact lenses or glasses.
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How Sleep and Vision Intersect
Sleep deprivation hits the body and mind a lot like alcohol, but how does it affect our eyes?
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We Recommend These Home Eye Safety Tips
44% of all eye injuries happen at home, but 90% of eye injuries are preventable!
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Caring for Our Eye Health As We Age
Our eyesight, among many other things, tends to change as we get older.
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Costume Contacts: Sourcing and Safety
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How Often Do We Need Eye Exams?
Most dentists will recommend a cleaning and dental exam twice a year, but how often do we need our eyes checked?
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Safety Tips for Your Eye Makeup
The saying “beauty is pain” shouldn’t be true when it comes to eye makeup.
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Improve Your Game With Sports Eyewear
Wearing the right eye protection can prevent an estimated 90% of eye injuries.
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How Do Animals See?
Human eyes are amazing, but there are some eyes in the animal kingdom that are pretty impressive too.
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How to Combat Digital Eye Strain
How much of your day do you spend looking at a screen?
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Comprehensive Eye Exams and Education
Name five things you would expect to find in every school nurse’s office.
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How Much Do You Know About Pink Eye?
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The Best Foods for Healthy Eyes
Eating carrots is supposed to improve our eyesight, right?
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20/20 Vision Is Only One Part of Eye Health
20/20 vision is often thought of as perfect eyesight, but it’s really just one part of it.
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New to Glasses? Here's Why They Rock.
Starting to wear glasses can be a big change for kids.
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Tips for Pairing Makeup With Glasses
Figuring out the best way to flatter our facial features with makeup is already tricky, but how about when we add glasses?
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Staying Active Is Good for Eye Health
An active lifestyle is great for our overall health, but also specifically the health of our eyes.
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Cataract Treatment Across History
The world’s leading cause of blindness has always been cataracts. Naturally, treatment has come a long way.
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Your Eyes and Underwater Activities
Before we all jump into the nearest body of water this summer, let’s take a look at some eye safety tips.
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Fireworks and Common Sense Eye Safety
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Independence Day celebrations?
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Visual and Ocular Migraines
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Face Shape and Glasses Frames
Do you choose glasses frames based on how well they fit the shape of your face?
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What Are Our Eyebrows and Eyelashes For?
We don’t just have eyelashes and eyebrows to look pretty.
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What Sunglasses Do for Your Eyes
Summer is almost here, and that means longer days with more sunlight!
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The Anatomy of the Human Eye
How much do you know about the structures of the human eye?
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Battle of the Sexes: Eye Health Edition
You might be surprised how different vision and eye health can be between men and women.
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The Visual Skills Athletes Need
The first traits we tend to associate with athletes are speed and strength, but vision should be a close third.
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Germs Can Infiltrate the Body Via the Eyes
Do you have a habit of rubbing your eyes?
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Get Your Eyes Ready for Allergy Season
It’s difficult to enjoy a beautiful spring day through swollen eyes and a stuffy nose.
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The Purpose of Blinking
We blink multiple times every minute, but do you know why it’s so important?
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The Eyes-Headaches Connection
Uncorrected vision problems can lead to symptoms you might not expect, like frequent headaches.
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Tanning Beds: Not Great for Eye Health
Indoor tanning is NOT a safe alternative to sunbathing, including for eye health.
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Eye Safety in the Workplace
For Workplace Eye Wellness Month, we’re giving you a guide to protecting your eye health at work!
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Why Are Eye Exams Important?
Eye exams (from a real optometrist, not an app) are critical for maintaining lifelong healthy vision.
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Glasses Care and Contact Lens Safety
Glasses or contact lenses might be small, but they make a massive difference in our daily lives.
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The Full Spectrum of Color Blindness
There are many different ways a person can be colorblind, and only the rarest type results in seeing in black and white.
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Learning All About Heterochromia
Statistically, the first thing we notice about a person when we meet them is their eye color.
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Do Our Eyes Need Protection From Blue Light?
How much of your nightly routine is lit up by a bright screen?
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The Basics of AMD
For people age fifty and older, age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of permanent vision loss.
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Corrective Lenses for Presbyopia
The older we get, the more the lenses in our eyes lose their flexibility.
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Tips for a Lifetime of Healthy Eyesight
Healthy eyesight is an important part of having a good quality of life.
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What Is Glaucoma?
So many intricate parts have to work together to make clear eyesight possible.
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Vision and Safe Night Driving
The days are shorter in winter, so we inevitably end up driving at night a little more.
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Recognizing Childhood Vision Problems
Healthy, functioning eyesight is incredibly important to a child’s education and development.
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Helping Child Vision Development
Did you know that babies have to learn how to see?
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Protecting Your Eyes in Winter Conditions
We might get more hours of daylight in the summer, but sunglasses are important in winter too!
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The Impacts of Smoking on Eyesight
A smoking habit damages every organ and system in the body, including the eyes.
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How Diabetes Impacts Eyesight
One of the many things diabetes can impact when it isn’t carefully controlled is eyesight.
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How Eye Color Works
Human eye color comes from melanin, the same compound that determines skin and hair color.
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Learn the Signs of Retinal Detachment
Human eyes are incredibly complex, which means there are many ways something can go wrong.
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Corrective Lenses Through History
Since as early as 60 A.D., people have been using vision-correcting tools to help them see.
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What Are the Degrees of Visual Impairment?
Vision problems can’t all be corrected with glasses or contact lenses.
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The Relationship Between Eyes and Sleep
Studies have shown that sleep deprivation hits the body and mind a lot like alcohol.
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Smart Tips for an Eye-Safe Home
44% of all eye injuries happen in the home.
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All About Costume Contacts
A great way to take a Halloween costume or cosplay outfit to the next level is with costume contact lenses.
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Makeup Eye Safety Tips
Back in the old days, makeup was full of ingredients like lead, arsenic, and mercury.
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How Often Should I Get Eye Exams?
Your dentist has probably told you to get a cleaning and exam every six months, but how often should we get eye exams?
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Keeping Our Eyes Healthy as We Age
Among the many changes our bodies undergo as we get older are the changes to our eyesight.
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The Importance of Eye Protection for Athletes
An estimated 90% of eye injuries are preventable if the right eye protection is worn.
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How Does Animal Eyesight Work?
We wouldn’t have gone into the optometry field if we weren’t fascinated by eyes, and there are some incredible ones in nature.
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Prevent and Minimize Digital Eye Strain
Digital screens have become an increasingly prominent part of our lives in recent decades.
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Eye Exams: Vital to Your Child’s Education
A staple of every school nurse’s office is the big E eye chart.
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What Is Pink Eye?
How much do you know about conjunctivitis (pink eye)?
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Eyesight Is More Than 20/20 Vision
We tend to think of 20/20 vision being a synonym for perfect eyesight, but that isn’t quite true.
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What Are the Most Eye-Healthy Foods?
We’ve all heard that eating carrots will give us amazing eyesight.
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Welcome to the Glasses Club!
Wearing glasses can be a big adjustment for kids when they’re just starting out.
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Making Makeup Work With Glasses
It’s hard enough figuring out the most flattering makeup for our facial features — what about when we add glasses?
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How Does an Active Lifestyle Help Eye Health?
Staying active is great for our health, including the health of our eyes!
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The History of Cataract Treatment
Cataracts are the world’s leading cause of blindness, and the history of treating them is long and fascinating.
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Swimming and Eye Health
Let’s go over a few eye safety facts before we all start playing in the water this summer!
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Important Eye Safety Rules for Fireworks
Fireworks are probably the most iconic part of every year’s Independence Day festivities.
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Learn to Recognize Ocular Migraines
Have you ever seen a patch of shimmering light that widened until it filled your field of vision?
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What to Look for in Your New Frames
Do you know how to find glasses frames that suit your features?
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Sunglasses Versus UV Rays
Summer is almost here; are you as excited as we are?
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What’s Inside the Human Eye?
The human eye is amazingly complex.
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Men’s Eyesight and Eye Health
Men and women aren’t just different in the obvious ways; their eyes are different too!
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Sports and Visual Skills
When we think of athletes, we probably think of speed and strength first, but what about vision?
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What’s Unique About Women’s Vision?
When you think of the differences between men and women, vision and eye health probably aren’t on the list.
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Eyes Can Be an Access Point for Germs
When was the last time you rubbed your eyes?
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Are Your Eyes Ready for Allergy Season?
Nothing can ruin the beauty of spring quite so quickly as an allergy attack.
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Why Do We Need to Blink?
Blinking does a lot for the health and function of our eyes.
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What Do Eyes Have to Do With Headaches?
Frequent headaches could be a symptom of an uncorrected vision problem.
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Tanning Beds and Eye Safety
You might have heard that indoor tanning is a safe alternative to sunbathing, but that is false.
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Workplace Eye Safety
March is Workplace Eye Wellness month, so let’s celebrate by taking stock of a few ways to protect our eyes at work!
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Yes, Eye Exams Matter
Regular eye exams (from an optometrist, not an app) are critical for lifelong healthy vision.
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How to Care for Your Lenses
Corrective lenses are such small things that make such enormous differences in our lives.
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The Many Shades of Color Blindness
Being colorblind can mean a lot of different things, and only in rare cases does it mean seeing in black and white.
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Heterochromia: When Eyes Don’t Match
What’s the first thing you notice about a person when you meet them?
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What to Know About AMD
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of irreversible vision loss for people over 50.
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Is Blue Light Bad for Our Eyes?
How big of a role does a bright screen play in your nightly routine?
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Reading Glasses, Bifocals, or Progressives?
As we age, the lenses in our eyes gradually lose their flexibility.
Read More
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A Few Tips for Protecting Your Eyesight
Having healthy eyesight is a critical component of maintaining a good quality of life.
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A Quick Glaucoma Crash Course
Human eyes are incredible and incredibly complicated.
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Eyesight and Night Driving
As much as we might want to avoid it, we tend to end up driving at night more often in winter.
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Know the Signs of Child Eye Problems
Healthy eyesight is hugely important to a child’s development and education.
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How Getting Older Changes Our Eyes
Aging affects us in all kinds of ways, and that includes our eyesight.
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Winter Eye Protection
It may seem strange, but sunglasses are just as important in winter as they are in summer.
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Helping Your Child Develop Healthy Vision
Seeing isn’t just something babies do automatically; they have to learn how first!
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How Smoking Harms Eye Health
Smoking is harmful to every system in the body, including eyesight.
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A Quick Round of Optometry FAQs
We hear a lot of the same questions from our patients, so let’s address them in an FAQ!
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Diabetes and Eyesight
Healthy vision is one of the many things diabetes can harm if it isn’t carefully controlled.
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Retinal Detachment Warning Signs
Human eyes are remarkable, highly complex organs.
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A Brief History of Glasses
People have been using vision-correcting tools of some kind since as early as 60 A.D.
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The Levels of Visual Impairment
Not all vision problems can be corrected by wearing glasses or contacts.
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Sleep and Vision
When we don’t manage to get a full night’s sleep, we feel it long into the next day.
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Tips for Home Eye Safety
Almost half of the eye injuries that happen each year happen at home!
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Can Makeup Be Bad for Our Eyes?
Modern makeup doesn’t contain lead, mercury, and arsenic like it used to in bygone era.
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Be Careful When Buying Costume Contacts
Colored contact lenses are sometimes the perfect final touch to take a Halloween costume to the next level.
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What Is My Ideal Eye Exam Frequency?
Dentists will tell you that you should have a dental exam every six months, but what about eye exams?
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Maintaining Healthy Vision as We Age
A lot changes as we get older, including our eyesight.
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Eye Protection for Athletes
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Strange and Fascinating Animal Eyes
Just because we’re all about helping human vision help, it doesn’t mean we can’t appreciate some of the unique eyes in nature.
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Protecting Your Eyes from Digital Strain
Many who have to rely heavily on digital devices for work have felt the discomfort of digital eye strain.
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Why Kids Need Eye Exams
What comes to mind when you think of a school nurse’s office?
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The Basics of Pink Eye
Can you recognize the symptoms of conjunctivitis (pink eye) when you see them?
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Having 20/20 Vision Isn’t Everything
“20/20 vision” and “perfect eyesight” are often used interchangeably, but they really shouldn’t be.
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Hey Kids, Your Glasses Are Awesome!
Kids often struggle to adjust to having to wear glasses.
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Nutrition and Eye Health
Eating carrots might not really give you great night vision, but certain foods do have eye health benefits.
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Glasses, Contacts, and Makeup
Using makeup to enhance your style or look your best can get a little trickier when glasses or contacts are in the equation.
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Staying Active Helps Vision Health
What are some of the things we can do to keep our eyes healthy? Eat carrots? Wear sunglasses?
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Cataract Treatment Then and Now
In the US alone, cataracts affect over 20 million adults 40 and older and half of all seniors age 80 and up.
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Eye Safety Considerations for Swimmers
Before diving into the pool this summer, make sure you’re aware of the eye safety facts.
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The Importance of Fireworks Eye Safety
We all love celebrating Independence Day with some good food, friends and family, and a dazzling display of fireworks.
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What Is an Ocular Migraine?
Ocular migraines can be alarming if you don’t know what they are and suddenly get one for the first time.
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Eyebrows and Eyelashes
Our eyebrows and eyelashes aren’t just there for decoration.
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UV Rays and Sunglasses
Things are heating up for summer!
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Tips for Choosing New Frames
When we pick out new glasses, we want frames that will help us look our best.
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The Inner Workings of the Eye
Have you ever stopped to think about how amazing the human eye is?
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The Connection Between Sports and Vision
Being a successful athlete isn’t just about speed and strength — it’s also about vision.
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-
Women’s Eye Health
Men and women might not come from different planets, but there are certainly a lot of differences between the two — even with eye health.
Read More
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Allergies and Our Eyes
Spring is a beautiful season with lots of flowers and vibrant greens...but it can be hard to enjoy when you have allergies.
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How Germs Can Travel to Our Eyes
Most of us rub our eyes many times in the course of the day without really thinking about it.
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The Importance of Blinking
Do you know how many times you blink in a minute?
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How Headaches and Vision Are Connected
If you suffer from frequent headaches, it might be time to schedule an eye exam.
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Indoor Tanning and Eye Health and Safety
Some people might think of indoor tanning as the safer alternative to sunbathing, but that is far from accurate.
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Are You Protecting Your Eyes at Work?
In honor of Workplace Eye Wellness Month, it’s time for a look at the steps we can all take to protect our eyes while we work.
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Why Eye Exams?
Whether you wear corrective lenses or not, regular eye exams are critical for maintaining good eye health!
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A Crash Course on AMD
For people age 50 and older, age-related macular degeneration is one of the leading causes of irreversible vision loss.
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