Eye Health Awareness

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.

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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.

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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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Vision and the Challenges of Night Driving

In winter, when the days are shorter, we tend to end up driving more at night.

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How Our Eyesight Changes as We Age

The majority of people will experience changes to their eyesight as they age.

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Winter Is Here! Are Your Eyes Protected?

When we think of sunburns, most of us probably imagine sandy beaches and summer heat, but we can get sunburned in any season, including winter.

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Encouraging Healthy Vision Development

Did you know that babies have to learn how to see, just as much as they have to learn how to walk and talk?

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Smoking Versus Healthy Vision

The most common health effects that come to mind when we think of smoking are lung cancer and bad teeth, but it doesn’t stop there.

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Questions Our Patients Often Ask Us

Many of our patients come to us with the same questions without realizing it.

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Diabetes and Vision

Diabetes is a disease that can negatively affect health in many ways, including healthy eyesight.

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Recognize the Signs of Retinal Detachment

Our eyes are amazing, complex organs, but there are a lot of ways for things to go wrong.

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Glasses Lenses Through the Centuries

The earliest example of someone using a tool to assist with vision (that we know of) is Roman philosopher Seneca.

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The Connection Between Vision and Sleep

Sometimes it’s hard to get a full night’s sleep, but when we don’t, we definitely feel it.

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The Different Degrees of Visual Impairment

Some vision problems are so extreme that simple glasses or contacts aren’t enough to completely fix them.

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A Word of Caution on Costume Contacts

Halloween is our favorite spooky time of year, but we need to talk about the potential dangers of costume contact lenses.

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Good Home Eye Safety Practices

Nearly half of all eye injuries each year occur in the same place: the home.

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Makeup and Eye Safety

Cosmetics have come a long way from the toxic powders used in the Renaissance and Victorian eras.

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