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If you have cataracts, you will need cataract surgery. While you may think that cataract surgery only removes the cataract from your eye, there’s more to it. Cataracts affect the lens of your eye by making it cloudy with a build-up of proteins. This can happen because of genetics, eye injury, or other reasons, but… Read More

Even the safest surgeries need some amount of recovery time. Cataract surgery is one of the safest surgeries in the world. This doesn’t mean you don’t need to leave time for recovery! If you get cataract surgery, you’ll still need to account for healing time. When complications occur, it’s usually because something goes wrong during… Read More

Do your eyes ever feel drier than the Sahara desert? You might have dry eye syndrome. Dry eye happens when your eyes can’t produce enough tears. With dry eye, even if you’re producing enough tears, they may not be good quality. When this happens, you experience symptoms like itching, pain, redness, and blurry vision. Dry… Read More

  Pretty much everyone uses computers or digital devices for something today. We are constantly exposed to digital screens either at work or in our personal lives and this constant exposure can lead to some eye strain over time. Not a lot of people are familiar with the issues of digital eye strain, even though… Read More

  Most people try to eat healthy and take their daily vitamins, but it is easy to forget and cut corners when you’ve had a busy week. It is easy to take our eyes for granted, but they are the second most physiologically active part of our bodies—second only to the brain! This means our… Read More

  Research conducted by scientists studying infants with the Zika virus in Brazil have discovered new dangerous eye complications that can be linked to the virus. These eye complications can lead to possible severe vision loss and even possibly complete vision loss. Three Brazilian infants that have microcephaly—a birth defect caused by Zika that causes… Read More

  Do you like to spend a lot of time outdoors? Spending time in the sun, camping, hiking—these are all things that are great outdoor activities, but it is important to make sure you are taking the right steps to protecting yourself from the sun’s rays. Most people know to protect their skin from the… Read More

  A recent study was conducted that determined a large number of adults in America suffered from extreme nearsightedness (myopia)—9.6 million adults to be exact. Of that staggering number, 820,000 of those people suffer from degenerative eye disease and another 41,000 people deal with a serious vision complication which is called myopic choroidal neovascularization—which can… Read More

  It is that time of year again! Back-to-school! Millions of parents around the country are rushing to stores to buy all the newest school supplies and outfits. While you are going through your list of school supplies make sure to not skip your child’s eye health. You can’t underestimate the importance of ensuring your… Read More

Having poor color vision is a problem that is more common than you would think. Most people refer to having poor color vision as suffering from “colorblindness,” however, there are different levels at which you can be “colorblind.” People who only see in black and white and experience true “colorblindness” are incredibly rare. 

Colorblindness runs… Read More