Keratoconus: Overview
Keratoconus is a condition affecting the cornea Keratoconus is the thinning of the cornea the clear dome-shaped outer surface of your eye. Eventually, the cornea bulges outward into a cone shape causing blurred vision, sensitivity to light and difficulty seeing at night. Most commonly affecting individuals between the ages of 10 to 25, the chance…
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What To Do About Red Eyes
Do you often use over the counter eye drops to reduce eye redness? Anti-redness eye drops temporarily reduce the size of the blood vessels on your eye, which brightens the eye’s overall appearance. These drops may briefly reduce redness, but frequent use can permanently enlarge the blood vessels on your eye. This is called Rebound…
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Ocular Herpes
Ocular Herpes Can Cause Permanent Blindness Ocular Herpes is a common, recurrent viral infection that affects the eyes. This type of herpes virus can cause inflammation and scarring of the cornea. One type of Ocular Herpes is known as Herpes Simplex Viral Keratitis (ker·a·tit·i·des), or HSVK. HSVK is typically transmitted through contact with another person…
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How Diabetes Can Impact Your Vision
What You Should Know About Diabetes and Your Vision Diabetes mellitus refers to a group of diseases that affect how your body uses blood glucose, commonly called blood sugar. Glucose is vital to your health, because it’s an important source of energy for the cells that make up your muscles and tissues, and it’s also…
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Learn More About Lazy Eye
What is amblyopia or “lazy eye”? In order for a child to develop normal, healthy vision, the brain must receive clear and aligned images from both eyes. There are several conditions that can interfere with this process, and over a sufficient length of time, a child’s developing brain can learn to permanently ignore the ‘weaker’…
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Are You Losing Your Vision?
When you first learn that your vision cannot be restored, it can be devastating. While this may not be what you planned for your life, there are ways to move forward. Over one million Americans are legally blind and still manage the tasks of everyday living with competence, ease, and joy. Rather than focusing on…
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Ocular Migraines
Ocular Migraines May Lead to Classic Migraines An ocular migraine occurs when blood vessels in part of the brain responsible for vision temporarily spasm. Ocular migraines cause a disturbance in one’s vision, known as an aura, which typically lasts from several minutes, to about an hour. An aura may appear as a blank spot, flickering…
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The Childhood Myopia Epidemic
Did you know that myopia, or nearsightedness, affects half of all young adults in the US and Europe? In areas where kids spend significant time indoors, myopia is becoming more and more common. Spending too much time indoors at a young age can impact the eye’s development. Being indoors can cause the eye to grow…
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What’s A Chalazion?
A Chalazion is a small, firm bulge in the eyelid, caused by a blockage or infection in the duct responsible for lubricating the eye. The initial symptoms of a Chalazion are eyelid tenderness, swelling and increased tearing. Usually a Chalazion will shrink within a few weeks. When the area doesn’t heal on its own, the…
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Thinking About An Eyelid Lift?
A treatment overview of blepharoplasty, a surgery designed to reduce the signs of aging around the eyelids. The first thing people see when they look at you is your eyes. When it comes to expressing thoughts and emotions, your eyes are an important facial feature for communicating these feelings. If your eyes look tired, people…
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