When a foreign body enters your eye, be it dust, a lash, anything at all, extra tears are produced in order to eliminate it. This is a defense mechanism to help expel the foreign object from the eye. The tearing...
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Watery eyes due to dryness
Sometimes dryness can be caused by poor quality tears. The tear film is made up of 3 layers, lipid layer, water layer and the mucin layer. The top layer, which is the lipid or fat layer, becomes less stable with...
Watery Eyes due to allergies.
Watery eyes is one of the most common complaints at the office. The causes can be so varied that an extensive history and examination are often necessary to completely sort out the problem. Producing extra tears is often your eyes’...
Treatment for floaters
Treatment Most eye floaters don’t need to be treated. While learning to cope with them costs some time and frustration, many people are able to ignore them more easily over time. When floaters are so large or so numerous they...
When to worry about floaters
When to consult Eye floaters and flashes in the eye are an urgent matter for your optometrist, especially if they appear suddenly. They often signal retinal detachments, which could cause blindness. You should always mention any vision changes or eye...
What Causes Floaters
What causes floaters? Most of the time, age-related changes in your vitreous are the cause of eye floaters. As your eyes get older, the vitreous jelly deteriorates: it becomes more liquid, starts to sag and pull away from the inside...
Floaters
Floaters are a common complaint. What are they, should you worry about them or not? The next three posts will attempt to answer these questions. First…. What are eye floaters—and what are they doing in my eye? Eye floaters appear...
Children’s development
“A child is taught nothing- he learns everything- and vision is the supreme mechanism a child possesses for the interpretation of his world. All other mechanisms are important for a total child, but they are all subservient to vision”-Getman. This...
Multifocal lenses
Multifocals are also known as Varifocals or Progressive lenses. They offer a continuous, gradual change in prescription strength from the lower (reading correction) to the upper (distance correction) portion of the lens, providing correction for all distances. Progressives lenses derive their...
Bifocal Lenses
Bifocals are lenses with two prescriptions on them. There is a line on the lens dividing the two zones, into distance (top) and reading (bottom). These lenses are usually prescribed for people over the age of 40, who need a...