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5 Essential Eye Safety Tips for Halloween

Halloween is just around the corner, and with it, the chance to dress up and embrace your spooky side. Depending on the costume you choose, you may find yourself wearing eyewear or using cosmetics to enhance your fearsome look. However, whether you are dressing as a wicked werewolf, fearsome fairy, or spooky soldier, there is a chance that your chosen costume could prove harmful to your eyes. To help keep yours safe and your vision intact, here are our scarily good essential eye safety tips for Halloween.


Types of Eye Emergencies

Eye doctors treat many eye problems every day; however, few of them are true emergencies. Eye emergencies such as chemical injuries, mechanical globe injuries, and retinal detachment can cause permanent loss of vision if not treated promptly.


Candidates for Specialty Lenses

For contact lens wearers, there are more choices than ever before. This means that contact wearers no longer have to make do with ill-fitting lenses or lenses that don’t give the wearer great vision. There are great options on the market today designed to fit even uniquely shaped eyes. There are contact lenses available for many different kinds of vision problems.


Diagnosing and Care for Macular Degeneration

Macular degeneration diagnosis starts with a review of your medical and family history. From there, the ophthalmologist or optometrist moves on to conduct several eye tests.


Diagnosing Diabetic Eye Diseases With Optomap

The American Diabetes Association is aware of the huge increase in the number of people with diabetes. A large percentage of these patients show symptoms of diabetic macular edema (DME) and diabetic retinopathy (DR). To make more accurate diagnoses of diabetic eye diseases, ultra-wide retinal imaging (UWF) or Optomap® has proven extremely useful. It enables early visualization of retinal pathologies that fundus photography cannot detect. If you want to understand how helpful Optomap is in diagnosing diabetic eye diseases, here’s what you should know.


Slow Nearsightedness: Myopia Management Options

Experts believe that the earlier patients with myopia undergo treatment to slow or halt its progression, the better their overall long-term vision will be. In many instances, it can even prevent patients from the early onset of many serious eye conditions. And the good news is that most myopia management options can be started as young as 8 years of age. Here’s what you need to know about myopia management. Treatment options.


Importance of Routine Pediatric Eye Exams

Your child(ren) should have his or her first eye exam at 6-12 months of age, if possible. If no problems are present, your child’s next exam will be between the age of three and five and then before starting school. Once your child starts kindergarten, annual eye exams are recommended.  


How's your child's prescription?

Does your child's prescription seem to get worse year after year?  Childhood myopia (nearsightedness) is on the rise and it's more than just needing stronger glasses.


Multifocal Contact Lenses

Specially designed multifocal contact lenses adjust the distance focus just like a regular contact lens, but they also adjust the way vision is focused at intermediate and near.  These specific adjustments ultimately result in slowing the elongation of the eye…or slowing the progression of myopia.


Atropine

here are a number of studies that show Atropine in 1.0% concentration can control the progression of myopia up to 75% or more.  However, there are many side effects to using the drop at this concentration, including pupil dilation which causes increased light sensitivity and the inability to focus on near objects.  


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