Improving Your Eye Health

• 4 Simple Ways You Know You Perhaps Need Cataract Surgery

  6 May 2021

  Eye health is critical, especially as you get older. Sometimes, issues with your eyes come from a problem limited to the eyes. At other times, eye problems might result from underlying health issues. Cataracts are one of the eye problems that conditions like diabetes can cause. Once they form, your vision becomes blurrier by the day, and if you don't see an eye doctor in good time, you might end up blind.

• What Are Your Treatment Options When Glaucoma Meds Don't Work?

  27 January 2021

  When you are diagnosed with glaucoma, your doctor will usually start by prescribing one or more medications to hopefully bring the condition under closer control. These medications may include prostaglandin eye drops, beta blockers, and carbonic anhydrase inhibitors. Some patients respond well to these medications, and others continue to experience increasing intraocular eye pressure in spite of taking their meds. If meds have not controlled your glaucoma sufficiently, then here are a few treatments your eye doctor may recommend as next steps.

• Recommended Treatment Options For Diabetic Retinopathy

  2 November 2020

  If you have poorly managed diabetes or long-standing diabetes, then you may be at risk for vision loss. One of the most common ocular effects of persistently high blood sugar levels is diabetic retinopathy. This condition is caused by retinal blood vessel damage, and while early retinopathy may be asymptomatic, advanced retinopathy may lead to complete vision loss. Here are some diabetic eye treatment options your eye doctor may recommend if you have retinopathy.

• Proper Eye Care For When You're Outdoors

  18 June 2020

  Did you know that you can sunburn your eyes, even when you don't look directly at the sun? Or that allergies in your eyes can cause more than simple discomfort? There are many ways your eyes can be susceptible to injury or worse when you're outdoors, which can be prevented by performing proper eye care as recommended by your eye care center specialist. If you are currently suffering from itchy, red, blurry, or watering eyes and using cold compresses, allergy medications, or hydrating eye drops are not helping and you feel the outdoors is to blame, see your eye care specialist right away.

• Diabetes & Your Eyes: Things You Need to Know as a Diabetic

  13 September 2019

  When you have diabetes, multiple things about how your body functions are affected, and that is including your eyes and your vision. If you are diabetic, it is critical to have your eyes examined by an eye doctor on a regular basis, but there are always questions that can come about. Here is a look at some of the important things you will want to know about your vision if you are diabetic.