• How to Protect Your Eyes from Allergens

    As many as 50 million people in the United States suffer from seasonal allergies, impacting up to 30 percent of adults. Apart from the usual congestion, symptoms often include itchy eyes, watery eyes, red eyes and even swollen eyelids. Allergies can even cause…

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  • How Diabetes Effects Eyesight

    As if diabetes isn’t debilitating enough, it can also cause complications potentially causing severe vision loss. Such complications include diabetic retinopathy, cataracts (the clouding of the eyes) and glaucoma (optic nerve damage caused by increased fluid…

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  • Do Video Games Hurt Your Eyes?

    With so many children playing video games for extended periods of time, it’s easy to assume there are only negative consequences for their eyes; although what’s harmful in excess is actually beneficial in moderation. Studies have shown that first-person…

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  • Is LASIK Surgery Right for You?

    Since the 1990s, LASIK (laser in-situ keratomileusis) has been providing successful laser vision correction to people suffering from myopia (nearsightedness), hypermetropia (farsightedness) and astigmatism. As of 2011, over 11 million eye care surgeries have…

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