For Millions, the Answer is Yes

We hydrate our bodies with water, hydrate our skin with lotions and potions, but what are we doing to keep our eyes hydrated, healthy and looking their best?

While few are aware of it, eyes dry daily due to our environment, lifestyle and physical condition.

In fact, 77 million Americans suffer from symptoms of dry eye and for many, dry eye is a chronic condition that can significantly impact the way they live and sleep.

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You look in the mirror and there they are. Those ugly dark bags and shadows  under your eyes. They make you look tired and worn out, older than you really are.

What causes eye bags and how do you get rid of them?

One of the most common causes of dark under eye bags is not enough sleep. Surprisingly, too much sleep can also cause them.

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A recently introduced surgical implant procedure, known as Intacs or KeraVision rings, corrects mild nearsightedness (myopia) but, unlike other optical implant surgery, it is completely reversible.

The Intac implants can be replaced to correct the changes in vision that occurs normally with age, or they can be removed altogether.

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The prospect of losing your vision is not a pleasant one. But the reality is that a great many people will lose at least a good deal of sight as they age.

While some will become significantly visually impaired, others with become legally blind. Three age-related eye diseases are the primary cause of this vision loss.  This article will briefly discuss these diseases.

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Despite contact lenses to correct visual impairment being available for many years, constant developments have given wearers an ever widening choice that includes ease of use, convenience, sight correction and cosmetic enhancement.

If you are considering contact lenses or even if you are an existing user it is worth getting up to date knowledge of the variety of lenses available before visiting your Ophthalmologist, Optometrist or Optician.

When your 'eye practitioner' realizes that you have taken the trouble to find out about the variety of contact lenses and their benefits he is more likely to advise you in greater detail about the choices and their suitability for your needs.

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Floaters are those little dark specs that you see in the background of your eye intermittently.  They may form to one side and move as you move your eye to see them, so they are always just out of direct line of sight.

They are generally easiest to see when looking at plain back grounds such as a clear sky or a light plain colored wall. 

The floaters are actually small pieces of gel or cells that are inside the vitreous fluid.  That is the clear jelly like substance or fluid that is found in the inside of your eye.

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Now there is an exciting option for those having to wear contact lenses or spectacles to correct their vision.

Using highly accurate measuring instruments and very sophisticated surgical procedures it is now possible to remove a defective natural lens from an eye and replace it with a soft lens implant that can restore perfect or near perfect vision.

This procedure is known as Clear Lens Replacement (CLR) surgery.

For a century or more, surgeons have had the skills to remove the lens from an eye, mainly to restore some sort of impaired and unfocused vision to cataract sufferers.

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One of the latest procedures to correct vision impairment is Lasik eye surgery.

The best case scenario for patients successfully undergoing this treatment is that there are no longer any vision problems or, at the very least, a significant reduction in dependency upon contact lenses or eyeglasses is likely to be experienced.

What to Expect

The first stage is for the eye surgeon to take very accurate measurements to establish just how much reshaping of the cornea is necessary.

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Your Eyes and Pregnancy – What you need to know

When she becomes pregnancy every woman is aware that there are changes to her body that are entirely natural and obvious, However, many do not know or consider the effects of  pregnancy on the eyes. 

It is important that you know of the changes that take place with your vision and eye health but do not be alarmed. The vast majority of reasonably healthy women suffer no lasting eye health or vision problems during pregnancy and very many do not notice any changes whatsoever.

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Something in the eye! It happens to all of us from time to time, whether it is an eyelash, dirt, grit, paint or any one of 100s of foreign bodies the result is the same. Discomfort at the least, excruciating pain at worst.

One of two things can happen when a foreign body gets into the eye. It can either stay on the surface or penetrate into the eye.

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