With quarantine restrictions being loosened, more people are visiting beaches and pools this summer season. If you’re one of these people, don’t let irritated eyes ruin your day out. In today’s post, your local optometrist and eye care specialist at Eyes on Norbeck shares tips on how to protect your eyes while swimming.
Can a Proper Diet Help Lower the Risk of Cataracts?
Cataracts are one of the leading causes of blindness. It can be caused by one or more factors, one of which is heredity and there is no known way to prevent it. However, a proper diet can help lower the risk of cataracts. To coincide with Cataract Awareness Month, local optometrist and eye care center Eyes on […]
How to Adjust to Your New Eyeglasses
If you’re just getting your first pair of eyeglasses or are getting replacements with stronger prescription, you’re probably concerned about how long it will take for you to adjust. In today’s post, Eyes on Norbeck shares tips on how to adjust to your new eyeglasses.
How Do You Know When to Update Your Eye Prescription?
Optometrists prescribe people with either eyeglasses or contact lenses if they need vision correction. Many people do not replace their eyewear as long as they can still see clearly on them. Over time, your vision changes, and you’ll only know it after seeing your eye doctor.
Which Nutrients Promote Good Eye Health?
A healthy lifestyle and diet can help you avoid different health problems and eye conditions. Meanwhile, poor habits such as smoking and drinking excessive amounts of alcohol have adverse effects on your overall health. If you want to maintain good eye health, knowing which kinds of food to include in your meals will help.
Common Misconceptions About Lazy Eye
Despite the fact lazy eye (also known as amblyopia) affects 2 out of every 100 children, there are still a lot of misconceptions about the condition. Eyes on Norbeck, your local optometrist, explains how this condition develops and debunks some of these myths below:
Is It Safe for Kids to Wear Contacts?
Vision problems can adversely impact your child’s learning and development. That’s because vision skills— like focusing the eyes and using information gathered from sight—don’t come naturally to children. They need to be learned through visual stimulation. To correct vision problems, optometrists would usually recommend prescription eyeglasses. But what about contact lenses? Are they suitable for children? […]
What Are Styes? Symptoms, Causes, Treatment
Styes are the result of a bacterial infection. They are painful red bumps that typically appear in or on your eyelid. They are small bumps, but styes cause significant amounts of discomfort and pain. With a little home treatment, most styes last only several days. However, if you notice that your stye isn’t going away, […]
Caring for Your Eyes at Work
Working in an office can put a strain on your eyes. Harsh fluorescent lighting, not enough natural light, dark work areas, blue light from computer screens and touchscreen devices, and many other things combine to produce eyestrain. This situation is so common that more people are in need of eyeglasses for vision correction, as well as protection […]
Eye Discharge: Should You be Worried About It?
As you sleep, you may accumulate discharge at the corner of your eyes. Also known as “sleep”, this discharge is a combination of mucus, oil, skin cells and other debris. It looks a bit unpleasant, but is it actually something you need to be worried about? Eyes on Norbeck, the go-to specialist for computer vision exam in […]
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