Here’s Dodgy-Town. A whole category on questionable myopia therapies, ideas, snake oil sales, and various shortsighted treatments that warrant a closer look (and probably some derision by a certain indisputably wise and considerate eye guru).
Whether it’s Atropine drops (poison!) being advocated by “doctors” for your kid’s eyes, or Ortho-K to temporarily flatten (and possibly permanently damage) your cornea, or using subconscious sales tricks to get you to buy glasses, this category has it all. You’ll see it all, you’ll marvel and wonder how you may have missed out on all the ways you could be getting screwed. Enjoy!
(Video) Glasses F#@% Up Your Eyes!!
Since I finally got all set up with the camera and lighting and sound and things in a completely separate studio, across town, the video output has been increasing lately.Is that a good thing?If you had decent content Jake, you say. And a slightly more humanoid looking head, perhaps.Topic of the latest musing, the philosophical fact that you're getting away with nothing (for nothing), when it comes to your body and health. Think you can slap on a pair of [...]
NO WAY: Mislead By Fake Study, 1,000 UK Optometrists Prescribe Contacts To 7 Year Olds
Cooper Vision really, really wants to sell contact lenses to your children.And you really, really shouldn't let your children wear contact lenses. Why? Because permanent corneal tissue damage. Sure you can get away with wearing contact lenses for a while. But if you start off in childhood and plan on a lifetime of wearing contact lenses, you are absolutely going to end up with a rough wake up call before long. Corneal abrasion is basically unavoidable, with prolonged contact lens wear.This [...]
Selling Glasses To Children: Should Be Illegal?
Welcome back to the blog, dear kitteh. Pull up a chair, let uncle Jake tell you a story. Uncle Jake recently had a little baby boy (eight months recent, as of this writing). While that was a bit of a semi-unplanned event, it's changed Jakey's perspective on quite a few things. Among them, the thing you really get as a parent, protecting the small and innocent. If you're a parent, you know what I'm talking about. You will straight up [...]
Time to say Goodbye?
Written By DespinaContributing OptometristAs I keep saying, I love my contact lenses. They have served me well for over 30 years now. All types. I started with hard lenses, that's how desperate I was to be rid of glasses, the permanent redness winning hands down. I then progressed to gas permeables, and then, comfort at last with soft and disposable lenses. They have seen me through life until middle age quite successfully with no major hiccups or interesting stories.Recently, though, [...]
Buying A No-Name Chinese Scooter: DIY Vision Improvement
So yesterday was a little bit of a rant about plus lens therapy.I imagine you come to read the blog, and wonder if you'll find some solid discussion about clinical studies this time, or detailed and insightful student progress reports, or instead another extensive rant by the (probably you think by now) bi-polar eye guru.Could be anything, you never know. If this show was run by your standard well-groomed, properly licensed, meticulously bearded ophthalmologist, you'd probably not get a rollercoaster of [...]
Why You Might Not Want To Do “Plus Lens Therapy”
So, plus lens therapy. Yet another thing floating about the Interwebs, when you search for answers about myopia.I made a quick video a while back, about plus lens therapy.In it I point out that I didn't like how the implied premise might be highly misleading to most myopes. You might want to wear plus lenses before you end up with glasses, at a point where you're probably still largely just contending with a ciliary muscle spasm as cause of your low [...]