General Vision Health Topics. Mostly we talk about myopia here, which we don’t consider to be an illness. While on that subject we do often end up crossing over into related issues that you may encounter, while working to reduce your myopia.
Everything from dry eyes, to the dangers of certain antibiotics, to risks of retinal detachment and glaucoma and lattice degeneration, you’ll find all the vision health related topics in this category.
Retinal Surgery Devices Market To Grow to 2.01 Billion Dollars
As you probably already know, retinal detachment risk increases by 4x for mild myopia, and as much as 10x for high myopia (over -5 diopters).It's a real risk, and you only have a very small window to get to surgery before the detachment is likely irreversible. Which means, blindness. If you misinterpret the symptoms or don't rush to the hospital, your myopia does increase your risk of going blind by 4x to 10x.If you want the gory details, we have [...]
So Is Myopia Genetic After All?
More child myopia book excerpts: "There are a variety of causes for the symptom commonly referred to as myopia. The symptom is also a bit more nuanced than the average optometrist visit will show you. Most optometrist visits, as we covered earlier, are just designed to sell you a prescription lens. There isn’t further discussion or exploration as to nuances of the symptom, or causes. One question we need to get out of the way is whether myopia is genetic. [...]
Worried About Anxiety, Depression, Weight Gain? Should You Blame Those Glasses?
Did you know that your glasses could be responsible for anxiety and depression that you aren't even aware of? Maybe it's not that your days are monotonous and unfulfilling. Maybe your boss isn't that much of an a******. Maybe traffic isn't really that annoying.This is going to be delving a bit outside of the usual science minded approach of the site. But I have to tell you these things, get them off my blog-writing chest. Because you really should know [...]
Your Myopia: A Gateway To Glaucoma, Cataracts, & Retinal Detachment
Let's have a serious moment today, and look at prescriptions, and their long term consequences. A whole lot of medicines are poisons to varying degrees. They are beneficial to us, since they affect a specific part or organism which we can target at will. Antibiotics kill a range of bacteria in the body. We take them as prescriptions when we are affected by an infection our body is unable to resolve on its own. Of course you wouldn't take the antibiotic [...]
How To Improve Your Eyesight: Just 5 Steps
You can improve your eyesight in a matter of weeks, following a few simple steps: Want To Improve Your Eyesight? #1: Never Wear Your Distance Glasses While Reading Your distance glasses are meant to let you see clearly far away. When you use it up-close, you create a lot of eye strain. Since you have gotten your eyes used to this through years and years of increasing prescriptions, you don't even notice. But this habit is the #1 cause of progressive myopia. How [...]
A Mind Bending Premise: 20/20 Could Bad News For Your Eye Health
Bad news is a matter of context. But think about this: how many people do you know who ever got better after they went to the temple of the 20/20 worship? The thing is, what you are being told by the optometrist, the whole story about 20/20, is a fairly gigantic fallacy when it comes to the realities of your eyesight. Yes, sure. You can get glasses to let you see 20/20. Or 20/10. Or 20/8. But ... is [...]