[Optometry Student Share] Optical Characteristics of General Purpose Progressives

The first successful progressive addition lenses were designed to maintain some of the characteristics of a bifocal. One criterion considered to be important was maintaining traditional lens optics in the upper half of the lens. If this is done, the power from the midline upward corresponds exactly to the prescribed distance power. At the midpoint of the lens and downward following the expected path of the eyes, plus power begins to increase. Once the full add power is reached, lens power does not vary.

[Optometry Student Share] Get your fix of eye healthy foods

Get your fix of eye solid nourishments and ensure yourself from eye sickness in the meantime with this simple aide to the best eye sound sustenances. 

[Optometry Student Share] What’s gradual, painless and dubbed the Silent Thief of Sight?

The answer is Glaucoma, an eye disease that gradually makes you lose your vision.  If you've been proactive in screening your health, you might as well surely have a really exceptional thought of certain health conditions that run in the crew.  for instance, mother has high cholesterol, father has diabetes and you recollect your grandma utilization eye drops for something.  Knowing your family eye history is exceptionally imperative in light of the fact that most eye diseases have a tendency to be hereditary.  Glaucoma, for instance, has a tendency to run on the mother's side of the crew.  If your mother has glaucoma, verify you tell your optometrist. 

[Optometry Student Share] Back to School – Vision problems could equal behavioral issues

Your kid may have inconvenience checking whether they aren't performing to their potential in school, or have behavioral issues.

[Optometry Student Share] I have an astigmatism. What is that?

Astigmatism is a term utilized by optometrists to portray a prescription for one eye that needs two forces to carry it into centering. It is not an ailment or something that will make you go blind, however it can make things blurry at separation and at close.

[Optometry Student Share] The ABCs ­of ­Cataracts

Cataracts are an unavoidable truth. Any individual who lives long enough will get them and practically every living soul knows somebody who has had them.  The great news is, with the most recent engineering accessible, enhancing your vision is exceptionally protected and will in many cases abandon you with preferred vision without glasses over you had soon after the waterfall.

How about we take a gander at the Abcs of cataracts:

[Optometry Student Share] Getting your kid a video game this holiday? Vision concerns answered

With the holiday season in full impact, you can wager that numerous children will be accepting a movie amusement or another framework in the following not many weeks.  indeed, one million Playstation 4 reassures were soon to be discharge in Malaysia.

[Optometry Student Share] Regular myths about eyeglasses exposed!

As an optometrist, I regularly hear a mixture of misinterpretations about eyeglasses from my patients. Most concerns succumb to a couple of general classes with a couple of odd ones sprinkled in. I might want to take a concise minute to address a percentage of the most widely recognized ones I listen:

[Optometry Student Share] Color blindness – the causes and the effects

When we consider somebody being color blind, we might surmise that he sees the planet in dark and white, or shades of ash.  But that is to a great degree extraordinary.  actually, very nearly 8% of men have some type of color vision deficiency where certain colors are more challenging to recognize, or don't show up as vivid as different colors.  (Perhaps that clarifies the faulty wardrobe decisions my spouse here and there makes.)

[Optometry Student Share] How our vision darken: Chemists split the code of cataract creation

Discoveries by Uci, German specialists could help in sparing sight of millions

Irvine, Calif., Dec. 5, 2013 – Groundbreaking new discoveries by Uc Irvine and German scientific experts about how cataracts structure could be utilized to help counteract the planet's heading reason for visual deficiency, which right now influences almost 20 million individuals worldwide.

[Optometry Student Share] What is Low Vision?

When you have reduced vision as a result of an eye disease, you can be classified as having low vision.  Those with low vision usually complain of difficulty reading small text, recognizing faces or reading street signs.  An optometrist with a sub-specialty in low vision seeks to maximize the best functioning area of the eye.  This can be done with the use of low vision aids and devices.

[Optometry Student Share] New Human Body Part Discovered

The newest addition to human anatomy is just 15 microns thick, but its discovery will make eye surgery safer and simpler. Harminder Dua, a professor at the University of Nottingham, recently found a new layer in the human cornea, and he's calling it (can you guess?) Dua's layer.

[Optometry Student Share] World’s First Telescopic Contact Lens Gives You Superman-Like Vision

An international team of researchers have created the first telescopic contact lens; a contact lens that, when it’s equipped, gives you the power to zoom your vision almost three times. Yes, this is the first ever example of a bionic eye that effectively gives you Superman-like eagle-eye vision.

[Optometry Student Share] supranuclear disorder

Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) (or the Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome, after the Canadian physicians who described it in 1963) is a degenerative disease involving the gradual deterioration and death of specific volumes of the brain

[Optometry Student Share] Oculolinctus, an Eye-licking Fetish

The popularity of the bizarre practice, sometimes called 'worming', has been blamed for a rise in cases of conjunctivitis. And it freaks us out just to think about it

[D' Spectacle Boy Shared] Drugs that could help people to live to 150

Drugs that could help people to live to 150 by slowing the ageing process are being developed by scientist.

The drugs are synthetic versions of resveratrol, found in red wine, an organic chemical believed to have an anti-ageing effect, by boosting activity of a protein called SIRT1.

GSK, the pharmaceutical firm, is testing them on people with particular medical conditions, namely Type II diabetes and psoriasis, a serious skin condition.

[D' Spectacle Boy Shared] How to permanently get rid of your red, bloodshot eyes.

Dr. Boxer Wachler has invented a surgical technique, called I-Brite Eye Whitening which can permanently remove conspicuous redness and brown or yellow spots from the eyes.

[D' Spectacle Boy Shared] Laser Treatment of Eye Floaters

Some people call them floaters. Eye doctors call them "vitreous opacities." Emily Flynn of Dunedin, New Zealand, called hers "a little fuzzball." She flew halfway around the world to have it removed.

[D' Spectacle Boy Shared] Overnight contacts may help slow eyesight deterioration in children.

Our office is pleased to offer CRT (Corneal Refractive Therapy) lenses as mentioned in the followoing article from the UK's Daily Mail. (10/20 Hodgekiss). After fitting the lenses myself for the last 5 years, it has been my experience that there is very little increase in a child's prescription. It is most encouraging to be able to fit children with a contact lens that will halt or slow the progression of myopia!

[D' Spectacle Boy Shared] Are you having trouble reading this? Maybe you have CVS.

How about if you are (or were) reading it on an iPhone or Blackberry? There is no doubt that intensive staring at computer screens, let alone tiny screens like those on the iPhone or Blacberry, is not exactly good for your eyes.