Eye Care Blog

This would seem to be the opposite of the dry eye, but in reality, sometimes is a reaction to the dry eye. Older people are commonly the victims, and the doctor must differentiate between an eye “feeling” wet vs. tears actually running down the cheeks. Read the rest of this entry »

As a patient you must decide: Do you want both eyes treated on the same day, or each eye on a different day? Each approach has advantages and disadvantages. Read the rest of this entry »

I must admit to really liking computers. There is no doubt about it, personal computers have made my work much faster and more efficient. I’d never be able to move back to a manual typewriter or adding machine. Read the rest of this entry »

Where cataract is due to abnormal body metabolism, then treatment of the metabolic disorder can sometimes prevent development of cataract, or even reverse cataract where cataract has begun. Diabetes mellitus is a good example of this. Otherwise metabolic cataract can be treated by conventional methods. It should be said at once that in most countries of the world eye-drops and medicines of ill-founded clinical value, and rarely backed by any sound medical trials, are still available. Read the rest of this entry »

Basically, good and bad characteristics, healthy and unhealthy trends, are divided into dominant and recessive. Those that are dominant are handed down and show in the offspring; those that are recessive are handed down but do not show. Further, dominance and recession are often linked to the sex of the individual. Thus we talk about traits that are ‘dominant in females’, ‘dominant in males’, ‘recessive in females’, and ‘recessive in males’.

Suppose, for example, that both parents had a recessive trait `A’. If they had nine children the chances are that only three of them would be marked by ‘A’. But if they had only two children, the chances of either of their offspring showing trait ‘A’ are small indeed, whether the trait is for weak legs or musical genius. But if both parents had dominants of a certain trait, this would almost certainly come out in the offspring. Read the rest of this entry »

As we get older, all our blood vessels acquire harder walls, making it more difficult for the heart to pump blood through the whole system, especially the smaller vessels. Resistance to the flow of blood results in increased, or ‘higher’, blood pressure. The heart simply has to work harder in order to meet and overcome the developing resistance. The small vessels of the retina, or arterioles, can be examined minutely with an ophthalmoscope and changes of hardness in their walls easily seen. Because they are so small and fine they are sometimes the first to break down, so that if the blood pressure becomes very high they may leak blood and serum. When this happens the results can easily be seen on the surface of the retina between the vessels. Read the rest of this entry »

Eye and Imagination

Imagination is closely allied to memory, for we can imagine only as well as we remember, and in the treatment of imperfect sight the two can scarcely be separated. Vision is largely a matter of imagination and memory. And since both imagination and memory are impossible without perfect relaxation, the cultivation of these faculties not only improves the interpretation of the pictures on the retina but improves the pictures themselves. Read the rest of this entry »

Only exercise your eyes when they are relaxed. Otherwise, any exercise might increase tension. Overstressed and exhausted eyes show signs of visual stress: burning eyes, a sense of pressure in or behind the eyes, headaches, twitching eyelids, dry eyes, and occasionally even fuzzy or clouded vision. All of the above may be signs of chronically stressed eyes. If you don’t give your eyes a period of relaxation, you can easily damage them further. Read the rest of this entry »