Do you have a habit of rubbing your eyes? It’s the kind of thing we tend to do without really noticing whenever we’re tired, our eyes are itchy or dry, or we get something stuck in them. It’s an automatic response to try to alleviate the issue. The trouble is that it’s likely to do more h...

It’s difficult to enjoy a beautiful spring day through swollen eyes and a stuffy nose. Why is springtime so often accompanied by red, puffy, and itchy eyes? The answer isn’t always allergies, so let’s look at the different things that can cause allergy symptoms in the spring and what we can...

We blink multiple times every minute, but do you know why it’s so important? Time yourself for a minute and see how many times you blink. The average for adults is between ten and twenty times per minute, with each blink lasting a tenth of a second. Blinking Cleans and Refreshes Our Eyes Every ...

Orthokeratology or corneal refractive therapy aims to lessen the symptoms of myopia. Wearing corrective lenses to slow down the progression of myopia may sound like a fairy tale, but it is a reality. The idea of ortho-k lenses is also not new. That said, ortho-k lenses are just beginning to make advances. Some of their benefits include:

Uncorrected vision problems can lead to symptoms you might not expect, like frequent headaches. If you deal with a lot of headaches, scheduling an eye exam would be well worth your time, even if only to rule a vision problem out as a cause. Headaches aren’t always tied to vision and every visio...

Indoor tanning is NOT a safe alternative to sunbathing, including for eye health. In fact, indoor tanning is so unsafe that a group of eye doctors, dermatologists, surgeons, and other physicians went before Congress to brief them about the negative health effects, and the World Health Organizatio...

It’s not a word that most people use every day, but myopia is becoming an increasingly more common condition. Myopia, more commonly known as nearsightedness, is the inability to see objects clearly at a distance.

For Workplace Eye Wellness Month, we’re giving you a guide to protecting your eye health at work! Obviously, eye safety will mean something very different depending on the type of work you do. Working on a computer is very different from working at a worksite, so we’re dividing the tips into ...

Eye exams (from a real optometrist, not an app) are critical for maintaining lifelong healthy vision. We want to celebrate Save Your Vision Month by making an entire blog post out of the top reasons everyone should put an eye exam on their calendar. The ideal frequency of your eye exams depends o...

Glasses or contact lenses might be small, but they make a massive difference in our daily lives. Anyone who wears glasses or contacts (unless they’ve had them since they were toddlers) can remember what it was like to suddenly be able to see individual leaves and blades of grass when they start...