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The Purpose of Blinking

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 ...


Good Practices for Safe Night Driving

Those of us without perfect eyesight may find it a stressful adjustment each year. It can even be a dangerous one if we don’t take the dangers of night driving into consideration...


The Eyes-Headaches Connection

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...


The Eyes-Headaches Connection

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...


Tanning Beds: Not Great for Eye Health

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...


Eye Safety in the Workplace

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 two categories...


Eye Safety in the Workplace

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 ...


Why Are Eye Exams Important?

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 Care and Contact Lens Safety

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...


The Full Spectrum of Color Blindness

There are many different ways a person can be colorblind, and only the rarest type results in seeing in black and white. Complete color blindness is called monochromacy, and it’s so rare that only one person in 33,000 has it. For most people with color blindness, it only affects certain colors,...


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