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Enjoy The Fireworks (But Protect Your Eyes)

If we want to be able to keep enjoying the sight of the rockets’ red glare in future years, however, we need to make sure we’re not putting our eyes at unnecessary risk of injury...


Pink Eye: Types, Treatment, And Prevention

Have your eyes been incredibly itchy, watery, and red lately? These are the main symptoms of conjunctivitis, or pink eye, which is the inflammation of the conjunctiva — the clear, thin outer layer of the whites of our eyes and the insides of our eyelids. Luckily, conjunctivitis is both preventa...


Do You Know How Color Blindness Works?

It’s easy to assume that being colorblind means living in a black-and-white film full time, but that’s not how it works in the vast majority of cases. Color Vision And Genetics A recessive gene located on the X chromosome is the main culprit behind most color blindness, which is why men are m...


Convincing Your Child That Glasses Rule

Being able to see clearly might not always seem worth it to them compared to how strange the glasses feel on their nose and ears or what their peers think...


Convincing Your Child That Glasses Rule

Wearing glasses for the first time can be a difficult adjustment for any child. Being able to see clearly might not always seem worth it to them compared to how strange the glasses feel on their nose and ears or what their peers think, so what can you do as a parent to help them get in the habit ...


Wear Glasses? Follow These Makeup Tips

We use makeup to hide blemishes, enhance our natural beauty, and create our own personal style, but for glasses wearers, this can get a little tricky. We know the struggle. Makeup styles that would look fantastic on someone without glasses might become barely noticeable once the glasses go on. So...


The Benefits Of Vitamin A And Beta-Carotene

The two most important ones for promoting eye health and preventing vision loss are vitamin A and beta-carotene...


An Active Lifestyle For Healthy Eyes

One of the best things you can do to keep your eyes healthy is to keep your body active! Exercising helps us get stronger, stay in shape, and feel great. An active lifestyle is essential for our overall health, with benefits such as reducing our risk of developing chronic health problems like hea...


Lifting The Fog Around Cataracts

Cataracts are the world’s leading cause of blindness. In the US alone, they affect over 20 million adults over the age of forty and half of seniors aged eighty and up. Babies are sometimes born with congenital cataracts and require surgery so that their vision can develop normally. How Do Catar...


Swimming Pool Eye Safety Tips

For many of us, summer time means a lot of trips to the pool, but before we dive in, we should take a look at what we should be doing to protect our eyes while we’re cooling off underwater...


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