Latest Vision Articles

1. Age-related vision changes and treatments

Age-related decline in eye is common among people in their 60s or older. Some eye problems such as presbyopia and cataracts are quite normal, while more serious age-related eye diseases such as glaucoma, macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy may affect old people’s daily lives.

2. Causes for eye twitching

Eye twitching bothers many people and even drives them crazy. Actually, it is pretty common and mostly happens to the lower eyelid. Eyelid tics can last for weeks and even months but most of them are benign and harmless.

3. Causes and treatments for optic neuritis

Optic neuropathy refers to optic nerve abnormalities or damage caused by blocked blood flow or toxic exposure. Another less serious eye condition is optic neuritis, which is inflammation of the optic nerve.

4. New lens designs using wavefront technology

Traditional eye exams that take use of letters and images are limited, subjective and sometimes inaccurate, because the result is based on the patient’s response. These traditional eye exams also can not reflect underlying vision problems.

5. Cause and surgery for drooping eye

As people age, their eyelids are always drooping, which is defined as ptosis. Although ptosis occurs in both adults and children, the old account for a major portion. The fact is that if a person compares a recent photo of his or her face with one from 10 or 20 years ago, he or she may realize obvious drooping eyelid that has developed over these years.

6. An overview of Sjogren’s syndrome

The Sjogren’s Syndrome Foundation points out that 90% out of 4 million patients who have the disease are women, since older women beyond menopause are susceptible to it. Sjogren’s syndrome affects moist and lubricated eyes and mouth by damaging related glands, resulting in dry eyes.

7. Acute and chronic forms of glaucoma

Most types of glaucoma are associated with narrow filtration angle, which hinders the outflow of eye fluids so that high IOP is caused. High IOP spikes and damages the optic nerve, which is responsible for images transmission from the eye to the brain. Optic nerve damage in turn causes vision loss.

8. A variety of glaucoma surgeries

Glaucoma with high IOP probably brings high risk of vision loss, so that early detection and treatments including glaucoma surgery are important. Currently, both laser and non-laser glaucoma surgeries aim at either decreasing the production of internal eye fluids or increasing the outflow of them. These surgeries can remove the high IOP and stabilize normal IOP, thus optic nerve is also under protection.

9. A guide to various eye injuries

Eye is one of the most important organs for every individual so that protecting your eyes from injuries is quite necessary. There are some ways to offer eye protection such as safety goggles or glasses. However, eye injuries still happen quite often. This article is a guide to common eye injuries.

10. A comparison between pinguecula and pterygium

Both pinguecula and pterygium occur on the surface of the sclera, so that many people are confused. In fact, these two eye problems are different in causes, symptoms and treatments.