Diabetic Diet The glycemic load (GL) of food is a number that estimates how much the food will raise a person's blood glucose level after eating it. Glycemic load estimates the impact of carbohydrate consumption using the [...]
Pingueculae are found more often on the nasal side of the conjunctiva. While most pingueculae are found over the age of 40, they are not uncommon in 20 and 30 years old adults who spend significant time in the sun.
Pterygium in the conjunctiva is characterized by elastotic degeneration of collagen (actinic elastosis) and fibro vascular proliferation.
Uveitis Painful red eye: requires an urgent referral and thorough examination by an Ophthalmologist or Optometrist and urgent treatment to control the inflammation.
Hyperopia,farsighted, Longsighted, or hypermetropia, is a defect when the eyeball is too short or the cornea too flat. This causes difficulty focusing on near objects, and in extreme cases a sufferer to be unable to focus on objects at any distance.
posterior capsular opacification (PCO, also called an after-cataract). The posterior capsular cells undergo hyperplasia and cellular migration, showing up as a thickening and clouding of the posterior lens capsule (which is left behind when the [...]
Syringe Tear ducts: Probing and Irrigation of the lacrimal drainage system to assess any lacrimal system obstruction in the case of persistant watery eyes
Herpes viruses establish lifelong infections, and the virus cannot yet be eradicated from the body. Treatment usually involves general-purpose antiviral drugs that interfere with viral replication,
Shingles or herpes zoster is a viral disease characterized by a painful skin rash with blisters in a limited area on one side of the body (left or right), often in a stripe. The initial infection with varicella zoster virus (VZV) causes the acute, [...]
Intraretinal microvascular abnormalities (IRMA) are abnormalities of the blood vessels that supply the retina of the eye, a sign of diabetic retinopathy.
As the Diabetic Retinopathy progresses, severe nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy enters an advanced, or proliferative (PDR), stage when blood vessels proliferate (i.e. grow).
pseudoexfoliation syndrome is tiny microscopic white or grey granular flakes which are clumps of proteins within the eye this can lead to Glaucoma
Retinal detachments are usually caused by retinal tears, and a scleral buckle can be used to close the retinal break. The scleral buckle is secured around the eyeball under the conjunctiva. This moves the wall of the eye closer to the [...]
Custom designed Progressive or Multi Focal Lenses Graduated or Progresssive lenses made for you personally,diffferent head positions and indivual eye moments require personally desigened lenses
RGP Lens also known as Gas Permeable Rigid lens. Rigid gas permeable lenses are rigid contact lenses made of oxygen-permeable polymers. Initially developed in the late 1970s, and through the 1980s and 1990s, they were an [...]
Here's some way's to put in and remove your contact lenses; there is no CORRECT way do what works BUT KEEP IT CLEAN!!!! case and hands Gadgets are handy but your fingers attached and hopefully always there. Despite the comments on this [...]
When you have Myopias The eyes focal is in front of the retina allowig close objects to be seen clearly but the distance is blurred.
The third cranial nerve innervates 4 of the 6 extra ocular muscles, if it is paralyzed the eye will turn down and out, on that side, often severe ptosis (droopy upper lid), often a dilated pupil and loss of near vision in young people
Abducent nerve or 6th Cranial Nerve supplies the lateral rectus muscle If damaged the eye will not turn out
The cranial nerves control a large number of our social, sensory and motor functions this is a brief overview of their importance.
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