Summer’s here! Fire up the BBQ and get in the pool. Hitting the pool will reset your body temperature—and your mood. It can also be a fun way to get fit. But what happens if you resurface with red, irritated eyes? You don’t want swimmer’s eye to ruin your pool experience! To prevent this condition, check out the safety advice below before you venture into the water this summer.
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.”
Or should it be, “A red wine a day keeps cataracts away?’
Yes, really. Research has established a link between low-to-moderate alcohol consumption and reduced risk of cataract formation. Since alcohol is far more often linked to negative health effects, you might want to celebrate this one.
If you’re wondering, does alcohol affect vision, we’re breaking it all down in this guide! Here’s all you need to know.
Are you becoming more sensitive to light and challenged by glare? Experiencing changes in your vision? You may be developing cataracts in eyes.
You’re not alone. The National Eye Institute estimates 50 million Americans will be living with cataracts by 2050.
Following are frequently asked questions about cataracts, and of course, the answers.
Remember the first time you put your contact lenses in? Ahh… love at first sight, right? You could suddenly see fabulously and felt great about not having to depend on glasses. But something’s changed, that is, your vision. Your contact lenses no longer provide the correction you need to clearly see objects both near and far. Chances are, you’re now dealing with presbyopia, and what you really need are contacts for reading.
Presbyopia is a declining ability to focus on close-up objects. When trying to read something with small type—say a restaurant menu, food package, or phone—you begin by stretching your arm further away to focus.
Presbyopia is an inevitable (but unenviable) change you’re bound to begin noticing sometime in your 40s.
Not so long ago, you had only one option to correct the problem: reading glasses. Today, you do have options. So, if you favor contacts, you need not get discouraged and trade them in for glasses.
Today, a range of contact lens options is available that deliver vision correction for different focal lengths.
One-third of the U.S. population is currently affected by myopia, and childhood myopia is also on the rise. And the World Health Organization reports the numbers are bound to grow massively. In fact, they claim that by the year 2050, half the world’s population will experience myopia.
The WHO goes on to say that 20% of those individuals, especially in underdeveloped countries, will also be at a significantly increased risk for blindness.
