Eye Health Archives

Does Your Eyesight Improve After Quitting Smoking?

Written By Michael Healy

When you think of smoking-related diseases and conditions, lung cancer and emphysema are likely the first things that come to mind. But smoking can lead to a host of other diseases and conditions, including a shortened life span, weakened immune system, and greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and stroke.

Did you also know that smoking can have a huge impact on your vision?

Smoking cigarettes can lead to a variety of eye-related conditions and diseases, some of which can result in total vision loss.

Common smoking-related eye diseases

The following is a run-down of common vision-related diseases and conditions. Many of them develop as a natural sign of aging. However, if you’re a smoker, your likelihood of developing one of the issues mentioned below is far greater than if you were a non-smoker.

Protecting Your Eyes in the Summer Sun

Written By Michael Healy

During the warmer months we have an easy time remembering to apply sunscreen or wear protective clothing to prevent sun damage to our skin. But how often are you taking precautions to prevent sun damage to your eyes? Ultraviolet (UV) rays can be just as harmful to your eyes as they can to your skin.

Why is protecting your eyes during summer important?

There are two types of UV rays—UVA and UVB—that can prove harmful to your eyes. UVA rays can cause damage to the retina and the lens of the eye. UVB rays can cause even more damage because they are absorbed by the cornea, the outermost layer of the eye.

Aging Eyes: Common Age-Related Vision Challenges

Written By Michael Healy

You’re bound to experience changes in your vision as you age.

Perhaps you can’t focus on words at a distance as well as you’re used to. Maybe words up-close fall out of focus, even when you’re wearing glasses.

Small print? You find yourself squinting to read the menu, email, label, or text. Maybe you move what you’re trying to read a bit further away. Maybe you find yourself relocating to a more well-lit room.

These are perfectly normal changes that occur around and after 40. Read on to find out what’s happening and how you can maintain the best possible vision.

What’s happening to your vision?

Acuvue Oasys Transition Contact Lenses: Everything You Need to Know

Written By Oliver Torres

In 2018, Acuvue announced a partnership with Transitions Optical in the development of a first-of-their-kind light-sensitive soft transition contact lenses. And now, you have access to the most exciting innovation in corrective contact lenses since color contacts were introduced nearly half a century ago. Acuvue Oasys with Transitions are two-week disposable transition contact lenses that […]

What is Dry Eye Syndrome?

Written By Elvira Derhovsepian

According to the American Optometric Association (AOA), dry eye is a diagnosis with which a person has inadequate tears available to lubricate the eye.

Tears comprise a mixture of water, fatty oils and mucus that maintain the smoothness and clarity of vision while preventing the risk of eye infections. When the tear ducts do not provide the regulation of tear lubrication, patients experience constant irritation, burning, excessive tearing and blurred vision. With each blink of an eye, tears provide nourishment across the entire surface of the cornea and wash away foreign matter.