Eye Care & Health

FACTS ABOUT DEMODEX MITES This topic is deeply distressing on so many levels. Nobody welcomes the thought of creepy-crawlies living in their eyelashes, but if you’re knee-deep into your pets, like I am, and cannot imagine sleeping at night without your dog cuddled up next to you, the news is doubly unwelcome because there’s a…

TIPS TO AVOID WORK-RELATED EYE INJURIES Approximately 2,000 workers in the United States suffer job-related eye injuries every single day. Not just minor cuts and scratches, but serious enough accidents that require immediate medical intervention. If you work at any of these jobs, you should also know that with the right eye protection, you can…

Simply put, mudras are yoga of the hands. Certain pre-defined formations made with the fingers and hands have a deep, harmonizing impact in the mind and body, according to Buddhist and Hindu philosophies of wellness and spirituality. (If you look at figurines or paintings of the Buddha, you will notice that his hands are always…

PERMANENT EYE DAMAGE A topic about eye health that’s currently doing the rounds in social media is reading while lying down. Rumor has it that some research studies have proved a connection between this common habit and permanent eye damage. And concerned people are looking back to years of curling up in bed with a…

DISADVANTAGE OF WEARING CONTACT LENS Let’s face it. The primary reason why people wear content lenses is to look good. It’s a very persuasive reason of course, if wearing spectacles makes you feel less confident in social situations or hampers your professional life in any way. And if you haven’t yet considered the absolute freedom…

AMERICA’S EYE-HEALTHY CITY If you are one of the 166 million Americans in need of vision correction, or extremely prone to allergies and other weather-induced irritants, the environment you live in will have an enormous impact on your eyes. Here are some useful tips about geographical locations that support good eye conditions and a list…

WHAT EYE CONDITION DO PEOPLE WITH TATTOO HAVE Whoever thought that tattoos could possibly have any negative impact on the eye? But, according to a research from the John Hopkins School Of Medicine, such a thing is not only possible, the link is fast being established as people with black-ink tattoo art on their skin…

FACTS ABOUT PINK EYE (CONJUNCTIVITIS) If you are a parent or a teacher, you are well aware of the scrouge of Pink Eye Conjunctivitis in a classroom. Once a child gets it, others go down like dominoes with the infection. This contagion of inflamed eyes is an enthusiastic traveler, spreading quickly through direct contact with…

SMOKING HABITS THAT CAN HARM YOUR EYES Lungs and heart are not the only essential organs that get compromised by the habit of smoking. With many years of smoking, vision also begins to degenerate, but because blindness isn’t life-threatening, this worrisome fact is often overlooked when putting out statutory warnings against smoking. There are 4,700…

HOW TO PROPERLY OPEN A BOTTLE OF CHAMPAGNE It’s something you’d expect Tom to do in a Tom And Jerry cartoon. Ask 900,000 Britishers, however, and they will tell you that getting punched in the eye by a champagne cork is no funny matter. They should know because 12% of UK’s entire population suffers from…