COMMIT TO THE RECOVERY TIME, OR DON’T GET LASIK AT ALL If you’re an athlete, or play a lot of any kind of sport, `elective’ surgery is a decision you cannot take lightly. Too much depends on optimal health and fitness for you to go and mess it all up with an operation...
Top 10 American Cities That are Bad for The Eyes
AMERICAN CITIES THAT MAY HARM YOUR EYES Geography and climate have such an enormous impact on eye health. Some of the most scenic places in United States – cities that look pristine, fresh and clean all year round -- can leave you with allergies, irritations and all...
Thinking of Wearing Contact Lenses While on The Pill? Bad Idea!
CORRELATION BETWEEN CONTACT LENSES AND BIRTH CONTROL PILLS Whoever thought there could be a correlation between contact lenses and your birth control pills? But this correlation certainly exists – so much so that some oral contraceptive manufacturers are especially...
Eeek!!! Do You Have `Eye Mites’ Living And Raising A Family In Your Eyelashes?
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...
90% Of Work-Related Eye Injuries Are Avoidable: What Are you Doing To Stay Safe?
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...
Is Reading While Lying Down Bad for The Eyes?
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...
Did You Know That Contact Lens Wearers Carry An Extra Bad Bacteria In Their Eyes?
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...
Spend Your Tax Refund On This 1 Thing That Is Guaranteed To Change Your Life
WHERE TO SPEND YOUR TAX REFUND Approximately 79 percent of Americans are looking forward to the tax refund season, as they’re expecting a pleasant little surprise from the IRS. Last year, the average payout was 2,860 dollars, which may not sound like a king’s ransom,...
Forget Celebrities – Even Star Wars Droid C-3PO Had To Have LASIK Surgery!
PERSON BEHIND DROID C-3PO GOT HIS LASIK SURGERY What can be a more ringing endorsement for LASIK than the fact that even an autonomous programmable machine like Star War’s C-3PO, with his outstanding celluloid representation of robotics and fluency in over 6 million...
Top 10 American Cities That Promote Good Eye Health
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...