Why are my arms getting shorter?? When reading vision starts to go ..
It usually begins after 40.... Fine print on everyday items like food packages, menus and webpages is getting a bit hard and if only your arms were a bit longer you could hold it far away enough to focus... you might even hand what you are trying to read to your kids and ask them to read it for you instead or maybe you start to wish you bought a bigger phone. This is typically a sign of what's called "presbyopia" or loss of reading vision with age. This happens because your
Dry eye causes watery eye??
Dry eye or a lack of tears is a common condition and becomes more common as you age. For the most part, people complain of logical symptoms- a feeling of dryness, red eyes, sandiness, burning or itchy eyes. However, not many people are aware that dry eye can actually cause watery eyes. You may be wearing the same look of surprise right now that crosses my patients' faces when I inform them of this; that the watering that occurs when in the wind, or watching the TV or computer
Skin cancer...on the eye???
Slip Slop Slap and Sid the Seagull... that was the Sunsmart crusade against skin cancer in the 80s when I was growing up. Nowadays it's slip, slop, slap, seek and slide... slide standing for slide on some sunglasses. Why? Because your eye has skin and you can get skin cancers on your eye as well. Skin cancer..... on the eyeball??? That's usually the reaction I get from my patients when I tell them. Yet I diagnose a new patient with a eye skin cancer or squamous cell carcinoma
Faster Higher Stronger?
Citius, Altius, Fortius or Faster, Higher, Stronger is the Olympic Motto... so how does that relate to laser eye surgery such as LASIK? Well the faster bit does... When I had my laser eye surgery 12 years ago, the lasers operated at a speed of 40Hz. Today's modern lasers operate at more than 10 times that speed at 500Hz and beyond. Why does speed matter? Basically the faster the laser, the more accurate it is. As the laser works to reshape your eye during laser eye surgery, i
