Eye 101
I often find educating my patients about the basic structure of the eye is very useful to help them understand their eye conditions. Basically the eye is like a camera. Cameras have typically two lenses to focus light. The front lens of the eye (called the cornea) has a fixed power and is similar to the lens in the front of a camera which is covered by the lens cap. The inside lens of the eye (called the lens) is like the zooming lens of the camera. This allows you to have a
When something gets in your eye.. and it's not just smoke
It happens to all of us; you are walking along, having your coffee, checking out your Facebook feed and then ow ow ow, what's that pain in my eye? You wipe at it, dig a bit with your finger, your eye tears up a bit and usually the pain goes. This means that it was probably just an eyelash or just a bit of grit or some airborne particle which was quite small. But occasionally it doesn't go away... The first thing you can try is to flush it away with sterile eyewash you can bu
