How to Take Care of Your Contact Lenses

by Sunny on February 22, 2012

As a contact wearer myself, I’ll go ahead and plead guilty to many of these offenses. Yes, there have been nights I’ve fallen asleep in my contact lenses. Nor do I replace my lenses on the exact day they should be replaced every month (I probably shouldn’t even be admitting this. My optometrist would be [...]

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Contact Lenses and Sunglasses

by Sunny on February 15, 2012

Contacts and sunglasses are like two peas in a pod. As a contact lens wearer, your eyes should be in a committed relationship with sunglasses when you’re outdoors. There’s just no excuse. After all, though a few contact lenses do protect against UV-Ray exposure, the rest of your eye and surrounding eye area need protection, [...]

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The Twitch of the Eye: What Causes Eye Twitching

February 8, 2012

In some cultures, it’s considered good luck. But typically to the person suffering from it, it’s just considered annoying. The irritating, uncontrollable… eye twitch.   A villain we all know, some all too well. Could you imagine sitting in a job interview for a company you really want to work for? And as you sit [...]

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Hard Contacts vs. Soft Contacts

February 1, 2012

The Difference Between Hard Contact Lenses and Soft Contact Lenses   Personally, I often wondered the difference between hard contacts and soft contact lenses. I always just reduced it down to personal preference. But that’s far from the truth. As a soft contact lens wearer myself, the idea of wearing semi-rigid permeable lenses (RGPs) – [...]

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Eye Allergies

January 25, 2012

Now that the holidays have passed, it’s beginning to look a lot like - allergy season. With the blossoming flowers and reemerging leaves, allergies too are returning. And a majority of allergies affect the eyes and cause severe discomfort. However, when you have an allergic reaction, you’ve got to remember it’s your eyes response to something [...]

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Cataracts

January 18, 2012

What is Cataracts? Cataracts is a clouding that develops slowly and with time interferes with your vision. It’s described as looking through a fogged up glass. Cataracts make it difficult to read, drive, and make seeing, especially difficult in low lighting conditions. It develops almost in an envelope, behind your iris (the colored part). Early [...]

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Veins on Your Eyes

January 11, 2012

Remember those nights in college when you stayed up all night (reason unknown) and the next morning you woke up looking like you cried for 12 hours straight? Your eyes red and a web of veins. Your eyes just look uncomfortable! But they may not be. Enlarged red veins on the whites of your eyes [...]

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Wearing Contacts While Swimming

January 4, 2012

I am aware that the subject of this post will probably raise a few eyebrows, considering we are still in the wintry months of January. However, as someone who has worn contacts since I was 13 and now writes for an optical blog, I’ve been searching through the many questions I’ve stored away over the [...]

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Those Brown Spots on Your Eyes…

December 28, 2011

If you don’t have them, you’ve seen them. You’re looking someone right in the eye, and just there, you notice it: a little brown spot(s) on the white of their eye. Now, if it isn’t your eye, you may not say anything about. And I don’t blame you. (Some things are like asking a woman [...]

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Traveling with Contact Lenses

December 21, 2011

The holiday season is among us and for most of us that means there’s a good bit of traveling in our very near future. As a contact wearer myself, I used to think it was a hassle traveling with contact lenses. Every time I took an early flight out, I dreaded popping contact lenses into [...]

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