A Word of Caution on Costume Contacts
Halloween is our favorite spooky time of year, but we need to talk about the potential dangers of costume contact lenses.
Vision Tips
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Truly Scary Stories About Halloween Costume Or Colored Contact Lenses
You’re planning to go all out for Halloween this year, with not only a costume but face paint, hair gel, and accessories to boot. In fact, you may even be thinking about taking things up a notch by adding colored contacts to enhance the creepiness effect. Costume or colored contact lenses come in all different […]
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Makeup and Eye Safety
Cosmetics have come a long way from the toxic powders used in the Renaissance and Victorian eras.
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Protecting Your Eyesight Over The Years
As we get older, our bodies don’t function as well as they used to, and that includes our eyes.
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Why Teens & Young Adults Who Wear Contacts Should Switch To Daily Lenses
“Ulcers” and “eyes”—those aren’t two words you ever want to hear used in the same sentence. Yet people who wear their contact lenses for too long risk that and more. Who’s especially prone? Those teens and young adults whose late nights and chaotic schedules give them more than the usual temptation to nod off without […]
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2 Stories Of How The Right Vision Test Can Change A Child’s World
In the blog post Is Your Child Struggling In School? It Could Be Vision Related Rather Than A Learning Problem, we took a look at how undiagnosed vision problems in children can all too often be misdiagnosed as learning disabilities or behavioral problems. In fact, 1 out of 4 children struggle with reading and learning […]
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Animal Kingdom Eyesight Olympics
Our world is filled with a staggering array of animal life, and today we’d like to take a closer look at some of the best eyes nature has to offer.
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Is Your Child Struggling In School? It Could Be Vision Related Rather Than A Learning Problem
There are 2 things that optometrists wish they could yell from the mountaintops for all parents of young school age children to hear: Vision screenings at schools and a pediatrician’s office aren’t sufficient to catch more subtle vision issues that make it more difficult for a child to learn. These common vision screenings too often […]
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Kids And Comprehensive Eye Exams
Most of us remember going to the school nurse as a child, covering one eye at a time, and reading off lines from the big E chart to find out if we needed glasses.
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Convincing Your Child That Glasses Rule
Wearing glasses for the first time can be a difficult adjustment for any child.