Articles for category Eye Problems & Diseases
If you suffer an eye injury, what should you do? For most injuries, going to the emergency room or
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Look at the wall or another blank canvas. Is your vision perfectly clear, or do you notice specks and strings floating in your field of vision? These tiny objects, which seem to dart around as quickly as you can move your eyes to look at them, are floaters.
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Spring is in the air and along with it grass and tree pollens, mold spores and other airborne allergens. It is estimated that more than 35 million Americans suffer from seasonal allergies, and the spring allergy season is particularly brutal here in the south as warm weather days increase tree pollen counts as early as February.
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Sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste –these five senses enable us to explore and enjoy our world. If you had to give one up, which would it be? Most of us would part with any of the others before giving up our sense of sight. However, a recent CDC survey revealed that close to 40 percent of U.S. adults fail to schedule regular eye exams. Doing so puts them at risk for vision loss from undetected eye diseases such as glaucoma.
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Your eyes require tears for moisture and lubrication. Without enough tears, and the water, oils, mucus, antibodies and proteins they contain, your eyes may become dry. Symptoms of dry eyes include pain, sensitivity to light, gritty feeling, itching, redness and blurred vision.
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Whether you call it a twitch, tic or spasm, when your eyelid starts moving without your permission it can be very annoying. We recently came across an excellent article that discusses not only the typical causes of eyelid twitching, but also offers a few remedies. But you can be confident that in most cases this condition is not serious and does not typically indicate that there is a medical problem. And yes, like most conditions these muscle contractions in the eyelids have a name - myokymia.
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