Are you fed up using certain remedies or eye drops to combat dry eye syndrome? Well, the usual suspects such as dust, allergies, weather conditions, or even air pollution could be to blame. But do you know that there can be another reason? Yes! It is your age. The...
Have you ever noticed any changes in your vision in the past couple of years? The older we get, the more important it is for us to be on the watch for symptoms of age-related vision loss. As your partners in lifelong healthy eyesight, we at Healing the Eye want to be...
None of us is born with a developed vision. It takes some time for the right development of our eyes to complete growing, and also, it takes time to learn how to use them. As parents, it is important to understand how eyesight develops so that we can encourage...
An autoimmune disorder is a disorder that causes the immune system to confuse healthy cells for dangerous pathogens and assault them. Many autoimmune disorders impact the health and function of the eyes. It’s important to know about these effects if you or...
An estimated 60 percent of kids with learning difficulties have undiagnosed vision problems, and 80 percent of learning is visual. It places these kids at a serious disadvantage in their education and their social development. So what can we do to make sure this does...
One of the most necessary things we can do to keep our quality of life would be to safeguard our vision. Vision loss increases with age, and one in every six adults copes using a sight-threatening eye issue. A number of the leading causes of blindness and low vision...
It’s easy to assume that being colorblind means living in black-and-white movie time, but that is not how it works at the majority of cases. How Genetics Affects Your Color Vision? A recessive gene located on the X chromosome is the principal culprit behind most...
Virtually everyone over the age of 65 may experience a reduced elasticity of the lenses of the eyes — a condition known as presbyopia. Those people lucky enough to have perfect eyesight until that era will only require reading glasses to help with up-close...
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Email | TuneIn | RSS | MoreWelcome to Healthy Vision which was broadcasted live from Jamaica during a very important eye surgical mission to this country. We trained 4 surgeons on...
Do you recall in old animations if your character would see a plate of food and his eyes would bulge out like footballs? That pointed cone shape of the eye in such scenes isn’t much different from the consequences of keratoconus, a vision disorder where the...