Healthy Eyes
Maintain healthy eyes through proper care and lifestyle habits. These articles cover eye hygiene, nutrition, and preventative measures for lifelong vision.
Can False Eyelashes Damage Your Eyes?
The trend for wearing false eyelashes in everyday life has grown enormously in the last few years, as have hair extensions and acrylic nails. Their constant...
Eye Sight Charts: How Are They Different?
When you have your eyes tested at the optician, you are probably too busy concentrating on reading the letters to take too much notice of the chart. The typi...
How the Eye Works
The anatomy of the human eye and the way it works border on the miraculous. “How does the eye work?” is a formidable question, a detailed answer to which...
How to Look After Your Eyesight
It is important to look after your eyesight to prevent your vision deteriorating and to prevent the development of eye diseases. Your lifestyle, what you eat...
Protecting Your Eyes from UV
It is important to protect your eyes from the sun’s damaging rays. The ultraviolet rays can cause damage to your eyes which could affect your eyesight. The...
Protecting Your Eyes When Playing Sport
Many people wear protective clothing or headgear when playing sport to protect themselves from injury. However we often forget to protect our eyes. Sport is...
Questionnaire: How Well Do You Know Your Eyes?
The eyes are said to be the window to the soul, but how well do you know about this important gateway? Try answering this short set of questions, and check o...
VDUs and Your Eyesight
With the rising number of people using computers at work and at home there has also been an increase in the number of people complaining of eye strain. Altho...
What Does VEGF Do in the Eye?
The sense of sight is very precious because of the things that it enables us to do. It is also fragile. The tissues of the retina, which contains the photore...
What Happens at an Eye Examination?
Eye examinations are not just about whether you need to wear glasses or not, they also provide a useful health check. The optician, also known as an optometr...
What is an Orthoptist and How Can They Help With Eye Problems?
An orthoptist is a member of a team of eye care specialists whose role involves the diagnosis, treatment and assessing potential problems of the eye. What Is...
What is the Blood Retinal Barrier?
The human body is very complex and there are some barriers within it that are more functional than structural. The blood-brain barrier is one example. This i...
What Makes Our Eyes Different Colours
People can have various eye colours; brown is the most common, followed by blue but grey, green, amber and hazel are also common variations. Eye colour origi...
Why Go to the Optician?
At times you've probably wondered what it must be like to be blind or partially sighted, and it's a scary thought. Your eyes are the vital instruments that s...