Many infants suffer from eye problems. It is quite common. Here is a guide to six eye problems that new parents might face with their babies. 1) Clogged Tear Duct My daughter was born with a clogged tear duct. From the first day she had matted tears in her eye lashes and in the corner ...
Silversun Pickups is a 4 piece band from Los Angeles, California. They have produced some of the most original music I’ve ever heard and because of that they are one of my favorite bands. Below is a list of my Top 10 favorite songs by them, in no particular order. 1. Little Lover’s So Polite ...
Amblyopia (often referred to as “lazy eye”) is a condition where one eye has greatly reduced vision compared to the other eye. This can be caused by many things, but it can often be corrected in childhood. After that, it’s much more difficult to correct. If not treated, the lazy eye will in effect, become ...
The day the Pediatric Ophthalmologist told me that my daughter needed her eye patched was not a good day. Having a child with autism, I could not imagine keeping any kind of bandage on her including an eye patch. What was most distressing is that we would be patching her ‘good’ eye to make her ...
Those who require eye patch therapy for reasons such as amblyopia, lazy eye, or a host of other eye conditions want the best eye patches available. Those undergoing eye patch therapy are often required to wear an eye patch for a number of hours each day. Eye patches that don’t irritate the skin upon removal, ...
Lazy eye is a common eye condition that many people have. According to Gary Markowitz, MD, “When eyes are misaligned or are not looking at the same place at the same time, it is a condition called strabismus, commonly referred to as “lazy eye.” I have a friend who has a lazy eye. One eye ...
If you or your husband is extremely near-sighted or far-sighted, the chances are very high that your child will be too. The child will probably need glasses by the time he or she is in middle school. The child may not know that he has vision problems since he probably don’t know the difference between ...
It’s one a handful of physical disorders named after a flower. This very rare eye syndrome is congenital. It’s the result of a malformation of the optic nerve head that resembles the morning glory. This malformation causes a posterior displacement of the optic disc in a funnel-shaped space surrounded by a raised pigment ring, according ...
Glasses and contact lenses do their work in the same way. Essentially, glasses, binoculars, and telescopes have a lot in common. They all work by stacking lenses at a specific distance from each other to refract or bend light to change how the image reflecting or generating the light is perceived. Glasses are designed to ...
I have lived my entire life with an eye disorder called “Amblyopia”. As a young child, I wore a black patch over my right eye in order to help restore vision in my “lazy” left eye. My siblings endured the same frustrating “pirate patch” remedy, which did not work for any of us. There is ...
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