How To Maximize Your Vision Using Lighting

Studies have shown that the quality and type of lighting can have a significant impact on our health and comfort.

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Elderly People Require Three Times As Much Light As Young People For Visual Clarity

As the visual system ages, the range of distances over which focus can be achieved is diminished, the amount of light reaching the retina is reduced, more of the light entering the eye is scattered, and the color of the light is altered by preferential absorption of short wavelengths.

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Relating Headaches With Eyestrain

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Eyestrain and headaches are also among the most common complaints of patients visiting the optometrist. Asthenopia is a synonym for eyestrain and it involves any feeling of fatigue, discomfort or pain localized in or near the eyes or thought to be associated with the use of the eyes; oftentimes reported by patients as headache, especially when the ache is localized near the eyes or is thought to be caused by the use of the eyes.

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Safe Driving Requires Good Vision

Vision is the one human sense that is absolutely essential for safe driving.  Although other senses relay important, but somewhat less essential, information to a driver, so that the appreciation of a situation is much improved, it is estimated that up to 90 percent of the information received is visual.

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How To Take Good Care of Your Eyes

I was attending to a patient with computer vision syndrome and after refracting her, I found out that she has refractive error (hyperopia) which was the cause of her computer vision complaints.

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The Wonders of Tears

The lacrimination in the eyes secretes and produces tears which we call crying. Strong emotions such as sorrow, elation, awe and pleasure, as well as irritation of the eyes, laughing, and yawning may lead to an increased production of tears, or crying. You may only think of tears as those salty drops that fall from your eyes when you cry.

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