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Freshlook Colorblends have introduced three exciting new colors to their range this April and they are available from AC Lens where you buy Contact Lenses For Less!
The colors are Gemstone Green, Brilliant Blue, and Sterling Grey.
These new colors expand the range of the already beautiful color contacts available to enhance the look of your eyes.
Vision correction using eye surgery has become quite common in the past few years with more and more people opting to undergo the procedure in order to reduce or eliminate the need for wearing glasses or contact lenses.
Others may require eye surgery for other problems including cataracts and glaucoma.
Refractive Surgical Procedures
Refractive surgical procedures are available which correct certain eye problems by changing the focus of the eye.
LASIK Surgery
Laser Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis or LASIK surgery is a procedure that is used to permanently change the shape of the cornea of the eye. It is one of the more popular methods available today. Read more>>>
Epi-LASIK
Epithelial Laser Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis (Epi-LASIK) is a procedure that separates the thin top layer of the cornea. It has an advantage over LASIK surgery in that there are no sharp blades involved. Read more>>>
ALK
Automated Lamellar Keratoplasty (ALK) is a procedure used to correct myopia.
PRK
Photorefractive Keractectomy (PRK) is a procedure which involves removing tissue from the eyes using an beam of light.
Cataract
Cataract surgery involves removing the cloudy lens from the eye. The procedure involves a micro incision and the insertion of an intraocular lens implant. Read more>>>
Glaucoma
The surgical treatment for glaucoma can involve laser or regular surgical techniques which involves making a cut in the eye to relieve the intraocular pressure. Read more>>>
Common causes of eye twitching
Most of us have experienced it; after a long day of working at the computer or hitting the books, one eye or the other starts to twitch. What causes annoying eye twitching, and what can you do about it?
The vast majority of twitches are caused by a minor spasm in the muscles of the eyelid. Like most spasms, they are caused by muscle fatigue. Fatigue in the muscles around the eyelid can be caused by high levels of stress, sleepiness, bright lights, squinting for long periods of time, and eye strain from reading in dim light or looking at a computer screen for long periods of time.
In rare cases, twitches in the eye can be caused by physical, psychological, or neurological problems, such as epilepsy or Tourette’s syndrome.
Treatment for eye twitching
In order to relax these eye muscles and ease the twitching, you can apply a warm or a cool compress to the affected eyes, take a long, soothing bath to ease stress, or use eye drops. A long nap or a good night’s sleep will often help stop twitching as well.
To avoid eye twitches to begin with, take frequent breaks while reading or working at the computer. Use these breaks to look off into the distance to change the focus of your eyes. Ensure that you always have plenty of good light in your work area.
If you suspect that your eye twitches are a result of stress, try taking a brisk walk in your lunch hour, or exercise in place for a few minutes during your reading breaks. Soothing music, stretches in your chair, and aromatherapy are other ways to combat stress while working or studying.
Severe cases can be treated by medication, Botox injections, or even surgery.
Important
If your eye twitches are violent or do not subside in a reasonable period of time, you should discuss this with your doctor.
What are Styes and What You Can do About Them?
If you are experiencing a painful red swelling on the edge of your eyelid, the chances are that you are the victim of a sty. Luckily, while styes can be uncomfortable or even outright painful, they are not a danger to your eye or to your eyesight.
Simply put, a sty is a pimple that forms on your eyelid. Just as pimples are often caused by inflammation of the oil glands around the hair follicles on your skin, styes are caused by inflammation of the glands surrounding the follicles of your eyelashes. And just like pimples, they usually come to a head, drain, and disappear in just a few days.
Styes can only be passed from person to person through direct contact. To lower the risk of transmitting a sty, do not share your washcloths or towels with others.
In most cases, styes will disappear quickly without any intervention. To ease pain and to speed the disappearance of a sty, you can lay a moist, warm compress such as a hot washcloth over the affected eye. Leave the compress on your eye for ten to fifteen minutes at a time to help it drain more quickly. Under no circumstances should you attempt to “pop” a sty.
If you wear contact lenses try switching to glasses for the time being to help reduce the inflammation.
If your sty does not disappear within two weeks, or if it is causing irritation by rubbing against your eye, you may need to have it professionally drained. Consult with your doctor for options.
If you experience this problem frequently, your doctor can also give you an antibacterial ointment that will kill the staphylococcal bacteria before it can inflame the glands of your eyes and form a sty
Glaucoma is a very serious condition that is actually a bunch of diseases working together that cause damage to the optic nerve. The problem with this condition is that there may not be any symptoms and damage may be done before it is diagnosed.
Doctors usually start with treatments that are related to medications as well as physical therapy, but if these things are not successful glaucoma surgery is called for. Most doctors will put off surgery for as long as possible, because though it has become a relatively routine procedure, most doctors are hesitant to perform surgery on the eyes unless all other therapies have failed or there is an emergency that requires the surgery.
There are two types of glaucoma eye surgery, one that uses a laser and one that requires traditional surgery:
1. The laser glaucoma surgery is performed by aiming a laser light at the eye’s trabecular meshwork to open up the blockages in this meshwork to increase the flow of aqueous fluid from the eye.
2. The traditional surgery is commonly called filtering microsurgery. This requires that a hole be made to allow excess fluids to drain from the eye. Draining the fluid from the eye will reduce the pressure in the eye, which is the purpose of the surgery.
Laser surgery is becoming more common than the traditional incision type eye surgery
There are actually four types of laser surgeries known as:
Traditional surgery is still used for patients, but laser is preferred as patients typically respond and heal better to it. Traditional surgeries will be used when medication and laser procedures have failed.
There are risks associated with glaucoma surgery, but they are not greater than the risk of leaving the eye untreated. Glaucoma affects the optic nerve, eventually causing blindness if treatment is not sought. Glaucoma surgery has become much easier and more effective over the last several years, making it a viable option for more and more people.
Over the past decade there’s been an explosion of contact lens styles and types on the market. Extended wear contact lenses and disposable contact lenses are the most popular, but daily contact lenses are still a popular option for those who can’t wear extended wear lenses for one reason or another.
What’s the difference between extended wear and daily contact lenses? Both types of lens are soft lenses, made of gas permeable silicon. Thin and light, they’re designed to float on top of the cornea and move with the pupil as you move your eyes. Unlike yesteryear’s rigid plastic counterparts, soft contact lenses have virtually no risk of scratching the cornea. In addition, they are designed in a material that lets oxygen pass through the lens to reach the surface of your eye. This gas permeability is vital to your eye health. Oxygen helps clear away bacteria that can collect behind the lens and grow there, causing eye infections.
Extended wear lenses are specifically designed with higher water content in the silicon, making them comfortable and suitable for wearing for as long as a month. Daily wear lenses are designed to be removed every day, and aren’t suitable for wearing while sleeping. Daily lenses may be disposable, or they may be RGP (rigid gas permeable) lenses that are designed to be removed and cleaned each night. They may also be more conventional soft contact lenses that can be worn repeatedly as long as they’re properly cleaned and disinfected.
Daily contact lenses may be a good choice for a person with an active lifestyle that requires removing and replacing contact lenses after swimming for instance. They’re also an option for you if you’ve been told that you’re a poor candidate for extended wear contacts because of a history of eye infections, or because of dry eyes.
Daily lenses are available in a wide range of prescription strengths and sizes. You’ll also find daily lenses in colored styles if you want to make a fashion statement or in bifocal prescriptions if your eyes just aren’t what they used to be. Your doctor can help you decide whether daily contact lenses are a good choice for you.
