The Importance of Sight…….

Click on the link below to view a great video that drives home the message about the most important of our five senses…….

http://www.healthysightforlife.com/

FACTS ABOUT EYES AND VISION……

In keeping with the spirit of  National Save Your Vision Month, we are sharing some interesting facts about eyes and vision……..

Did you know that:

• You can have 20/20 eyesight but still have a visual problem which prevents you from understanding what you see?
• That vision is learned and continues to develop from birth to adulthood?
• That blinking helps to protect our eyes by keeping them moist, and that when we blink, the eyelids spread tears across the eye surface?
• That the most active muscles in the human body are our eye muscles?
• That the most eye injuries are caused by baseball, followed by basketball, water sports and racquet sports?
• That reading in dim light can make your eyes feel tired, but is not physically harmful to your eyes?
• That you can’t use your eyes too much?  They won’t wear out!
• That poorly fit contact lenses can be harmful to your cornea?  Be sure to have regular yearly  eye examinations, especially if you wear contact lenses.
• That their are several, asymptomatic eye diseases that can begin prior to age 40, (glaucoma, for example)
• That cataracts cannot be removed with a laser?
• That, according to recent studies, Vision problems affect one in 20 preschoolers and one in four school age children?
• That almost 80% of pre-school age children never get an eye exam?
• That 25% of  junior high school aged children can’t read the board because of nearsightedness (myopia)?
• That 3.3 million Americans age 40 and older are blind or have low vision, and this number is expected to increase to 5.5 million by 2020 as the population ages?
• That according to the National Eye Institute, glaucoma is almost three times as common in African-Americans as in Caucasians?  Hispanics age 65 and older are also at increased risk of glaucoma.
• That Age Related Macular Degeneration is a leading cause of blindness in people age 50 and over?

Dry Eye Questionnaire

Do you think you have  Chronic Dry Eye?  Take the Chronic Dry Eye Test….

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