Tag: eyes
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Looking After Your Eye Health: Doing Day-to-Day Tasks
From reading and typing away on our laptops to using our mobile phones and watching TV, the things we do from day-to-day can really affect our eye health. Many of us suffer from tired eyes, dry eyes or eye strain but few of us do very much about it. In the long term, these minor symptoms…
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Back to Work: The Kit that Every Glasses Wearer Needs at the Office
Being back at work in January often means playing catch up after the long break and getting back into the swing of it all. If you’re finding the back-to-the-office ritual tough to handle, the last thing you need is your glasses steaming up, going all wonky and lopsided, or causing you headaches because they don’t…
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British Airways Pilot in Shocking Laser Eye Attack
We all know too well the damage that laser pens can wreak on our eyes. But for one BA co-pilot, things became even more serious when a military strength laser was shone directly into the cockpit. As a result of this laser attack, the individual received major damage to his peepers including burnt retinas. Playing with…
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Beetles Are Able to Grow Special Bifocal Eyes!
Go on, I dare you to say Beetlejuice three times – but before you cower behind the sofa, you might want to peel back your eyes. It turns out that the humble diving beetle has the ability to grow bifocals all by themselves. The complexity of this appears to be mind boggling in its own…
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How to Deal with Dry Eyes
Do you ever get an uncomfortable, itchy feeling in your eyes at the end of a long day? If this happens regularly, then you may be suffering from dry eyes. Eye dryness occurs when the eye doesn’t produce tears properly or when the tears evaporate too quickly. It can range in severity and is caused by many…
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7 Tips to Teach Your Kids Good Eye Care Habits
Looking after our eyes is something that should be considered from a very young age; therefore it’s essential that we teach our little ones all about the best eye care to help them develop healthy habits for the rest of their life. From our ever growing collection of prescription glasses and protective eyewear for kids,…
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Common Eye Health Problems that You Need to Know About
The key to good eye health for the whole family starts with having the right pair of prescription glasses and having good eye health education. Having something go wrong with your eyes (or your child’s eyes) can be a terrifying or worrying experience when you don’t know what the diagnosis is or what the causes…
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Are Smartphones Creating Long Term Problems For Our Eyes?
What is the first thing you do in the morning? Do you pick up your phone to check your email and catch up with the news? An hour or two later when there isn’t much to do, is it likely that you use your phone to surf the Internet or watch something on Netflix? Finally…
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How to Choose Sunglasses for the Winter
I once had a friend called The Fonz. My friends and I first gave him this nickname when we first discovered that he never left the house without his leather jacket and a pair of sunglasses. In fact, he rarely attended an event, day or night, summer or winter, without his trusty Ray Bans. We…