Eye Color Facts & Choosing Specs that Enhance Eye Color

Have you ever thought about choosing a frame color for your eyeglasses according to beauty guidelines for eye makeup?  Whether you’re male or female, choosing your frames based on your eye color is a sensible yet stylish approach to framing your peepers.  Here are a few facts about eye colors and some color-coded guidelines for helping in choosing your next frames.

Brown Eyes

Brown eyes are most common in regions where there is greater year-around exposure to the sun.  In a survey by CyberPulse linking eye color to personality...

5 Modern Ophthalmic Instruments

The field of ophthalmology today uses some of the most high-tech pieces of medical equipment on the market. The development of sophisticated laser and digital imaging technology has made the job of optic surgeons easier and has led to safer and more effective eye treatment methods. The following five ophthalmic instruments are among the most advanced and commonly used instruments in the field of ophthalmology.

Retinal Camera

The retinal camera, or fundus camera, is a highly specialized, low-power microscope equipped with a camera and designed to take pictures of...

Discovery of a new protein has been linked to vision loss

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Eyeglasses: Function and Fashion

Eyeglasses have come a long way from having only a corrective purpose, paying no attention to style to combining practicality and fashion. Available in a variety of styles, shapes, sizes and colors, prescription glasses can help one construe their personal image.

The progress made in the eyewear industry has made it possible for people to correct their vision disorders in elegant and fashionable ways with just about all the top designer fashion brands jumping in and playing a roll.

The introduction of lightweight frames and lenses have enabled...

Glaucoma – Don’t turn a blind eye to the disease!

Glaucoma is categorised as a disorder that affects the function of the eye. The characteristics of Glaucoma produce specific signs and symptoms, and ultimately share a single common feature, progressive optic neuropathy (Damage to the optic nerve).  All manifestations of Glaucoma can result in progressive loss of vision if untreated, or undetected, eventually this can be potentially blinding.

Incorporating the Glaucoma’s as a group of diseases, they are now the leading source of visual morbidity, affecting more than 60 million people throughout the world.  What’s more, around 8.4...

How to brighten your SAD day with yellow glasses

Seasonal Affective Disorder, also known as SAD, is a type of depression that affects thousands of people each winter. It strikes between the months of September and April, with most sufferers feeling the worst effects in December, January and February as a result of the lack of sunlight and shorter days.

For many people, SAD is a serious condition that affects their day-to-day lives and requires medical treatment. For many others, seasonal affective disorder is less serious but still causes many problems.

SAD can be treated in various ways....

Visual symptoms you should never ignore

The standard advice given to us by our optician is to get our eyes tested every 2 years, but just how seriously do most of us take this recommendation? Just like having regular dentist appointments, people often become complacent about such health checks, justifying it by saying ‘my vision is fine’ etc. The problem with statements like this is that often your vision changes so slowly, you wouldn’t actually realise it and you could consequently be driving below the legal visual driving requirements. If you can’t be convinced to...