Binocular Vision Dysfunction: When Your Eyes Don’t Work Together
By the time most people hear the words binocular vision dysfunction, they’ve been round the loop a few times. A GP visit. Possibly a scan. A migraine script that took the edge off without ever stopping it. Two or three eye tests that came back perfectly normal, which somehow felt like the least reassuring result […]
Chalazion: Causes, Treatment and How It Differs From a Stye
The lump turned up about three weeks ago. You assumed it was a stye, held a warm washer over it morning and night and waited for it to come to a head. It never did. It also never really hurt. It just sat there, firm and quietly stubborn, a little higher up the lid than […]
Eye Floaters: What They Are, What Causes Them and When to See an Optometrist
Eye floaters are extremely common. Most people develop them at some point, especially as they get older. But they barely notice them until a little speck or squiggle drifts across a blank wall or a bright sky, then disappears the moment they try to look straight at it. For most of us, that’s the entire […]
Blepharitis: Symptoms, Causes and How to Treat Inflamed Eyelids
Blepharitis is one of the more common reasons people end up in the optometry chair with red, crusty eyelids, and most have never heard the word before we say it out loud. It’s not dangerous. But it is persistent: calm a flare-up down and there’s a good chance another one shows up a few months […]
Pain Behind the Eye: Common Causes and When to Worry
It usually starts as a dull ache behind one eye by mid-afternoon. Maybe it flares into a sharp stab when you look up from your desk or settles into a throbbing that tracks with your pulse. Pain behind the eye is one of the most common complaints we hear about, and it sends a lot […]
Keratoconus Symptoms: The Warning Signs Most People Miss
You get new glasses. Six months later, they’re not quite right anymore. Another test, another prescription and still that faint smearing around headlights at night that never fully goes away. If that pattern sounds familiar, it’s worth knowing about keratoconus, a corneal condition that often hides behind years of “just another prescription change”. Keratoconus affects […]
Bloodshot Eyes: Causes, Remedies and When to Worry
You glance in the mirror after a late night or a long day at the screen, and the whites of your eyes are streaked with red. It can look alarming, but bloodshot eyes usually feel worse than they look and clear up on their own. Bloodshot eyes happen when the tiny blood vessels across the […]
Watery Eyes: Causes, Treatments and When to Worry
Your eyes well up when you cut onions or walk into a cold wind, and that makes sense. It’s the watering with no obvious trigger that tends to worry people: eyes that stream while you read, water up the moment you wake or blur your vision for no clear reason. Watery eyes, known medically as […]
Amsler Grid: How to Use This Simple Daily Vision Test
Most people never think about their central vision until it starts to slip. The tricky part is that it can slip so slowly you barely notice. Your brain quietly fills in the gaps, one eye covers for the other and the change hides in plain sight. That is exactly the problem an Amsler grid is […]
Are Styes Contagious? What You Need to Know
You wake up and notice a red, tender lump on your eyelid. Sound familiar? Eye styes are more common than you’d think, and one of the first things people want to know is: are styes contagious? The short answer is no, not in the way a cold or pink eye is. But the full picture […]