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World Optometry Day: Care For Your Vision
Optometry is essential because by providing regular eye exams, optometrists can detect early signs of eye issues and provide timely treatment to prevent them from progressing. Furthermore, optometry also can help us improve the overall quality of life. Good vision is crucial for everyday activities like driving, reading, and socializing, and well-timed optometry ensures the healthy vision of all the people. In a word, regular optometry is beneficial to individuals in a general way and appointments with optometrists are always recommendable.
By Zoomax-Living with Low Vision3 years ago in Humans
World Optometry Day: Optometry and Vision Care
What do you usually do when feeling uncomfortable in the eyes? Will you close your eyes briefly to rest them, or use the eye drops yourself? A suggestion often ignored is to make an appointment with your optometrist. On March 23rd, as in the World Optometry Day, we attempt to raise awareness of the optometry and vision care, and also remind people to attach importance to optometry. This article explains how optometry works, what optometrists do, the importance of optometry, and how to care for your vision, in order to help you learn more about optometry.
By Zoomax-Living with Low Vision3 years ago in Humans
What Might The Visually Impaired Seniors Experience?
Getting old is a natural process for all human beings. It’s irresistible and inevitable. Some people naturally accept aging, while others may be afraid of it. Getting old is a long-term process and it takes time. We will notice the body is no longer strong as before, and some age-related diseases appear gradually. Yet it’s not always negative to become elderly. With time going by, our knowledge, minds, and horizons widen as well. Among several impacts getting old brings, we particularly discuss the influences on seniors with low vision, and try to offer suitable activities and tips for them in this article.
By Zoomax-Living with Low Vision3 years ago in Humans
5 Tips for the Visually Impaired Seniors
Getting old is a natural process for all human beings. It’s irresistible and inevitable. Some people naturally accept aging, while others may be afraid of it. Getting old is a long-term process and it takes time. We will notice the body is no longer strong as before, and some age-related diseases appear gradually. Yet it’s not always negative to become elderly. With time going by, our knowledge, minds, and horizons widen as well. Among several impacts getting old brings, we particularly discuss the influences on seniors with low vision, and try to offer suitable activities and tips for them in this article.
By Zoomax-Living with Low Vision3 years ago in Humans
What are the causes and treatments of dry eye syndrome?
Dry eye syndrome, it’s also known as dysfunctional tear syndrome. The basic explanation of it is that dry eye syndrome happens when the eyes are not able to produce adequate tears to lubricate the eyes. The disease has a great impact on patient’s vision and their quality of life. According to the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), in 2018, there are around 20 million people in the United States who have dry eye disease, and the quantity is still increasing gradually.
By Zoomax-Living with Low Vision3 years ago in Humans
How to Prevent Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD)?
AMD mainly influences a small area of the retina, which is also called the macula. When the cells in the macula are damaged, a series of macular degeneration symptoms will follow. In the beginning, people may find it hard to see the text clearly, and the situation won’t be improved even with the glasses. Then it’s getting blurred in the central area of the vision, and the straight lines seem to become curved.
By Zoomax-Living with Low Vision3 years ago in Humans
What are the symptoms, treatments, and preventions of eye strain?
What Are The Symptoms Of Eye Strain? Blurred vision Dry eyes Watery eyes Itchy eyes Red eyes Headache Hard to keep your eyes open Pain or strain in neck, shoulder or back Sensitivity to light
By Zoomax-Living with Low Vision3 years ago in Humans
Eye Strain? It’s Time to Take Good Care of Your Eye
Do you use phones, and computers, watch TV, or work indoors every day? Is there a moment you feel an eye strain strongly and just need to close your eyes for a break? If your answer is all "yes", this article will be helpful for you to understand more about eye strain and how to protect your eyes. Additionally, people with low vision conditions will get tips for avoiding eye strain as well.
By Zoomax-Living with Low Vision3 years ago in Humans
The life of my mother with AMD
Age-related macular degeneration, also known as AMD, is a common eye disease that happens among people over 50 and would lead to the loss of vision. To raise the attention to the disease and the vision loss issues, February has been defined as AMD and Vision Loss Awareness Month. Recently, Zoomax received feedback from a user, telling about his mother’s story with age-related macular degeneration, which shall bring huge inspiration to everyone with AMD.
By Zoomax-Living with Low Vision3 years ago in Humans
How Does Dry Eye Syndrome Affect Your Life?
Feeling like often overusing your eyes? Spending a long time staring at the digital screens? Dry, itchy, red, sensitive to the lights? If the answers are “yes”, you may be experiencing dry eye syndrome. Most people seem to understand dry eyes as an ocular manifestation. However, it can be a kind of eye disease as well. Through this article, we are going to know more about dry eye syndrome.
By Zoomax-Living with Low Vision3 years ago in Humans
