HAPPY HOLI….WITH GLEAMING EYES

Infection in eye due to Holi:

 Synthetic colours used in Holi contain heavy metals like lead, which causes pink eye, chemical burn, corneal abrasion or blunt eye injury.

 Avoid water balloons as it can cause blunt eye injury or even head injury. The shining mica particles in colours can cause damage to the cornea.

Avoid wearing contact lenses as colour may get trapped between lenses resulting in infection. Contact lenses may also absorb some of the harmful chemicals, aggravating the problem due to continued exposure.

Eye care during Holi:

1. Protect your eyes with sunglass or protective eye wear during Holi

2. Tie your hair or use a cap to prevent colour dripping in the eyes.

3. Never rub your eyes if colour gets into them as it may cause irritation or vision loss

4. Apply thick layer of coconut oil around eyes, so that colour can be removed easily without any harm to eyes.

5. While playing request the person to not to smear the colours near eyes.

Keep water guns away from the face: Water guns and pichkaris, if aimed directly at the face, hold the potential to cause serious damage to the eyes. Wearing protective eye wear while playing with water guns is also highly recommended

Tips to play safe Holi

1. Avoid using toxic colour on children

2. While washing off the colour, use lukewarm water and keep your eyes tightly closed.

3. Try avoiding dark colours as they stick to the skin and harder to remove

4. Apply cream or oil before venturing out for Holi

5. Oil and cover your hair to protect them from colours

6. Keep anti allergic tablets handy. Avoid playing Holi if you are prone to skin allergies

7. Avoid running on wet floors.

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Reading Glasses (Presbyopia)

As one reaches late thirties or early forties, you experience difficulty in reading caller’s name, fine prints, playing on smart phones, reading menu cards or price tags. You are finding it hard to recognize the word without keeping the book far from your eyes and your eyes are feeling strained while reading.  It is time to go and consult your eye doctor. These symptoms are of Presbyopia.

As you grow old, you have difficulty in reading, writing and doing your regular work, which earlier you used to do without even noticing. When you hold the object or book near your eyes then you cannot focus on the object or the letters clearly. The difficulty in focusing is the main symptom of Presbyopia. The lens part of the eyes looses flexibility with growing age and it become less elastic day by day. The muscles holding the lens also become loose and thus the eyes find it difficult to focus on various things. This condition can be easily diagnosed as the affected person starts observing things and objects by holding them very far from the eyes in an attempt to focus well on the things.

Treatment for Presbyopia

The common treatment for Presbyopia includes the use of reading glasses, progressive additional lenses, contact lenses and bifocals.

If you are mainly looking for solution so that you can read your favorite books without finding reading an arduous task then the reading glasses are the most suitable option for you. These glasses you are supposed to wear only while reading and writing. You can also use these glasses while working on computers.

The bifocal reading glasses are good for you if along with Presbyopia you also have myopia, Hyperopia and astigmatism. These glasses have two focal points. The upper half part is to help with nearsightedness or farsightedness and the lower half part is to cope with Presbyopia.

The bifocals can also be further improved with the help of progressive additional lenses. The progressive additional lenses will make sure that the transition between the two focal points is gradual rather than sharper. These glasses are more suitable for intermediate distances such as computers, ipad, files, laptops, smart phones etc.

If you do not like the concept of wearing eyeglasses then you can also wear contact lenses. Contact lenses are also popular alternative to cure the vision problems associated with Presbyopia. You can also make use of multi-focal contact lenses in case you are suffering from other eye conditions.

A Journey Through the Human Eye: How We See

Amazing facts about our eyes

On the face of it, our eyes are just simple orbs in our head, but the fact is that they’re very complex organs. There are seven main parts in the eye that play a role in transmitting information to the brain, detecting light, and focusing. A problem with any of these parts means a problem with your vision.

Our eyes are very complicated and amazing. They seem pretty simple, but there’s really a lot to know about how they function.

You may think you know them pretty well, but here are some fun facts you may not know about eyes:

1. The average blink lasts for about 1/10th of a second.
2. While it takes some time for most parts of your body to warm up to their full potential, your eyes are on their “A game” 24/7.
3. Eyes heal quickly. With proper care, it only takes about 48 hours for the eye to repair a corneal scratch.
4. Seeing is such a big part of everyday life that it requires about half of the brain to get involved.
5. Newborns don’t produce tears. They make crying sounds, but the tears don’t start flowing until they are about 4-13 weeks old.
6. Around the world, about 39 million people are blind and roughly 6 times that many have some kind of vision impairment.
7. Doctors have yet to find a way to transplant an eyeball. The optic nerve that connects the eye to the brain is too sensitive to reconstruct successfully.
8. The cells in your eye come in different shapes. Rod-shaped cells allow you to see shapes, and cone-shaped cells allow you to see color.
9. You blink about 12 times every minute.
10. Your eyes are about 1 inch across and weigh about 0.25 ounce.
11. Some people are born with two differently colored eyes. This condition is heterochromia.
12. Even if no one in the past few generations of your family had blue or green eyes, these recessive traits can still appear in later generations.
13. Each of your eyes has a small blind spot in the back of the retina where the optic nerve attaches. You don’t notice the hole in your vision because your eyes work together to fill in each other’s blind spot.
14. Out of all the muscles in your body, the muscles that control your eyes are the most active.
15. 80% of vision problems worldwide are avoidable or even curable.

Who knew your eyes could be so amazing and complex? Make sure to give them the attention they deserve by seeing your VSP doctor for a comprehensive eye exam every year.

Chalazion

Chalazion is also known as a meibomian gland lipogranuloma, is a cyst in the eyelid that is caused by inflammation of a blocked meibomian gland, usually on the upper eyelid. Chalazia differ from styes (hordeola) in that they are subacute and usually painless nodules. They may become acutely inflamed but, unlike a stye, chalazia usually point inside the lid rather than on the lid margin. There is no role of bacteria in causing Chalazion. But the site affected by Chalazion can get bacterial infections. This lump is small but in some people this lump is quite large and that can give them blurred vision or distorted vision. It can give sharp pain along with inflammation. When the lump gets drainage on its own, then one gets relief from this condition. But in some rare cases Chalazion becomes chronic and patients want to remove it.

For treating the Chalazion, eye specialists will give warm compresses so as to cause the spontaneous drainage. The antibiotics are of use when it is infected. Doctors can also perform surgical operation to make the lump open and drain it manually. It is not a major operation though. In people suffering from rosacea, uncorrected refractive errors are more prone to get Chalazion again and again. There are some common causes behind the occurrence of Chalazion.

Causes of Chalazion

1. Blockage in the oil gland.
2. Viral infections
3. Low immunity levels
4. Rosacea
5. Blockage of the sebaceous glands.
6. Uncorrected refractive error.

Symptoms of Chalazion

1. Swelling on the eyelid
2. Eyelid tenderness
3. Sensitivity to light
4. Increased tearing
5. Heaviness of the eyelid

Treatment of Chalazion

1. Place warm and wet compresses on the affected eyelid for about 15 minutes. Repeat this procedure several times in a day. 
2. Put some antibiotic drops in the eye. Make sure that you have doctor's prescription for the antibiotic eye drops. 
3. Avoid rubbing or touching the Chalazion, as this could make the Chalazion lump bigger. Make sure that your children also are well advised to do so, in case they have got Chalazion. 
4. Before touching your eyelids wash your hands with soap, so as to avoid any kind of bacterial infection to the eyes. 
5. Your eye doctor might give you steroid injection in the nodule to help resolve it faster.
6. In case of chronic Chalazion, your doctors will advise you to undergo surgery.

Chalazion will take few weeks time to get cured completely. Hence your main duty is to take care that the affected eyelid doesn’t get any other kind of secondary bacterial infection. For this you should try to maintain good hygiene while cleaning your face and eyes. Clean your eyes softly so that the lump doesn't get rubbed. This is not a contagious condition; hence there is no need to worry. If your child has got Chalazion, then assure them that it will go after few weeks. Tell them not to touch the affected eyelid. 

Book an Appointment today for complete eye checkup at Diveeksha Eye Clinic an ISO 9001:2008 certified eye clinic located in Sector- 20, Noida.

Amblyopia

Amblyopia, also known as lazy eye, is an eye disorder characterized by an impaired(decreased) vision in an eye that otherwise appears normal, or out of proportion to associated structural abnormalities of the eye. It has been estimated to affect 1-5% of the population.

In amblyopia, visual stimulation either fails to transmit or is poorly transmitted through the optic nerve to the brain for a continuous period of time. It can also occur when the brain "turns off" the visual processing of one eye to prevent double-vision, for example in strabismus (squint/crossed-eyes). It often occurs during early childhood, resulting in poor or blurry vision. Amblyopia normally affects only one eye in most patients. However, it is possible, though rare, to be amblyopic in both eyes, if both fail to receive clear visual images.

Detecting the condition in early childhood increases the chance of successful treatment, especially if detected before the age of five. The earlier it is detected, and the underlying cause corrected with spectacles or surgery, the more successful the treatment in equalizing vision between the two eyes.

Mechanism of Amblyopia

Amblyopia is a developmental problem in the brain. The part of the brain receiving images from the affected eye is not stimulated properly and does not develop to its full visual potential. The critical period of visual development in humans is up to 2 years of age.

Facts of Amblyopia

If not got detected in its early stage, Amblyopia can cause marked decrease of vision along with decreased depth perception. 

In recent research on this condition, it is been found that it is easier to correct this condition in children than in adults. 

Without doing a complete eye check this condition will never get detected. Infants and pre-school going children should go for complete eye checkup to rule out this condition. 

Symptoms of Amblyopia

Many people with amblyopia, especially those who only have a mild form, are not even aware they have the condition until tested at older ages, since the vision in their stronger eye is normal. However, people who have severe amblyopia may experience related visual disorders, most notably poor depth perception. Amblyopes may suffer from poor spatial acuity, low sensitivity to contrast and some "higher-level" deficits to vision such as reduced sensitivity to motion. These deficits are usually specific to the amblyopic eye. Amblyopes also suffer from problems of  binocular vision such as limited stereoscopic depth perception and usually have difficulty seeing the three-dimensional images in hidden stereoscopic displays such as autostereograms. However, perception of depth from monocular cues such as size, perspective, and motion parallax remains normal.

Types of Amblyopia

Amblyopia has three main causes:

1. Strabismic: by squint/strabismus (misaligned eyes)
2. Refractive: by anisometropia (high degrees of myopia/nearsightedness ,hyperopia/farsightedness, or astigmatism in one or both eyes)
3. Deprivational: by deprivation of vision early in life by vision-obstructing disorders such as congenital cataract 

Treatment of Amblyopia

Treatment of strabismic or anisometropic amblyopia consists of correcting the optical deficit (wearing the necessary spectacle prescription) and often forcing use of the amblyopic eye, either by patching the good eye, or by instilling topical atropine in the good eye.

Eye patching is usually applied on a part-time schedule that is about 4-6 hours a day. Treatment is continued as long as vision improves. It is not worthwhile continuing to patch for more than 6 months if there is no improvement.

Deprivation amblyopia is treated by removing the opacity as soon as possible followed by patching or penalizing the good eye to encourage use of the amblyopic eye. The earlier treatment is initiated, the easier and faster the treatment is and the less psychologically damaging. There is also a greater chance of achieving 20/20 vision if treatment is initiated as early as possible.

Early diagnosis increases the chance for a complete recovery. This is one reason why we recommend that children have a comprehensive eye examination by the age of 6 months and again at age 3. Lazy eye will not go away on its own. If not diagnosed until the pre-teen, teen or adult years, treatment takes longer and is often less effective.

Book an Appointment today for complete eye checkup at Diveeksha Eye Clinic an ISO 9001:2008 certified eye clinic located in Sector- 20, Noida.