| Eyes are one of the most important organs in the human body and vision is one of the most wonderful gifts. But often many people neglect the importance of eye care only to regret later on in life. Maintaining good vision and taking care of eyes is a relatively simple task. Today, I would like to educate all my readers regarding the most common eye problems. |
Eye Care – Myths and Facts.
To compound the problem, there are various myths circulating around, since ages, regarding eye diseases and eye care which have become the so called “truth” for the common man. As an ophthalmologist (eye care specialist), it is our duty to rectify those misconceptions and bring out the actual facts for all to know.
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Eye Care in Children
Maintaining good vision and taking care of eyes is a relatively simple task.
In my day to day clinical practice, we get a lot of pediatric patients having eye problems that are noticed by parents pretty late. Also injury related eye problems are very common in children. Parents are very apprehensive and have lots of doubts and myths regarding eye care and eye diseases in their kids. The aim of this article is to make all parents understand the art of taking care of their child’s eyes and ensuring perfect sight for the greater part of their lives.
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What is Cataract?
Everyone must have heard about cataract and also must be having lot of queries for the same. Cataract / Motibindu / Motiyo etc., same thing but different name. Cataract is clouding / opacification of the natural lens that is present in our eyes causing hazy vision and decrease in vision. Natural lens that is present in our eyes since birth is transparent, clear like water and hence light can pass thru’ it and fall on retina to give us clear vision. Due to various reasons and most common is ageing, the transparency of the natural lens starts decreasing and it starts becoming more and more opaque. This non transparent lens blocks the light rays and thus causes decrease in vision. This is cataract.
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Squint/ Strabismus
Squint is misalignment of the two eyes, wherein both eyes are not looking in the same direction. It is not related to any curse or good luck. It can be present from birth i.e. congenital or can be acquired later on in life. It can be constant i.e. present throughout the day or can be intermittent i.e. present for few hours a day.
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Glaucoma
Glaucoma is a disease that causes progressive visual field loss (the extent of the surrounding that one can see) loss due to damage to optic nerve for which increase in eye pressure is a strong risk factor.
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Flashes and Floaters
These are dark specks, strands, spots, dots or cobwebs moving in your field of vision...
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Colour Blindness
The term colour blindness is a common but misleading term that implies total loss of colour vision...
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Other FAQ's
Ready interesting Facts about our eyes.
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Ready interesting Eye Gyan.
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