Four Misconceptions About Your Eye Health Despite us using them almost every waking second of the day, there is still a lot many of us don’t know about our eyes. In this context, there is an abundance of misconceptions about vision and what it takes to keep our eyes healthy. At best, these misconceptions can be funny and harmless, but sometimes they can pose a real threat to eye health. It can be difficult to sort fact from fiction and…
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Your Eyes: Separating the Facts and the Fiction
The World Health Organisation states that 80% of the world’s blindness and serious visual impairment is preventable. There are certainly many myths and home-remedies about how to do just that. In fact, everybody has an idea about what is good or bad for your eyes but what is the truth behind it all? Here are some of the best-loved eye-related claims and the truth on the matter….
Can I Take a Sedative Before my Laser Eye Surgery Procedure?
We advise all patients before the treatment that should they require something to relax them, it is available to them. We provide oral relaxants half an hour before the procedure to those patients who are particularly anxious. Having said that, the majority of people will accept that this is a very quick, less than 15 minute, procedure, completely painless and they prefer not to be sedated in any way so as to enjoy the after-effects afterwards because the results are direct. There is no delay in terms of response to the actual treatment, the vision is available straight away….
The Five Most Common Myths About LASIK Laser Eye Surgery
Lasik surgery is one of the most widely used type of laser eye surgery, although its safe precision and rapid healing time, there are 5 myths that exist about the surgery. Optometry is said to grow over the next decade and referred to being one of the 50 best careers of 2011….
