Diabetes can affect your health in many ways, including your eye health. In fact, diabetes is a leading cause of blindness in adults. More than 100 million people in the United States have diabetes or prediabetes. If you are one of the millions of people with...
Keeping your eyes moist and lubricated is vital for eye health. It’s also important for eye comfort. When your eyes don’t get enough lubrication through tears, they can feel dry, scratchy, and irritated. This dry, irritating condition is called dry eye, and it’s widespread. Dry eye syndrome...
Pink eye, also called conjunctivitis, is a very common and usually a highly contagious type of eye infection. Pink eye occurs when the conjunctiva, which is the thin layer that lines the inside of your eyelids and the white of your eyes, becomes inflamed. The inflammation...
Keratoconus is a rare eye condition, affecting about 1 in every 2,000 people. Keratoconus, also called KC, first affects young people in their late teens or early 20s. The disease may progress for about 10 years or more and may stabilize at that point. There is no...
Dry eye syndrome is a common condition in the United States, especially among older people. While the condition does not threaten your vision, it is uncomfortable and irritating and, if left untreated, can impact the quality of your life. Meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD), a widespread...
Macular degeneration can lead to blindness if left untreated, and there’s no cure. That’s why you need to know about and be on the lookout for symptoms of this widespread eye disease. Also called age-related macular degeneration (AMD), this condition is, in fact, the leading...
Photorefractive keratectomy surgery (PRK) was the precursor surgery to LASIK. Both are refractive laser surgeries performed to improve your eyesight. LASIK was developed from the PRK technique. You may think that since LASIK is the more modern version of PRK that PRK would be obsolete...
Diabetes can affect many areas on your body if it’s not managed well. Your eyes are a part of your body that diabetes can severely impact. Diabetes that is not managed well can lead to several diabetes-related eye diseases, all of which can result in...