When I purchase and use over-the-counter products, the first thing that comes to my mind is safety. The product probably wouldn’t be accessable and easily available if this were not true. The second thing that comes to mind is effectiveness, although I keep a watchful eye about that. Of course, most OTC products have a…[Read more]
Tinted Glasses May Help Reduce Pain
A very promising article published in Review of Optometric Business from December, 2022 A recent study showed that wearing special green-tinted eyeglasses reduces pain in patients with fibromyalgia and others who experience chronic pain, according to a press release issued by Edward Paul, OD, Ph.D. This may help decrease the need for opioids to manage…[Read more]
From WebMD, we now enter the bizarro world…
A California eye doctor is urging people to be more vigilant when wearing contact lenses after removing 23 contact lenses from a patient’s eye. In a video posted on Instagram, ophthalmologist Katerina Kurteeva, MD, is shown removing contact lenses from a woman’s eye. “Don’t sleep in your contact lenses!” she warned. “They were essentially glued…[Read more]
Test Your Contact Lens Knowledge
Hi everyone- it’s time for a quiz! Judging from the results of a national poll, it appears that there is a lot of misinformation and misunderstandings regarding contact lenses. So I thought it would be interesting to prove that my patients are more informed than the rest of those in the country.No cheating. Sharpen your…[Read more]
Smart Glasses?
Everything is “smart” these days- I can talk to my Alexa speaker and she talks back. GMail knows what I’m going to type before I do. My 16 year old daughter is smart- in fact she reminds me daily that she is smarter than me until she wants something. Glasses are now “smart” too. Actually,…[Read more]
A Busy Year for the FDA
The end of 2021 was a busy time for the FDA, as they approved 2 more novel prescription medications for eye care. The first was Vuity, which is a once daily drop for the treatment of presbyopia (a fancy word for “getting older and can’t see up close anymore). The target age is mid 40’s…[Read more]
No More Reading Glasses!
Presbyopia is a fancy word that translates to ” I’m getting old and I can’t see up close anymore and I need longer arms or I have to break down and buy reading glasses”. But wait… a long awaited solution appears to be on the near horizon (finally). “Fixing” presbyopia has been talked about for…[Read more]
Must Watch- Blue Light undercover
Amen! I’ve been preaching this since the Pandemic started. There is NO science behind blue light-blocking lenses. This video is worth 10 minutes of your time. Show it to your Millennial kids, too. And you can thank me later for NOT picking your pockets like other places apparently do.
Let’s Discuss Blue Light
2020 was supposed to be my year- the year of the eye doctor! 2020- get it? Many eye care professionals were getting ready to implement marketing campaigns that were foolproof. The only way they could fail was if a once-every-100-year pandemic were to wipe out an entire year. And so the story goes… It seems…[Read more]
New World Health Organization Guidelines
As parents, we are all aware that the world in which our children are growing up is so much different than 30-40 years ago. With the internet, along with phones, tablets, and laptops, our kids have access to so much information at their fingertips which is a good thing (we’ll save the arguments against social…[Read more]