Eye Supervision Academy

Bad contact lens habit to leave behind Introduction: Contact lenses are a convenient and popular alternative to traditional eyeglasses, providing vision correction without the hassle of frames. However, improper use and care of contact lenses can lead to a range of eye problems, including infections and corneal damage. It's essential to educate ourselves about the potential risks and adopt good habits to maintain healthy eyes while wearing contact lenses. In this blog post, we will discuss some common bad contact lens habits that need to be left behind for the sake of our eye health. 1. Sleeping with Contact Lenses On: One of the most prevalent bad habits is sleeping with contact lenses on. While some lenses are designed for extended wear, the majority are not. When we sleep with lenses, we deprive our eyes of oxygen, which can lead to corneal swelling and increase the risk of infections. It is crucial to follow the recommended wearing schedule provided by your eye care professiona...

  An optometrist can see changes in the back of the eye in the macular region where  basically the cells are separating or there's different fluid that deposit in that area and causes changes in your business that can cause warped vision or wavy vision. It can also cause you some small spots of vision loss that you might not necessarily notice. These are the small things that a lot of people don't know because they are fearful. Some people enjoy watching TV alot and some people are more into reading books. In this case an optometrist is going to be catered more towards that. And so those looking at specific activities that they want to continue doing is the way  than an optometrist will progress into helping them with their vision needs. And the most important thing is just letting people know that if they are diagnosed with an eye condition or an eye disease, that life isn't over, that we can keep them seeing and still doing the things that they want to.  There are ...

If you need glasses but choose not to wear them, some people assume that such a decision will make your vision worse, but that's not the case! Corrective glasses help to compensate mismatches in corneal shape, thus helping people to see clearly and reduce the strain on their eyes.  Not wearing glasses doesn't make your vision worse, but it does force your eyes to work harder!  Having "poor eyesight" isn't a clear diagnosis of a single condition, as there are dozens of situations and scenarios that can lead to impaired vision.  Growing up, blurred or unclear vision may be evidence that you are nearsighted (myopia) or farsighted (hyperopia), have an astigmatism, or perhaps a lazy eye.  Myopia and hyperopia are most common forms of vision problems, but astigmatism is also quite a common problem.  These vision impairments are caused by the shape and size of the cornea in relation to the eyeball. The cornea is where the light and image are focused allowing us to see,...

Light rays enter the eye through the clear cornea, pupil and lens. These light rays are focused directly onto the retina. The light sensitive tissue lining the back of the eye, the retina converts light rays into impulses sent through the optic nerve  to the brain where they're recognized as images 70% of the eyes focusing power comes from the cornea and 30% from the lens when we can't see clearly it's often caused by a refractive error.  There are four types of refractive error 1. Myopia or nearsightedness This is where the distance between the cornea and the retina is too long so that light rays focus in front of the retina instead of on it with myopia close objects will look clear but distant objects will appear blurred. 2. Hyperopia or farsightedness   This is where the distance between the cornea and the retina is too short. Here light rays are focused behind the retina instead of on it. Distant objects will look clear but close pbjects will appear blurred. 3. Astigm...

The rotational movements of intorsion and extorsion are necessary to keep a viewed object stable and positioned on the appropriate part of the retina as the head is tilted from side to side. To illustrate imagine standing upright and looking at an arrow that is pointing superiorly.  Now tilt your head 45 degrees to the right, does the arrow move with your head? Now point at a 45 degree angle, hopefully not. Because of intorsion and extortion the arrow should still appear to be pointing superiorly. In this case the right eye has been intowarded and the left eye has been equivalently extorted so that the image falls on the same part of the retina as before the head tilt. Obviously our eye has a limited range of intorsion and extorsion. They cannot spin completely around within the orbit. And if we were to stand on our head the arrow would appear to change direction and appear to point inferiorly. Now, lets look at the movements produced by each of the extra oculum muscles. Medial and...

When the brain fails to interpret and processing of visual information is known as  Visual Perception Dysfunction .  Visual Perception Visual perception dysfunction is not tested using an eye chart. The ability to read the 20/20 row does not mean a person is free of visual perception deficits.  Visual perceptual deficits can affect day to day activities  as well as academic performance including sports and also  in areas such as reading and math. Commonly individuals with visual perceptual deficits are encouraged to “work harder” or to “try harder”. Disorders of Visual Perception Treatments: Unfortunately, individuals do not outgrow visual perceptual dysfunction and cannot overcome them by simply working harder.  Visual perception, or visual processing dysfunction, refers to deficits in the ability to make sense of information that is taken in through the eyes. Visual perceptual skills involve the ability to  interpret and organize  the informatio...

Orbital Cysts Orbital cysts  is presented as a painless swelling in the lateral angle of an orbit which gradually increases in size. Usually there is no pain over the swelling. On examination the swelling can be globular in shape, fluctulant and non-transilluminate. Factors which shows signs of orbital cysts: The overlying skin stays free.  The cysts indents on pressure. There is bony indendation at the margin of the orbit around the swelling. Diagnosis and other possibilities: It may be: Sebaceous cyst Meningocele Lipoma  Fibroma Neurofibroma Dermoid cyst occur at the lines of embryonic fusion, whereas sebaceous cyst may occur at any site. Dermoid cyst lies in subcutaneous tissue and is free from the skin.  Dermoid Cysts The sebaceous cyst lies deep to the epidermis and the skin is usually fixed  to the cyst and there is usually punctum over the skin. Now if you are suffering from Meningocele your symptoms will be: Presence of cough impulse Bony gap is palpab...