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Children’s Eye Health

Eye care isn’t just for adults. In fact,maintaining your children’s eye health is critical, because a child’s visual development reaches maturity between the ages of 9 and 11. Early diagnosis can mean the difference between normal vision and a permanently “lazy” eye. But would you know if your child had a problem with his sight? Unfortunately, children often accept their vision problems as normal because they simply don’t know better or cannot find the words to communicate what is occurring. And very often kids with vision problems are mislabeled as having a learning disability. But now is the perfect time to take a closer look at your child’s sight.

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The kids are going back to school. There will be the usual grumbling about too much homework and who gets to sit in the chair closest to the TV.

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Prevent Eye Problems

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Flying back: With a view from above, we can see an electric-blue river twisting its way along an ice cap in Greenland.

Be On The Lookout For Eye Problems and Vision Changes ( Inspired by John Tesh)

Do you get more fatiqued when you read than you used to? How about vision recovery after looking at bright lights? Does it take you longer to recover?

Help prevent glaucoma, which can only be detected by a test…Control your blood pressure! This helps.

And, be sun smart with your eyes. Wear the right shades!

Doctors recommend aspirins; so why is it a proven fact that we survive heart attacks and strokes better if we take between 7-14 aspirins a week? Because it reduces inflammation. And, so does Omega 3!

(ps always check with your own personal health professional)

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Science has made great strides in identifying the true cause of heart disease –inflammation. Inflammation leading to heart disease is typically the result of nutritional deficiencies and poor lifestyle habits. Working to prevent inflammation by adhering to proper nutrition is working to prevent heart disease. Omega 3 – Fish Oil – The Anti-Inflammation Supplement.

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Eye Charts – How Do They Work

My son is 5 years old and has just had his first school eyesight test. We have been advised to take him to see an optician – which of course we will do but I just want to check what the following means.

The school test said that on the Snellen scale he is 6/6 (20/20) in his left eye and 6/9 (20/30) in his right eye. (This is in metric)

Can someone explain what this means and if it is anything to seriously worry about.

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Herman Snellen, a Dutch ophthalmologist, designed the first eye chart, which measures visual acuity. Referred to as the Snellen Chart, it was developed in 1862 and is still used today. He set the baseline of measurement at 20 feet, the approximate distance at which light rays entering the eye are parallel and do not require our eyes to bend the rays to focus them upon the retina.Snellen set the standard of 20/20 (6/6 Metric) vision to represent “normal sight,” or what a person with normal vision could see at a distance of 20 feet. (Weber, Humphrey, and Silver, 1997)

This means that a person with 20/40 (6/12 Metric) vision must be 20 feet away to read what he or she should be able to read at 40 feet; a person with 20/85 vision must be 20 feet away to read what he or she should be able to read at 85 feet away, and so on.

This standard does not measure visual acuity at close distances. Similar charts were devised with smaller letters to read at close range for the measurement of near vision. Read the whole article here

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Vision Care – Peripheral Vision

We have surprisingly low visual acuity (resolution) in parts of the visual field that are not at the center of gaze — where we are looking. We are not aware of this because we instinctively direct our center of gaze to where we are looking.
The center of gaze, called the fovea, has a higher density of cones than anywhere else on the retina. In fact, at the fovea, there are no rods at all. (In the diagram at right, the cones are shown in green.)

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