How Smoking Can Affect Your Vision

How Smoking Can Affect Your Vision

Smoking has many negative effects, causing harm to much of your body. Your eyes, too, can be damaged through smoking. This article will detail some of the common ways that smoking can do damage to your vision. Firstly, long-term smoking has been shown to double the...
Common Lens Styles

Common Lens Styles

It may seem as though there is just one style of eyeglass lens, but this simply isn’t true. There is a whole host of different lens types, and these correspond with your preferences of style, and the need that you have as a person with visual impairment. It is...
Cataracts Symptoms and Treatments

Cataracts Symptoms and Treatments

Are you experiencing a little trouble with your vision? Are things generally blurrier, like someone has adjusted the focus on a camera lens, except that lens is your eyesight? Cataracts is a condition that makes one’s vision blurrier over time. It can be frightening...

How Alcohol Affects Your Vision

If you’ve drank alcohol before, you might’ve noticed some temporary changes in your vision (like blurry or double vision). While some of the short term effects may seem obvious, if abused regularly, alcohol can actually damage your eyes in the long term as well. You...
What is an Astigmatism?

What is an Astigmatism?

Most people who wear glasses will have heard the word “astigmatism” at some point.  What exactly is it, and how does it affect people and their sight?  An astigmatism simplyput is when your eye isn’t completely round.  It could either bend out like a football, or in...