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Did you know that there are six muscles attached to your eye to control eye movement? If one or more of the muscles is weakened or underdeveloped, vision problems may occur. A common condition that often occurs due to weakened eye muscles is strabismus, often identified as cross-eyed.

You may have had your glasses for years and still be able to see fairly clearly out of them. Because your glasses are helping your eyesight, you may not realize that the condition of your eyes themselves has changed. Changes are often gradual and, therefore, hard to notice. However, it is important to continue getting regular eye exams. You might be surprised to see how much your eyesight has changed throughout the year.

Heterochromia is a condition present in some humans and animals where one iris is a different color than the other. The iris is a thin circular structure that surrounds your pupil and contains pigment or melanin, which gives our eyes their distinct color. The amount of melanin that has developed in the iris at birth and shortly after determines one’s eye color. Blue eyes contain the lowest amount of melanin while brown eyes have the most.

June is Cataract Awareness Month, and we want to take time to educate the public about cataracts and ways to reduce your risk. Cataracts are the leading cause of vision loss within the United States and are the leading cause of blindness worldwide.

When we see color, our eyes perceive various wavelengths of light. Our eyes contain two types of cells or photoreceptors that allow us to process light and distinguish colors. There are two types of photoreceptors: rods and cones.

Have you ever wondered if you or your spouse or perhaps one of your children is color blind?

Of all our senses, we probably rely on our eyesight the most for nearly everything. In everyone’s desperate attempts to prevent aging or eye degeneration, you may have come across advice from family and friends on how to keep your eyes healthy. Some of this advice may be true, but oftentimes, if you did not hear it from an optometrist, it may not be accurate. Let us dispel a few myths about vision that you may have heard!

The eye care field as a whole has done a tremendous job educating the public about the dangers of UV light, but we have failed miserably in educating the public regarding the dangers of short wavelength blue light. Part of that is we didn’t fully appreciate its affects ourselves until recently and part is we didn’t have an adequate answer of how to protect our eyes from it…until now.

Have you ever witnessed a downpour in the desert? On occasion as a young child, my family and I would sit out on our back porch and watch the lightning strike and listen to the thunder clap as the rain pelted the surrounding parched ground in the southern Utah desert of Ivins, Utah. I loved the smell following a fresh rain and still do. Despite the ferocity of these desert storms, it seemed to me the rain would quickly soak in and run off and the land would quickly parch over again.

Millions of Americans suffer from chronic eye conditions caused by microorganisms living on their eyelids. But Avenova™, a new product from NovaBay Pharmaceuticals, has been shown in laboratory testing in solution to safely kill the mites and the toxins they produce, making a real difference in patients’ lives.