Protecting Your Eyes At The Office

Protecting Your Eyes At The Office

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Are you an office person? For sure, your eyes are fully used for each of your work days.

On average, a typical Filipino adult spends an estimated eight hours staring at digital devices on a daily basis. This unprecedented level of screen time has caused a dramatic increase in the number of people suffering from digital eye strain. In fact, approximately 70 percent of working adults, who use a computer on a daily basis, suffer from digital eye strain. 

In a world where your job depends on using digital devices, the following tips can help you protect your eyes and relieve digital eye strain while you are in the office.

TIP #1: Organize your Workspace

Did you know that preventing digital eye strain begins with the distance that you keep between your eyes and your tablet, computer, and smartphone screen? The ideal distance between your desktop or laptop and your eyes should be approximately one arm’s length. Additionally, the center of your computer’s screen should be between 10 and 15 degrees below your eye level to increase back and neck comfort. If the majority of your work is completed on a smartphone or tablet, then you should try to keep the devices 16 to 18 inches away from your eyes to reduce digital eye strain.

TIP #2: Always Use Proper Lighting

Whether it is from harsh overhead lighting or an abundance of natural light that causes you to squint at your computer’s screen, the wrong lighting can strain your eyes. To reduce eye strain you can implement the following tips.

Set your computer’s brightness to match your surroundings. In other words, your computer’s screen shouldn’t be so dim that you are squinting to see it, nor should it be so bright that it serves as a beacon in an otherwise neutrally lit room. Don’t forget to also adjust the brightness on your smartphone and tablet.

Use drapes and blinds to reduce natural light (as needed).

Reposition your computer screen to avoid glare.

TIP #3: Modify Your Device’s Settings

In addition to adjusting the brightness on your devices, you can also modify settings to help prevent digital eye strain.

Try enlarging the text size on all of your devices. 

— As a general rule of thumb, the smaller the text, the harder your eyes have to work.

Reduce the amount of blue light that your devices emit. 

— Blue light is associated with higher rates of eye strain, which means that choosing another hue, such as red or orange, can help you to protect your eyes.

Set “device break” reminders throughout the day. 

— Give your eyes a break from screens by looking away from your computer at something that is 20 feet away for at least 20 seconds. Try to give your eyes a break at least once every 20 minutes. If you can’t give your eyes a break every 20 minutes, then remember to blink more, which will give your eyes the moisture and nutrients that they need to stay healthy and lubricated.

Have you begun to feel the effects of digital eye strain? If your eyes are becoming irritated from prolonged daily exposure to digital screens, then you should schedule an eye appointment today with our experienced eye specialists in one of our clinics.

Our team will help you recover from digital eye strain, and suggest additional ways that you can protect your eyes while working.

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Crying Can Be Good: Why We Need Tears

Crying Can Be Good: Why We Need Tears

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We usually only think about tears when we are crying as part of our body’s emotional response to a certain situation or laughing so hard that our eyes begin to water. While tears might typically be far from our minds, the truth is that they are actually a vital part of our eye health. In fact, there are several types of tears and various reasons that we need them to maintain healthy eyesight throughout life.

Tears Protect Our Eyes on a Daily Basis

Did you know that tears protect our eyes on a daily basis? Each eye has a special tear film that creates a barrier between the eye’s vulnerable surface and outside irritants, allergens, and germs. This protective film consists of three different layers. The mucous layer sits directly on top of the cornea; the aqueous layer consists of saltwater and is the basis for our tears, while the outer layer is oily. Together, all three layers help our eyes stay lubricated and clean throughout the day. In fact, with every blink, the protective film creates tears that wash microscopic debris and irritants from our eyes, keep our vision clear, and help our eyes stay comfortable in a wide variety of conditions.

Tears Keep Our Eyes Comfortable and Offer Emotional Benefits

The aqueous layer of the protective tear film creates both reflex and emotional tears. These two types of tears have numerous benefits. As their name suggests, reflex tears are our eyes’ natural response when they need to flush out debris and other irritants. Emotional tears help to clear out stress-causing chemicals. In fact, this is why we often cry when we are faced with emotional situations. Together, reflexes and emotional tears help our eyes and bodies find relief in a wide variety of circumstances.

Too Many Tears or Dry Eyes?

Are your eyes constantly wet or overflowing with tears? Or perhaps you have the opposite problem and dry eyes are causing you discomfort. Dry eyes can occur from allergens, abnormal tear production, as a response to medication, age, and other reasons. Dry eyes can not only be uncomfortable, but they can lead to other eye issues. The good news is that our eye experts are here to help. To cure your dry eyes, and ensure that your vision is healthy, be sure to schedule an eye appointment with us!

For inquiries, questions, and appointments, call our Patient Care Lines: 

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Benefits To Having LASIK That You Might Not Expect

Benefits To Having LASIK That You Might Not Expect

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It is a well-known fact that LASIK is a procedure designed to permanently correct your vision. In most cases, patients who undergo LASIK experience a drastic improvement in all aspects of their vision. 

Here are some aspects of your vision that might see an improvement that is less well-known:

  • Reduced Levels of Allergic Symptoms: In some cases, patients claim to experience a lot fewer allergy symptoms after having LASIK. They claim to suffer from less sinus pain and fewer headaches as well due to not having to have a pair of glasses resting on their nose. Eyes are irritated less often as well due to not having to take contacts in and out of your eyes on a daily basis.
  • Boosted Peripheral Vision: While your central vision is improved, the peripheral aspects of your vision also see a noticeable boost in clarity when compared to the alternative glasses. Glasses don’t wrap perfectly around the eyes, so your peripheral vision actually ends up getting distorted and blurred.
  • Better Nighttime Vision: While a small percentage of LASIK patients still experience seeing mild glare/halos after undergoing LASIK surgery, the vast majority say their nighttime vision has improved beyond anything they had experienced before. You will no longer need to deal with light reflecting off your lenses. Contacts have a habit of drying out your eyes as well, which causes you to experience fuzzy nighttime vision. Without having to deal with corrective lenses your nighttime vision is much clearer.

Achieve a bright vision and all the benefits that come along with it by having LASIK!

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Reasons Why Its Time to Ditch Your Glasses for LASIK

Reasons Why It’s Time to Ditch your Glasses for LASIK

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Think back to the moment when your eye doctor first told you that your vision was not 20/20 and you needed glasses. For most people, this moment was not a happy moment but a moment of panic. 

For years’ glasses have carried with them an unfortunate social stigma—phrases like “four eyes” come to mind. If you use glasses today, then you might be due for an upgrade. Thanks to many advances in technology, LASIK has become safer and more accessible than ever. 

Here are the reasons you should consider ditching your glasses:

  1.   Glasses carry with them a certain level of inconvenience. Depending on the severity of your visual impairment finding your glasses in the morning on your nightstand might be quite difficult. Who wants to have to fumble around to put your eyes on in the morning? The other issue with glasses is they get dirty easily, so throughout the day, you might have to wash your glasses 2-3 times depending on the type of lifestyle you live.

Protecting your vision from harmful UV rays proves to be a challenge as well. You can choose to invest thousands of pesos more on prescription sunglasses, spend a small fortune on transition lenses, or purchase cheap hideously ugly clip-on shares that scratch your expensive glasses frames up. None of these options are ideal, and it would be best to just avoid them all.

Going to the theater for a nice 3D movie experience can be difficult as well when you have glasses because the 3D glasses never fit very comfortably over your glasses and normally cause your ears to be sore by the end of the cinema experience. The 3D glasses can also scratch up your lenses and frames.

  1.   If you wear glasses, then you must be tired of having to update your prescription every other year. Glasses are expensive and having to regularly buy a new pair or two ends up being an expensive endeavor throughout your life. You aren’t left with many options either, if you choose to ignore your changing glasses prescription, then you might as well not wear glasses at all because you won’t be seeing as clearly as you could be and you could experience recurring headaches. Even if you are in the habit of upgrading your prescription when necessary, you might still get headaches each time you start wearing those new prescription lenses.
  1.   Your wallet might cry a little. Shopping for glasses can be fun, but as soon as it becomes time to cash out reality sinks in, and you realize that you are about to spend a small fortune on an item that will probably only last you two years maximum. LASIK might seem like a more expensive procedure, but when you compare it to a lifetime of glasses, there is actually quite a large amount of savings.

Don’t let glasses drag your lifestyle down, get the most out of life with your own two eyes and choose LASIK. Choosing LASIK means complete visual freedom to see what you want to see without the need for expensive lenses that can be easily damaged or lost. 

Come see us today and ask one of our experts if LASIK is the right choice for you.

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loss of vision due to high blood pressure

High Blood Pressure Might Lead to Vision Loss

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Monitoring high blood pressure and eye health can warn you of possible health concerns. Blood pressure is one of the most important health indicators, and untreated high blood pressure can lead to many different medical conditions throughout the body, including deadly strokes and heart attacks. By taking care of your eyes, you’ll be able to catch high blood pressure eye symptoms early and decrease your risk of other health issues.

Blood Pressure and Vision Problems

Most people don’t think about their eyes when it comes to their blood pressure, but there are actually several indicators of hypertension (another term for high blood pressure) that medical professionals can detect during an eye exam. 

High blood pressure and red eyes often occur simultaneously. The eyes are full of blood vessels, and they typically stiffen and join each other in instances of high blood pressure. Severe cases can lead to blood leakage and busted blood vessels, which can have many dangerous effects on the vision.

Eye Symptoms from High Blood Pressure

High blood pressure can have a range of symptoms, some of which may impact the eyes. One common symptom is hypertensive retinopathy, a condition that can cause changes in the blood vessels in the retina. 

This can lead to symptoms such as blurred vision, double vision, and even vision loss in severe cases. In addition to retinopathy, high blood pressure can also cause other eye problems such as optic nerve damage, eye hemorrhages, and fluid buildup in the macula. 

Early Detection of High Blood Pressure is Critical

Maintaining a healthy blood pressure level is one of the best things you can do to safeguard your long-term health, for your eyes and many other vital organs throughout your body. In addition to vision problems such as loss of sight due to blood vessel damage or fluid buildup, chronic high blood pressure effects on eyes can include serious impacts on your heart health. 

If left untreated, high blood pressure often leads to serious complications that don’t allow your vital organs to supply blood to the rest of your body — such as strokes or heart attacks.

Being on Top of your Eye and Heart Health

Thankfully, most cases of high blood pressure can be treated by a variety of methods that vary from changes in diet and exercise to medication, depending upon the patient. Early detection is crucial to ensure that eye pressure and high blood pressure can be managed before you are at increased risk for the most serious complications. 

Undergoing regular eye exams with your eye doctor is not only important for your long-term eye health, but it’s also one of the best things you can do to mitigate risk factors and prevent heart disease.

Hypertensive Retinopathy

When blood pressure increases, the retina’s blood vessel wall begins to thicken. This can cause blood vessels to narrow and discourage blood flow to the retina. In some cases, the retina can become swollen. 

If this goes untreated, high blood pressure can lead to damaged blood vessels in your eyes, limit your eyes’ function and put unwanted pressure on the delicate optic nerve. This results in a condition called Hypertensive Retinopathy (HR).

Symptoms of Hypertensive Retinopathy

Hypertensive Retinopathy will sneak up on you, and you probably won’t experience symptoms until it has progressed to a dangerous level. Possible signs of HR include:

  • Loss of vision
  • Swollen eyes
  • Bursting blood vessels in the eyes
  • Double vision
  • Headaches

Avoiding Hypertensive Retinopathy

HR happens when blood levels are significantly high over an extended period of time. However, there are steps you can take that limit your chances of getting high pressure.

  • Stay physically active
  • Avoid salty foods
  • Remember to destress
  • Live a healthy lifestyle physically and mentally

You could also be at risk if you have a family history of high blood pressure.

The best course of action to take in order to avoid Hypertensive Retinopathy is to pair your healthy lifestyle with regular visits to your eye doctor. Stay ahead of the game on any issues, and your chances of developing any dangerous conditions will be limited.

Contact Shinagawa today to schedule an appointment at one of our three branches in the Metro. Our ophthalmologists will examine your eyes for signs of hypertension and help you discover if you need to seek treatment for high blood pressure.

For inquiries, questions, and appointments, call our Patient Care Lines: 

📱 (+63) 917 862 7454

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