After a winter that may have seemed longer than usual, professional and amateur athletes alike are rushing for the great outdoors. They’re honing skills that may have become a bit rusty from lack of practice, searching for that competitive edge. They’re abandoning comfort food for good nutrition to gain strength, speed, and stamina. Do they know that nutrition can enhance one of the most critical sports skills – vision?
The only crayons my son would use had to have the wrappers on, showing the names of the colors. I brushed it off as the peculiarities of a five-year-old, along with not letting the foods touch on his plate. Not long after, my father was diagnosed late in life as being color vision deficient. Aha! I had grown up thinking that Dad simply had no interest in the color of anything. How easy it was to consider the behaviors to be idiosyncrasies rather than look for an underlying cause!
We see a lot of eye issues every day in this field. Patients with blurry vision who need something as simple as glasses, some who have eye diseases and need a daily regimen of eye drops or ointment for treatment, others who may be referred to a specialist for more extreme treatments. It becomes just another day’s work until it hits close to home. That’s exactly what happened to me.
Kids are spending a lot of time on digital devices these days. That’s not some bitter Xennial pot-shot at the ubiquity of cell phones and tablets in the hands of kids from 18 down to three. Rather, it’s a simple statement of fact regarding the plight of a generation who’ve been handed the moniker Zoomers—that crop of kids who’re attending school in the age of COVID.
I knew Andy Karp, Group Editor Lenses and Technology for Vision Monday and 20/20 Magazine, was a musician, but I didn’t know the extent of his talents.
What happens when someone who needs medically necessary scleral contact lenses loses the dexterity to insert and remove them? Why, he invents a robot to do it for him!
I get calls all day at work asking what our “new normal” is. Patients inquire about the length of exams, how to proceed when they arrive, anything that might have changed since COVID hit.
On October 1, the American Optometric Association (AOA) posted a notice about a recall of AquaSoft contact lenses by 1-800 CONTACTS. AquaSoft is the company’s private label brand, manufactured by Visco Technology in Malaysia.
Real people wear lenses and each one is a unique individual. Therefore, it is no surprise that in wearer trials, customized PALs were preferred over standard PALs.
