You can reduce eye strain by taking regular breaks, adjusting your workspace and screen settings, using artificial tears, and ensuring your eyeglass prescription is up to date. […]
How to Reduce Eye Strain From Screens
Can Dry Eyes Cause Floaters?
Dry Eyes & Floaters: What’s the Connection? When eye floaters are sneaking into your sight, you might be wondering if your dry eyes are the cause. Dry eyes can cause various symptoms, and many can impact your vision. Visiting Eye Rx for an eye exam or dry eye therapy can diagnose your eye health and […]
Can You Get Prescription Blue Light Glasses?
Do you spend a lot of time in front of a computer screen? If so, you may be at risk for digital eye strain. This is a condition that can cause headaches, fatigue, and dry eyes. One way to help protect your eyes is to wear blue-light-blocking glasses. These glasses are designed to filter out […]
Can You Wear Contacts With Astigmatism?
Astigmatism is a common vision problem affecting a large number of Americans. This condition often results from a misshaped curve on the eye’s inside lens, or irregularly shaped corneas affecting the way light reaches the retina. If you have astigmatism, you may experience blurred or distorted vision. These vision issues may decrease or increase, depending […]
Can Eye Exams Detect Diabetes?
If you have recently been diagnosed with diabetes, it is important that you get your eyes examined by a licensed eye doctor. The effects of diabetes can cause stress or damage to your blood vessels, many of which can be found located at the back of your eye and retina. The best way to make […]
When To Worry About Eye Twitching
Most of us know the feeling: a twitch in the eye, uncontrolled and unintentional. It can be distracting, irritating, and a little uncomfortable. An eye twitch can be annoying, but have you ever grown concerned that it might indicate something more serious? A sign of eye disease or another problem in the body, perhaps? There’s […]
Are Glasses & Contact Prescriptions the Same?
Picture this: you’re picking up a new pair of glasses and ask to add on some contact lenses to your purchase. Would you be surprised to hear you can’t get them without another full eye exam? Confusion is understandable; you have a glasses prescription in hand! What’s the issue? Whether you’re looking for glasses or […]
Scleral Contact Lenses for Keratoconus & Irregular Corneas
Some eye conditions make finding contacts feel impossible. Keratoconus and other eye conditions can affect the shape of your cornea, making traditional contacts a poor fit—literally and figuratively. Thankfully, there are specialty contacts designed for hard-to-fit eyes, including the larger, more rigid scleral contact lens. These lenses can offer clear vision with many of the […]
Can Myopia Control Cure Nearsightedness?
If you have ever started your morning by rolling over and grasping for your glasses, you may have dreamt of there one day being a cure for nearsightedness. For now, the only way to correct nearsightedness (also known as myopia) is by wearing contacts or glasses, or with refractive surgery. But advances in optometry in […]
What Is a Contact Lens Exam & Why Are They Important?
If you have to wear contact lenses, you’re not alone. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 45 million people wear contact lenses in America alone. Even though contact lenses are common, most people don’t realize the importance of properly fitting contact lenses. Because contact lenses are worn directly on the […]
