Archive for July, 2010

Help Pours In For Man In Need Of Eye Surgery

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Abu Dhabi: A Sri Lankan man, who is suffering from a hereditary eye disease that could lead to incurable blindness, is getting readyfor surgery after help started pouring in from Gulf News readers. google_color_border = “fbf7cc”; google_color_bg = “f6f4dc”; google_color_link = “802100″; google_color_text = “333333″; google_color_url = “802100″; Ranga Rohantha Silva has poor vision during [...]

Providing Free Eye Surgery to Cambodian Patients

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

A delegation of Vietnamese voluntary doctors on July 25 wrapped up their working trip to Cambodia’s Svay Rieng border province where they provided free eye examination and surgery to the poor patients. The trip was jointly organised by the Tay Ninh Red Cross and Nguyen Trai hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. Within two days’ [...]

Vision Therapy for Children

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

What Is Vision Therapy? Vision treatment is a sequence of eye activities that are utilized to advance the value and effectiveness of vision. It is furthermore called vision training. Vision treatment is a highly productive non-surgical treatment for various extensive visual difficulties for example slovenly eye, traversed eyes, twice vision, convergence insufficiency and some reading [...]

Eye Care in Monsoon

Sunday, July 25th, 2010

Here’s the tips that can protect your eyes during monsoon: 1 Raining infections: Incidents of allergic conjunctivitis, dry eye, sty and other infections increase during monsoon due to poor hygienic conditions. 2 Stay clean: Do not touch your eyes without washing your hands. Children love playing in water-logged streets; this can bring home waterborne bacteria [...]

Is LASIK eye surgery a good option?

Sunday, July 18th, 2010

Q. I’m thinking about getting LASIK eye surgery. Is it safe? A. LASIK, which stands for Laser-Assisted in Situ Keratomileusis, improves vision by reshaping the cornea, the clear covering of the front of the eye. Using a laser, an eye surgeon can free patients of eyeglasses and contact lenses. The results of LASIK have been [...]