What Are Dry Eyes in Summer? Dry eyes in summer is a common condition that affects many people due to the unique environmental factors of the season. While dry eyes can occur year-round, summer often makes symptoms worse due to sun exposure, increased outdoor activities, high temperatures, and air conditioning. Understanding the triggers and treatments…
When you think of sun protection, sunscreen probably comes to mind first. But what about protecting your eyes? The truth is, ultraviolet (UV) rays can do serious damage to your eyes—often without you even realizing it. That’s why sunglasses aren’t just a fashion statement—they’re an essential part of your eye health routine. At Radiant Eye Care,…
Regular comprehensive eye examinations are a vital component of every effective diabetes management plan. Why? The very mechanisms that define diabetes — insulin problems and high blood sugar (hyperglycemia) — can progressively damage your eyes and lead to vision loss or even blindness. Preventing diabetes-related eye complications and vision loss starts successful blood sugar control,…
It is extremely common for adults to wake up in the morning a little achy and stiff, and still a bit tired. The night before might be a little blurry, but why would your vision be blurry after a normal night’s sleep? Turns out, dry eyes and slightly blurry vision in the morning is also a very common…
The Digital Age is said to have officially begun in the mid-20th century when the world’s largest economies shifted from traditional industries to an economy based on the latest information technology. The internet as we know it became public in 1993, with desktop computers becoming fairly common later that decade, followed in short time by laptop computers and…
At some point in all our lives we’ll hear our doctor say, “You know, you really should be taking a daily multivitamin.” The simple fact is that as people age, they tend to reduce their overall consumption and absorption of necessary vitamins and minerals. In fact, fifty percent of older adults have a vitamin and mineral intake…
Retinopathy simply refers to damage to the retina caused by disease. The retina is the layer of tissue and cells at the back of the eye that captures light and transmits that light as images to the brain. Any damage to the retina via injury or disease can and often leads to vision impairment or complete vision loss. Disease that…
An Aspirin A Day, Or Just Get Your Eyes Checked If you were to run a couple of miles every day for a week, you might notice your legs are particularly sore come Saturday. You might even notice they’re pretty sore after that first run! You’ve been around the block enough times to know when…
If you could see the world from the standpoint of your eye alone, it might look like the night sky during a meteor shower with a thousand glittering objects of various size and substance flying at you from every conceivable direction and no hands to put up to protect yourself. Instead of shooting stars, though,…
How smart would your smartphone really be if only people with 20/20 vision could use it? Turns out, the designers of the most ubiquitous smartphone technologies out there, the Android and Apple iPhone, thought a smartphone like that wouldn’t be very smart at all. From its inception, the smartphone has always had accessibility built right into the…