Ophthalmology

Dry eyes is a common condition that occurs when your tears are not able to provide adequate lubrication for your eyes. Tears can be inadequate for many reasons. For example, dry eyes may occur if you do not produce enough tears or if you produce poor-quality tears. Dry eyes feel uncomfortable. If you have dry eyes, your eyes may sting or burn. You may experience dry eyes in certain situations, such as on an airplane, in an air-conditioned room, while riding a bike or after looking at a computer…

Stickler Syndrome is a rare disease due to several mutations in certain types of genes that are involved in the formation of collagen. Collagen is an important building block of connective tissues, which is mostly effected throughout the body by Stickler Syndrome. This disease affects both male and female; the rate is at approximately one to three in every ten thousand births and one within every seventy-five hundred births. Investigators of this disease believe that Stickler Syndrome is very…

Glaucoma is a disease that causes blindness in the eye and it also damages the optic nerve, which is what helps the eye keep its good vision. The optic nerve comes from the sensory fibers and it is what conducts impulses from the retina to the brain. Elderly people are more likely to develop glaucoma when they’re around the age 60 but glaucoma can also develop on young adults, or an infant could just be born with it. 1 out of 10,000 babies are born with glaucoma, which may not seem like a many,…

Cataracts occur when the lens becomes blurry, causing vision to be hazy and distorted. The lens is between the lens and pupil and refracts light that comes into the eye, which helps us to see and focus on objects. Those who experience cataracts, feel like they are looking through a foggy window. There are four main types of cataracts, traumatic cataracts, congenital cataracts, secondary cataracts, and radiation cataracts. Traumatic cataracts can occur from ocular injury, which will disrupts lens…

This was a fun exercise to wrap up the term. With this presentation, I tried to hit a topic that is near and dear to my own career aspirations in optometry. As I have stated in several posts over the term, optometry (like dentistry or even public health) is a vastly underrated field of medicine. And with my long-term dream of getting into pediatric optometry and working with children with visual impairments, I saw an opportunity to bring the eyes and community health assessment into one project.…

Optometrist/OD (Career Info.) Optometrists are now and have been for a long time a basic necessity of society. Optometrists, also known as doctors of optometry, or ODs, provide most basic vision care. They diagnose, manage and treat conditions and diseases of the eyes and visual system. ODs examine people’s eye to diagnose vision problem and eye disease, and they prescribe eyeglasses and contact lenses. Optometrists also administer drugs to patients to aid in the diagnosis of vision problems and…

Macular Degeneration Special Senses Macular Degeneration, also called age-related macular degeneration AMD for short, is a disease that affects the sight of a person. Macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness in America. It affects people between sixty five and older, which is a large proportion of Americans today. The macula, an oval shaped pigment near the near the center of the retina, is responsible for the sharp, high-acuity, central vision. Within the macula are the fovea…

1. Retinal Detachment Retinal detachment is a medical emergency that occurs when the thin sensory layer of the eye becomes separated from the rest of the eye. This cause vision changes and blindness if not taken care of properly. Proper nursing care and patient compliance is essential in restoring functioning of the eye and protecting against serious complications. ( Williams, 2011)(WebMD, 2016). Anatomy and Physiology The retina in a thin layer of tissue that is covered in nerve cells at the…

Intro: More than three million americans have glaucoma according to the Glaucoma Research Foundation. Of that three million only half of them are aware that they have glaucoma. Glaucoma effect so many people yet very few are aware of this chronic disease. Most people would like to see the world and all of its beauty but for many their sight is silently leaving them. Once that vision is lost it can never be brought back. Bringing awareness, knowledge, and understanding to the topic of glaucoma…

Glaucoma is an eye disorder where there is pressure in the eyeball that can cause loss of vision. The pressure that is created is known as “intraocular pressure”. It mainly affects the optic nerve. If caught early enough, treatment can be done to prevent major vision loss, or for your vision to worsen. Glaucoma cannot only develop just from your drainage system malfunctioning. Babies can have an underdevelopment of the drainage system in their eye, which can be inherited, but is very rare. This…