Categories: Uncategorized
Optometrist | What we do Today Optometrists are health care professionals serving as primary care providers for eye care. Primary care providers are the initial entry into the health care system and function to treat the common vision and eye diseases seen. In the event there is a need for more complex treatment, such as [...]
Categories: Contact Lenses, double vision, Eye Diseases, Kerataconus, Vision Service Plan -VSP
Keratoconus | Eye Doctors Contact Lenses and New Options for Treatment Keratoconus is an eye disease that causes vision to gradually worsen over time, as the transparent corneal tissue that covers the front of the eye thins and bulges forward, forming the cone shape that keratoconus is named for. Rapid increases in nearsightedness and astigmatism [...]
Categories: Contact Lenses
There is a difference between eye exams for contact lenses versus eye exams for eyeglass wearers. When making an appointment for an eye exam, express your desires for either eyeglasses or contact lenses. Typically, people already wearing eyeglasses schedule appointments to switch over to contact lenses. The motivation may be cosmetic, better peripheral vision, or [...]
Categories: Contact Lens Solutions, Contact Lenses, Eye Allergies, FEATURED
We still see allergies to the preservatives in contact lens solutions in our Fort Collins Contact Lens Clinic but at a much lower frequency than in the past. Thimerosal, (sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate) is an older contact lens solution preservative whose composition is about half mercury. It as commonly used in very low doses in contact lens [...]
Categories: Corneal Infections, Keratitis, Pinkeye
Contact lens solutions will soon be required to have two new additions to their labeling. Although most manufacturers no longer label solutions “no rub” the F.D.A. will require rubbing lenses as part of disinfecting cycle on labeling for all multipurpose contact lens solutions. The other change will be to add a discard after opening date [...]
Categories: Contact Lens Problems, Contact Lenses, Eye Allergies, Fort Collins Eye Doctor, Fort Collins Optometrist, Giant Papillary Conjunctivitis-GPC, Pinkeye, Vision Insurance, Vision Service Plan -VSP
SIX SIGNS YOU MAY HAVE GPC FROM YOUR CONTACT LENSES Itchy eyes as contact lenses get older Lenses that slide and stick under the upper eye lid Irritation Every Time You Blink Mucous Discharge and Foggy Vision Lenses That Discolor and Develop a Film Intermittent Red Eye With Feeling Something is Scratching Your Eye In [...]