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Some eye diseases and injuries require an eye doctor's visit right away. Urgent eye diseases and injuries: what to watch for and what not to do If you hit your eye Do not press on the eye (and do not cool or warm it).If the impact was ve...

When you are told “it’s conjunctivitis,” • I may have to keep my child home from school, daycare, or kindergarten• Can they go to the pool?• Do they have to skip their lessons and activities?• What about the daycare’s negative-test certi...

I left immunology research, my years in Boston, and university work, and in 2018 began my present work in the Takatori shopping street.It is a very simple kind of practice: thinking only about the patient. I enjoy studying to gather info...

“I see specks floating in my vision.” “My eyesight feels like it has gotten worse.” For the cause of floaters—clouding of the “vitreous”—there are ways to treat it. Breaking up the vitreous opacities into pieces so small you no longer no...

“I was told I might have glaucoma (glaucoma suspect)”“I was told I am pre-glaucoma or borderline for glaucoma”“I was told I have a touch of glaucoma”“I was told I have an enlarged optic disc cup, and when I searched online, it seemed to ...

Conversations (ENGLISH) Diabetes can cause complications throughout the body, including retinopathy, nephropathy and neuropathy. The most feared eye complication is diabetic retinopathy. Blood circulation in the retina worsens, and the r...

If you become pregnant while being treated for glaucoma If you develop glaucoma when planning pregnancy Glaucoma in pregnant women: risks at delivery—is a cesarean section better? For most glaucoma eye drops, safety during pregnancy has ...

As a cataract progresses, the crystalline lens becomes larger.An enlarged lens can narrow the angle, the drainage pathway for fluid in the eye: Eye pressure rises→ damage progresses to the nerve tissue in the eye (the retina) For this re...

Blood vessels in the eye are the only vessels in the body that can be seen directly. For this reason, doctors in specialties other than ophthalmology, such as neurosurgery, cardiology and neurology, sometimes use fundus findings to help ...

Floaters can sometimes accompany inflammation inside the eye (within the eyeball). This article is about how posterior uveitis is discovered from the symptom of floaters. Floaters That Reveal Inflammation Inside the Eye: Posterior Uveiti...