3rd International Conference on Optometry

Glasses are more popular than ever before as a fashion statement. Despite their increased celebrity, some people who use glasses do not wear them. Regardless of the reason, failing to wear your glasses can have substantial short- and long-term consequences. Squinting, headaches, and fatigue Squinting , headaches, wiping your eyes and exhaustion are all indicators that you may need glasses. You might stumble into or trip over items if you don't wear glasses, you won't be able to see far away or up close (more on that later), and you'll have problems reading or seeing at night. The age-related warning indicators differ. Increased risk of injury When someone who needs corrective glasses refuses to use them, they are not operating with the best possible vision. Because sight accounts for about 90% of a person's reaction time while driving, getting behind the wheel without glasses increases the danger of injury to both the driver and others. Long-term effects Inc...

Lazy eye is also known as Amblyopia. Sight in which the brain doesn’t stimulate inputs from one eye and overtime the other one. It results in decreased vision in an eye and typically appears normal. Amblyopia is the most common disease where results the vision in a single eye in children and younger adults. It can be seen in children at the age of five. Rarely 1-5% of the population get affected by lazy eye. Effect of lazy eye is more in children than adults. Parents couldn’t recognize this lazy eye at initial time and promptly treated, reduced vision can be avoided. But if left untreated, lazy eye can cause severe disability in the vision of affected eye, including legal blindness Diseases can be occurred if the lazy eye left untreated or not improper treatment is provided ·          Refractive errors ·          Strabismus ·          Cataracts ·  ...

  In about 10 to 20 percent of people with shingles, the rash appears in and around the eye. This type of shingles is called ophthalmic herpes zoster. Shingles in the eye can cause scarring, vision loss, and other long-term problems. The first shingles symptom most people notice is a tingling or burning pain, often on one side of their body. The feeling is often in the trunk area, which includes the:           waist           Chest          Ribcage Other early signs are:           Headache           Low fever           Fatigue           Flu-like symptoms Within two to three days, reddened skin, and a rash will appear in the area where you feel like pain. The shingles virus travels along a nerve path, so the rash will often form a line on one side of the body or face. Within a couple of da...