No two eyes are the same, but since science has not provided us with a way to “customize” our treatments, we treat all eyes the same way. That is until now….
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You may now be wondering, what the baby “i” in iLASIK means. That small “i” means a world of difference as far as your eye is concerned. iLASIK is “intralase”LASIK, or LASIK with the help of another laser. Hello! I have been away for sometime, but now that I am back I have a lot of news and information for everyone. There are lots of exciting developments in taking care of your eyes. I will be tackling a few of them in the next few days. The first and foremost is the establishment of the [...] Everyone enjoys a holiday, more so here in the Philippines. You might be wondering why I am posting this list here. During a holiday it is next to impossible to find an ophthalmologist (eye doctor) clinic that is open. If you get an eye problem during these days, go to an emergency room or wait for the next working day tp see your doctor. Better yet, have your eyes checked before these days. Most blindness is preventable. Unfortunately, people do not care about this fact until they cannot see it anymore.The Philippines celebrate August as a sight saving month, in the USA its done in May. An interesting finding of the Phil National Survey of Blindness was that last year almost 5% of Filipinos are either totally blind or half-blind. That means if you gather 20 Filipinos, 1 of them has a blind eye. I just finished doing cataract surgery on a 90 year old man. The oldest patient I performed surgery on was a 94 year old lady, but I have another patient who is excited to have his procedure and he is 95 y.o. The last conversation I had with the late Dr Romeo Espiritu (hands-down best retina specialist in the Philippines), he told me about a recent discovery, that our eyes get damaged by BLUE light. You can imagine my shock because I just had my cellphone backlight changed to blue. During medical school, our professor would tell us that we do not need to take supplements. We just need to eat a well balanced meal, he would say. At first glance that advice is spot on. Then you begin to wonder what a “well balanced” meal really is. You see a small black speck floating in front of you and when your eyes try to follow it, it jumps away. Sometimes it looks like ghostly lines or dots that float in and out of your view. It comes and goes. It is annoying and frustrating. If you or any of your relatives have been diagnosed with glaucoma, especially the closed type, there are some medicines you have to avoid. I have found that very few people, even doctors realize that these can trigger a “Glaucoma Attack” if you have a closed type of glaucoma. So chances are you may be taking these already. Run through your medicine list and check for the following: |
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