A sty is a small and painful swelling on the edge of an eyelid. An external or even an internal (on the inner side of the eyelid) sty is just like a pimple. Sty occurs when an oil gland is clogged and then infected with bacteria. The most familiar cause of a sty is a […]
How To Prevent Eye Stye
Imagine waking up one morning. Your eyelids feel heavy. Your tears start and you do not even feel like crying. You try to open your eyes and something just holds them back. You get up and check yourself in the mirror. Do not freak out and cry when you see that big, red lump in […]
7 Natural Remedies for Eye Stye
Being sick or having an illness is never fun. Some of us might prefer going to the doctor right away, while others prefer something more natural to cure their illnesses. One example is to use a natural remedy or more for eye stye. But first of all, what is an eye stye? What kind of […]
7 Tips: How To Get Rid of Your Eye Stye At Home
Imagine this: you wake up one day with an unusually heavy eyelid. Not only it hurts, your eye also waters. It is difficult to keep your eyes open. Worst of all, the sight of that extra bump on the lid scares people around you. The white part of your eyeball scares them too that you […]
Does Eye Sty Affect Vision?
When you first hear the popular idiom “a beautiful sight for sore eyes”, do not completely believe that. The truth is, it is quite a challenge to look at anything beautiful with sore eyes. One of the causes for that is called eye stye. Still, how bad does eye stye affect your vision? Before we […]
Eye Sty Causes & Symptoms
What is Sty? A sty is an infection on the eye area that causes lid lump. This condition, however, is often confused and mistaken with chalazion. Although they look alike, sty and chalazion are totally different. A stye is an infection that causes a soft, red bump on the eyelid. Most styes occur along the […]
Will Amblyopia Cause Blindness?
Amblyopia refers to a condition wherein a reduced vision presents in one eye that has not received adequate use during early childhood or infancy. Amblyopia happens when the eyes have different ability to focus and perceive images. Various researches state that it is estimated that two to three percent of worldwide population is suffering from […]
Symptoms of clogged tear duct in infants
Why blocked tear duct common in infants? Blocked tear ducts mostly affects newborns during their first year of life. Worldwide, 6 out of 100 infants suffer from blocked tear ducts in their early age. As their tear duct is blocked, the result is watery eyes and crusted drainage after overnight sleeping. In most cases, it […]
Can Amblyopia be Corrected with Lasik Surgery?
Amblyopia occurs when the brain prefers to choose optic signals to one eye compared to another one. Two primary causes of amblyopia include strabismus—misalignment of the eyes and certain degree of refractive errors. Because of these two conditions, the brain sends optic signal merely to one eye, ignoring the weaker one that gradually this ignored […]
How Long does it take for a Lazy Eye to go away?
Amblyopia is an eye disorder which involves poor visual ability of one eye, due to its limited communication with the brain. With amblyopic eyes, the brain does not send any optic signals to the affected eye and instead, merely send them to the stronger, unaffected eye. When the problem is left untreated, the brain keeps […]