Fact or Fiction: Carrots promote healthy vision
A lot has been said since our childhood that eating carrots will improve your vision or help to maintain healthy eyes. However, many equally wonder if there is any grain of truth in this fact or has it always been a clever ploy of parents to feed veggies to their vegetable-adverse children. A valid argument […]
Top 5 Tips for Eye Care
Taking care of your eyes carries a powerful built in motivation. If you neglect this, your eyes may age poorly and your vision may suffer terrible. If you neglect this, your eyes may age poorly and your vision may suffer terribly. Worse still, your eye health can be a barometer of your overall health — […]
The Danger of Changing Iris Color Surgery in Other Countries
For years, colored contact lenses have provided people the option to change the color of their eyes into any color that they want from blue, green, ice gray, purple and even a rainbow color. Colored contact lenses, however, are only temporary. For those who want to change their eye color permanently, a new procedure called […]
What is Color Blindness?
Do you have difficulty telling if objects appear as the color red or green, yellow, or blue? Or do other people tell you you matched certain colors wrong? If yes, then you may have color blindness. What is color blindness? The term color blindness can be misleading. It is not blindness, but rather the lack […]
December is Safe Toys and Celebration Month
Sugarland Eye & Laser Center would like to wish everyone happy and safe holidays during Safe Toys and Celebration Month! Everyone is looking forward to the season as December is the time of year when we get together with family and friends for fun and festivities and also to exchange gifts. But did you know […]
What is the best TV resolution for the eyes?
Oh the joys of buying a new TV. So many options and so many things to consider that by the time we buy one, we have convinced ourselves that it is definitely worth our money. With the ultra-high definition, who can argue? The technology along makes it all worth the additional hundreds of dollars, right? […]
Here’s an Invitation from Sugarland Eye and Laser Center to Have Turkey Eyes
Did you know that turkeys have some of the best vision in the animal kingdom? It’s true. If you live on a farm and have one or several turkeys then you know just how fast they react to movements. Although they are social animals, they are easily spooked. That is because they can see even […]
Diabetes and Eye Problems
As 2012, 9.3% of the US population is suffering from diabetes. Among the elderly or those who are 65 years and older, 25.9% has the condition. Along with other conditions, blindness and eye problems are associated with diabetes. In recognition of Diabetic Eye Disease Awareness Month, here are some facts about diabetes and its associated […]
Facts About Pink Eye
Pink eye facts *Also called conjunctivitis, pink eye can be caused by infectious or non-infectious diseases. *And infected eye is highly contagious and pink eye can be caused by bacteria or virus. *The spread of this condition can be prevented by avoiding contact with infected people and by practicing good hygiene. *Non-infectious conditions can be […]
Post Surgery Contact Lenses
Even after LASIK surgery or any other refractive procedure, if you did not get the results you expected then you may be recommended other procedures such as gas permeable (GP) or hybrid contact lenses. These procedures also help improve clarity of vision. These options are considered when people are not suitable candidates for an enhancement […]
