So you’re getting older, but that doesn’t mean that it’s inevitable that you will lose your eyesight. In fact, maintaining the health of your eyes is a relatively easy process, no matter what your age is. If you’re a senior, consider these 8 ways to protect your eyesight. Know Your Family History Your family’s health history can impact your eyes. Read More →
A Guide to First Aid for Eye Injuries
Whether at work or at home, accidents can happen. When the accident involves the eyes, it’s important to know some basic first aid. The eye is a delicate structure easily damaged by something as small as a piece of grit. Proper treatment following an eye injury can prevent the loss of sight. The following guide to first aid for eye Read More →
How to Keep Your Eyes Safe on the Job
It’s estimated that 700 Canadian workers a day sustain eye injuries while on the job. These injuries result in time lost from work and sometimes, either temporary or permanent vision loss. Most of these eye injuries could have been prevented with a little extra care and forethought. Here’s how to keep your eyes safe on the job. Minimize Hazards Be Read More →
Avoid Firework-Related Eye Injuries
These days, anyone can set off fireworks to celebrate holidays like Victoria Day. Unfortunately, eye injuries have doubled over the past three years due to their unsafe use. Eye injuries accounted for 27% of all fireworks injuries treated in emergency rooms between 1998 and 2004 and 76% of all injuries were children under the age of 14. Half of all Read More →
How to Handle Eye Injuries
Injuries to the eye can be among the worst of things that can happen to an individual. A small scratch has the potential to cause permanent blindness. Regardless of where the eye injury is contracted, be it from accidents at home, playing sports, or at the workplace, it is absolutely crucial to recognize it as soon as it happens. Eye Read More →
The Importance of Using Protective Sports Eyewear
Your eyes are one of the most sensitive organs of the human body. And they become more sensitive in the sports world. So, if you are a sportsperson, you definitely don’t want to lie on that hospital bed for the eye injury caused. Cricket, badminton, tennis or any other game that uses ball, bat or flying objects call for as Read More →
