Allergic Red Eye Treatments

Allergic Red Eye Treatments-
Avoid triggers, the most common way to treat eye allergies is to avoid the substances, or antigens, things that are causing your symptoms (dander, dust, grasses, etc.)
- Cold Compresses- apply compresses to closed eyes for 5 to 10 minutes several times per day.
- Chilled Eye Drops- keep a bottle of doctor recommended artificial tears for instillation, it just feels better.
- Prescribed eye drops- there are drops that have both anti-histaminic and mast cell destabilization as their properties, check with your optometrist or visit our website at www.drrsterling.com
- Steroid drops- there are times that steroids might be used to “quiet” the allergic reaction

Diabetes Control

Diabetes Control can greatly reduce diabetic related eye disease.
Diabetes is reaching epidemic proportion across the globe and the United States has nearly 24 million people already diabetic and more than 50 million “pre-diabetes”. Blindness is the most prevalent side effect of diabetes. There are many modifiable risk factors for diabetic retinopathy including high blood pressure, blood glucose levels and obesity. A United Kingdom study showed a slower progression of diabetic retinopathy in patients who demonstrated intense HbA1c control (this is a test which yields the average glucose level during the preceding 3 months (appropriate goal is 6.5 to 7%).

Type II diabetes epidemic

The type 2 diabetes epidemic that continues to sweep across the United States has left an estimated 24 million20Americans struggling with the disease, up more than 3 million people since 2005. Alongside this epidemic comes the wave of illnesses and disabilities brought on by the diabetes (heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, nervous system damage). The medical community is continuing on 2 fronts to “reverse the tide”, by pressing the public to adopt healthy lifestyle changes and trying to develop new drugs to help people manage their diabetes more effectively.

Everything You Always Wanted to Know...

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About
Progressive (No-line) Multi-Focal Lenses (PAL’s) but Were Afraid to Ask
A progressive lens is not designed to have clear vision throughout the entire lens. In learning to wear a progressive lens you must remember that like an hourglass the corridor is narrower in the middle than the top and bottom. To use the middle portion you need to use your nose like a pointer and turn your head slightly to look directly at your object to get the full advantage of the intermediate area. If you glance to either side you will run into the blended area and your vision will blur slightly. To adjust the power between the distance and the near you must move you head slowly up or down which changes the power according to how far away the object or reading material is from you. Generally your near distance is measured at about 16 to 18 inches or elbow distance. The intermediate distance is between you elbow and about 6 inches beyond your finger tips. The far vision is anything beyond the ends of your finger tips. When wearing a progressive for the first time you must tilt your chin toward your chest and look over the intermediate blend to see the floor since it is beyond your fingertips. Sometimes, people who try progressive prescription lenses for the first time have a difficult time learning to look through the appropriate portion of the lens at the right time. Often a simple fitting adjustment to your prescription eyewear by your local optical professional can make all the difference.
In order to use a progressive lens, you must learn to move your head to see things; you cannot just move your eyes because you will be looking through a blurry part of the lens. This is called adapting to the lens. Most people can adapt within a month, but some people never adapt. It is common to experience dizziness and headaches during the time that you are adapting. Getting accustomed to progressive prescription glasses can be difficult, and you must have proper instruction by an eyecare professional.
Because of the relatively narrow vertical band of prescriptively accurate optics characteristic of progressive lenses, wearers may have some difficulty becoming used to the co-ordination of horizontal head movement necessary to retain focus when reading across a computer screen or a paper page. This is particularly true when the reading add power is strong (+2.00 or above). The experience has been described as "moving your head back and forth as if you are watching a tennis match". This can be mitigated by using high quality lenses, and by having your glasses made and fitted by a competent optician who is experienced in fitting progressive lenses. It is also beneficial to avoid the shallow eyeglass frames (i.e. the frames with very small vertical dimension) and choose a frame that is somewhat larger instead.
People who will work with the progressive lenses and learn to use them usually end up liking them.

Researchers identify protein...

Researchers identify protein that may prolong lives of retinal cells
Researchers from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have identified a protein (histone deacetylase 4 (HDAC4) that is naturally produced typically involved in the regulation of bone and muscle development. Researchers found that increasing quantities of this protein to above normal levels appears to protect the lifespan of these “vision cells”. If this finding can be replicated in humans (done in mice) it could someday lead to preventing blindness.

Linking Websites

Over the past few years I’ve been researching ways to increase “market share” and have spoken with many experts in the field. In my quest to find ways to improve my internet marketing I’ve found ways to help any business increase their market share. I've recently learned that linking our websites together will benefit us in several ways.

1: Google values inbound links to a website and uses them in their calculation of a websites importance - so if we all link to each other, Google will rank our websites higher so that when people search for our business we will appear before our competitors.
2: Providing links to other businesses may actually send visitors from your website to their websites, free publicity.

I'm having my webmaster create a links page where I will start linking to your websites, provided you link to mine.
My webmaster provided me with the code. Please contact me and I will e-mail it to you. drrsterling@comcast.net

You can use this, or have your web person use this to link to my site. It will work anywhere on your site, but if you are considering exchanging links with other sites, you may want to create a "links page" like I did. Let me know if you'd like to exchange links. You can do so by sending me your website address and business name. Also, please let me know from where you have linked to my site. In addition, tell your friends and colleagues and please, include me in on that network.

Let's help strengthen our business network and help make each other a little more successful!

Researchers use laser light technique...

Researchers use laser light technique to detect earliest formation of cataracts
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University and the National Eye Institute are using a NASA device to tell if a cataract is “brewing”. The laser light used determines that the alpha-crystalline protein is decreasing which is essential to keep the transparency of the crystalline lens.

Shopping Considerations for Sunglasses

When shopping for sunglasses, many people tend to look at fashion first, rather than function. I urge you to keep in mind that the most important reason for wearing sunglasses is to protect your eyes. Ultraviolet radiation (UV rays) from he sun can be very dangerous, with constant exposure resulting in irreversible damage to your eyes. With this in mind here are a few things to look for while shopping for those new “shades”.
* UV protection
* Tinted lenses
* Polarization
* Photochromatic (changeable plastic lenses)
* Polycarbonate lenses