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4 Ways Diabetes Can Affect Your Eyes

By Samer Hamada · 6 years ago

Diabetes is a condition that is caused when blood sugar levels within the body becomes too high and can affect people of all ages. There are various side-effects of having diabetes and it is a ...

Ageing and Your Eyes: When Should You See an Ophthalmologist?

By Samer Hamada · 6 years ago

As we get older our bodies age, from our skin and joints to organs and muscles, but our eyes age too. When we are young the lenses within the eyes, called the natural crystalline lens, ...

Eye Sleep; What Is It?

By Samer Hamada · 6 years ago

Many people refer to the collection of mucus which builds up in the corner of the eyes overnight as ‘sleep’, but the medical term for it is call rheum. During the day time we blink ...

World Glaucoma Week

By Samer Hamada · 6 years ago

This year World Glaucoma Week will run from 11th March – 17th March and its purpose is to raise awareness of this eye condition. Here I will go through what glaucoma is and how it ...

Autologous Plasma Eye Drops: What Are They?

By Samer Hamada · 6 years ago

Dry Eye Autologous plasma eye drops are a treatment for severe dry eye disease where conservative treatment is failing to work. Typical treatment for dry eye disease will usually start off with using artificial tears ...

Hydrated or Not Hydrated? - That is the Question!

By Nick Swan · 9 years ago

Most of us know that drinking water is good for us, and essential. Now, there are a lot of human beings who think that drinking water via 20 cups of tea a day is fine, ...