Eye health

Optometrists are primary eye care health practitioners and as such devote over 70% of your eye examination ensuring that your eyes are healthy.

Here are some interesting articles for you to browse, even read, to see how optometry contributes to looking after your ocular well being.

We’ll add to these articles periodically so make sure you revisit us to look for updates.

Blog Postings

Covid 19 and Contact Lenses

Prescribing medicines

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)

Glaucoma

Covid 19 and Contact Lenses

21 November 2020

A short video blog discussing contact lens wear during the Covid 19 Lockdown.

Prescribing medicines

21 November 2020

Optometrists prescribing medicines

Some optometrists can prescribe medicines in the same way a medical doctor can. At our practice we have 3 optometrists who can do this.

So if your eye is red or sore you can come to one of our optometrists for…

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)

21 November 2020

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is one of the two major advances in ophthalmology over the past 10 years

The other is the discovery of Avastin (or Lucentis) – an injection into the eye that prevents the proliferation of destructive new blood v…

Glaucoma

21 November 2020

Introduction

Glaucoma, in its most prevalent form, is a slowly progressing eye condition that causes damage to the optic nerve (optic neuropathy) resulting in permanent vision loss. It has been called the “silent thief” because it can slowly steal …