Tea Tree Oil & Cliradex instructions I have been prescribing Tea Tree Oil (TTO) for my patients, friends, and family members who have dry eye symptoms, foreign body sensation, irritation, chronic burning, rosacea, ocular rosacea. Tea Tree Oil comes from Australia from the Tea Tree Oil plant, though some companies have created a version of […]
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This excellent summary on headaches was written by a friend at Harvard, Dr. Ula Jurkunas. It is comprehensive and will answer questions about what one has to consider when headaches change in character. Headache and the Eye Ula Jurkunas, MD, John W. Gittinger, JR, MD Disclosures Compr Ophthalmol Update. 2004;5(4) Headaches that present to an ophthalmologist
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Headaches in children are common. The first stop for these children will be to your office — to understand the history of the headaches, the severity and nature of the headaches, family history, and to examine the child for common causes of headaches in childhood. But some of these children will be examined by you,
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Oral Contraceptives Linked to Glaucoma Alice Goodman November 19, 2013 NEW ORLEANS — Taking oral contraceptives for more than 3 years doubles a woman’s risk for glaucoma, according to a large population-based study. “This study is the first to document this risk, and it’s important for the general population,” said lead investigator Ye Elaine Wang, MD, from
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Years ago I had an intense disagreement with two Harvard phD friends of mine [one with a phD in Economics, the other with a phD in philosophy: thus a formidable force; they were not exactly screaming at me in Harvard square, but my memory recalls some passionate opinions flying around] about the poison of blue
The study below emphasizes a question you should ask your eyeMD when concerned about retinal detachment risks. Do I have a PVD, Posterior Retinal Detachment. It helps eyeMDs quantify your risk. If you do have a PVD, it means the gelatin inside the eye, the vitreous, has already detached from its attachments to the base
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Floaters are due to changes in the protein composition of the gel inside the eye called the vitreous. It becomes more liquidy with age and forms clumps of protein which we perceive as floaters. If they begin to bother you or if you see a burst of them, flashing lights or a curtain coming over
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Patients with no symptoms and lattice degeneration should likely not be treated unless there is a very strong family history. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2012 Mar 14;3:CD003170. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD003170.pub3. Interventions for asymptomatic retinal breaks and lattice degeneration for preventing retinal detachment. Wilkinson CP. Source Department of Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. cwilkins@gbmc.org Abstract BACKGROUND:
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