Posts tagged ‘eye diseases’

Contact lenses always need careful cleaning and storing. If the wearer has poor health habits, a serious infection named Acanthamoeba may be aroused, which is very difficult to treat. To prevent this bothering infection, contact lenses wearers must follow the codes required by doctors and manufacturers.

First found in 1973, Acanthamoeba has been mostly related to contact lenses, with a 90 percentage. Acanthamoeba Keratitis that infecting the eyes come from the natural occurring amoeba. These tiny and single-cell animals mostly appear in tap water, well water as well as sewage systems. Fortunately, Acanthamoeba Keratitis occur an average of two times among one million wearers. Exception also exists ever found by the US centers for Diseases Control and other researchers. In 2007, the contact lenses solution named Complete MoisturePlus aroused a wide spread worrying about infection. The CDC reported that this product had a seven times risk of conventional products. Continue reading ‘Wearing contact lenses may lead to Acanthamoeba Keratitis’ »

Eye lenses are very important visional organs for human beings. In some ways, eye lense is the same as the apertures in cameras, for the manufacturing of camera is on the basis of eye lense. Only through eye lense can people see objects, because all light reflected by objects will be received by eyes and projected on cornea. However, if people want to see things clearly without the assistance of other utensils, they must have normal and clean eye lenses. As it has been mentioned, in order to ascertain light can go through them smoothly, eye lenses must be crystal without any tints. Notwithstanding, some people have suffered very serious eye diseases for the sake of abnormal eye lenses. On the whole, deformed eye lenses can cause various eye diseases.

Cataract is one of the commonest eye diseases for the sake of eye lense opacity. For the normal eye lense is transparent, and all visual light can go though it. But people with cataract have very bad eye lenses, which are not limpid for some reasons. Some of the light can not be reflected on cornea, so these victims can not see objects clearly. As for cataract victims, their eyesight will get even worse if no remedy taken to their eye lenses. With the developments of technologies on eyes, more cataract sufferers have been rescued. Continue reading ‘Eye lenses and related eye diseases’ »