EASY Eyewear in Newcastle, New South Wales | Optometrist

EASY Eyewear

Locality: Newcastle, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 4960 1600

Address: Shop 7,292 Maitland Road Mayfield 2304 Newcastle, NSW, Australia

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13.01.2022 Each week I will write a short article on various eye and vision complaints , how we go about correcting or managing them. I'm going to call it Easy Facts, as well as these articles I would like to encourage people to write and ask me questions about their eyes or the problems they are having with their sight. To start the ball rolling today I'm writing about short sightedness [myopia], this condition means you see better at close distances and not so well far away. the most common reason for this is that your eye is slightly to long, so the light focuses before the retina. The way we correct this problem is to prescribe glasses or contact lenses for distance viewing.

06.01.2022 Welcome to the second week of Easy Facts, this week I will explain what long sightedness [hyperopia] is. Long sightedness is when you have trouble seeing close objects, the main cause for this is that the eyeball is slightly shorter than normal. A normal eye is 25mm in length, long sighted eyes are generally shorter than this e.g. 24mm, so that means that when light reaches the retina it has not come completely into focus and images are blurred. People who a long sighted te...nd to need to wear glasses full time so all images can be focused onto the retina for distance targets as well as near. The other condition I'll talk about today is presbyopia { this means old eyes} this happens to all of us as we get older. Everybody has a lens inside our eye call the intraocular lens, this is the lens that allows us to focus at different distances by expanding and contracting. As we get older this lens loses some of it flexibility so it can't expand and contract like it did when we were young, so when we need it to contract and work like a magnifier it can't. that's why we need reading glasses and also why our readers get stronger as we get older and the lens get less flexible. Next Week I explain simply about cataracts. As always if you have any questions you would like answered send them to me and I'll try to answer them as best I can. See more

06.01.2022 This is the third week of Easy Facts. This week I'll try to explain the condition called ASTIGMATISM. Most people understand that the eyeball is basically round like a soccer ball. When you have astigmatism your eye is shaped more like a football or egg. Almost all people have a small astigmatic defect and are completely unaware of it. The simplest way to demonstrate how astigmatism affects your vision, if a person has astigmatism and looks at a square they will see a rectang...le,if the astigmatism is not really high your eyes own internal mechanism corrects the problem automatically and you still see a square. Astigmatism is almost always associated with other visual problems such as myopia or hyperopia which I've explained before. If the astigmatism is high enough to cause a visual problem that our eye cannot correct then corrective spectacles or contact lenses are prescribed, these are almost always needed to be worn constantly. That is a very basic explanation if any body has any questions I'll be happy to answer them. See you next week. See more