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All Childhood Articles

These articles are all related to Children. Please feel free to filter by age range.

Eye Exams (School-Aged Children)

Why are eye exams for children important? 1. A full eye exam can check your child’s vision and eye health more than a store sight ...

Eye Exams (Infants and Preschoolers)

Regular eye exams play an important part in ensuring the health of you and your family. What can a doctor of optometry do for my ...

Foreign Objects in the Eye

What do you do if you have a foreign object in your eye?Rinse out your eye with the foreign object immediately. Many workplaces will have ...

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Looking after Eye Health – School-Aged Children

How to spot if your child has vision-related problems A vision-related problem may cause some or none of these symptoms: headaches or irritability avoidance of ...

Looking after Eye Health – Infants

Eye Health of Infants (six months or younger) Newborns have all the ocular structures necessary to see, although these are not yet fully developed. At ...

Eye Coordination Difficulties

What is eye coordination? Eye coordination is the ability of both eyes to work together as a team. Each of your eyes sees an ever ...

Looking After Eye Health – Preschoolers

How can I help my child? Between ages one and two, it’s important for a child to develop good hand-eye coordination and depth perception. There ...

Eye Exam vs Sight Test

In some provinces, a number of optical stores offer sight tests, or vision tests, which use automated machinery. However, a sight test is not a ...

Colour Deficiency

What is colour deficiency? Colour deficiency occurs when your ability to distinguish colours and shades is different from normal. Colour deficiency is more common in ...

Amblyopia (Lazy Eye)

What is lazy eye (amblyopia)? Lazy eye (amblyopia) is the term used when the vision in one eye is reduced because the eye and brain ...

Allergies (Children)

How common are allergies among children? Many children are affected by ongoing allergies, which may become severe enough to affect their daily activities. However, children ...

Strabismus (crossed eyes)

What is strabismus? Strabismus is often called wandering eye or described as being crossed eyed. It is a condition where one or both of your ...

All Adult Articles

These articles are all related to Adults. Please feel free to filter by age range.

How to Remove Your Soft Contact Lenses

Taking your contact lenses out can be scary the first time you do it. It won’t be long before you get the hang of it ...

Halos

Symptoms & CausesIf you see colourful lights in your line of vision, they are called “Halos”. There are several reasons for them. At night, Halos ...

Sore Eyelids

Condition & Symptoms Also called “edema”, sore or swollen eye lids are common and have numerous causes. The swollen eyelid condition may range from mild to ...

Eyesafe Programs

A Doctor of Optometry is educated, clinically trained, and licensed to deliver the best standard of comprehensive primary eye care. In addition to diagnosing and ...

Urgent Care

What are the most common urgent eye care issues? Doctors of Optometry provide urgent eye care for issues including: infections (ie. pink eye) inflammation (ie. blepharitis, allergies, ...

Foreign Objects in the Eye

What do you do if you have a foreign object in your eye?Rinse out your eye with the foreign object immediately. Many workplaces will have ...

Looking After Eye Health – Adults

Good vision is about making good choices. What are some easy ways to protect your vision? Getting a comprehensive eye exam every two years We ...

Digital Eye Strain

Research is showing a rise in the detection of visual problems because of the number of hours spent in front of a computer. Uncorrected hyperopia or ...

Floaters & Spots

What are floaters and spots? Floaters (often called floating spots) are small, semi-transparent cobwebs, specks or squiggles that appear in your field of vision. They ...

Glaucoma

What is glaucoma? Glaucoma is a chronic progressive eye disease characterized by a degeneration of the optic nerve. This can lead to serious vision loss ...