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Several factors can determine how frequently you need an eye exam, including your age, health and risk of developing eye problems. As a general guide, we recommend:

  • Children 3 years and younger: Your child's pediatrician will likely check your child's eyes for healthy eye development and look for the most common childhood eye problems — lazy eye, cross-eyes or misaligned eyes. A more comprehensive eye exam between the ages of 3 and 5 will look for problems with vision and eye alignment.
  • School-age children and adolescents: Have your child's vision checked before he or she enters kindergarten. Your child's doctor can recommend how frequent eye exams should be after that.
  • Adults: In general, if you are healthy and you have no symptoms of vision problems, the American Academy of Ophthalmology recommends having a complete eye exam at age 40, when some vision changes and eye diseases are likely to start. Based on the results of your screening, your eye doctor can recommend how often you should have future eye exams.
  • If you're 60 or older, have your eyes checked every year or two.
  • Have your eyes checked more often if you: Wear glasses or contact lenses Have a family history of eye disease or loss of vision Have a chronic disease that puts you at greater risk of eye disease, such as diabetes Take medications that have serious eye side effects

    • Yes, however, with good hygeine you can avoid most infections. Remember the 3 S's of contact leneses. Don't sleep, shower, or swim in your lenses as this will increase your chances of creating an eye infection.

    Yes, Diabetes can harm your eyes. It can damage the small blood vessels in your retina, the back wall of your eyeball. This condition is called diabetic retinopathy.

    Diabetes also increases your risk of glaucoma and other eye problems.

    You may not notice that your eyes are damaged until the problem is very bad. Your doctor can catch problems early if you get regular eye exams. This is very important. The early stages of diabetic retinopathy don't cause changes in vision and you won't have symptoms. Only an eye exam can detect the problem, so that steps can be taken to prevent the eye damage from getting worse.

    There are many corneal diseases, and we can detect them, treat them, and manage them. If you think you have any of theses signs and symptoms, please do not hesitate to schedule an appointment with us.

    With keratoconus, as the cornea protrudes or steepens, vision becomes increasingly blurred and contact lens wear, which is often an early treatment for the disease, becomes difficult. The contact lens may not stay on the eye due to the irregular shape of the cornea.

    A person with Fuchs’ endothelial dystrophy or bullous keratopathy may first notice glare with lights at night or in bright sunlight. As these conditions progress, vision may be foggy or blurry in the morning and clear up as the day progresses. As the diseases further progress, vision will stay blurrier later into the day and eventually may not clear at all.

    Some corneal diseases can be very painful.

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