Open Your Eyes To Some Important Information

In this book, you will learn about the amazing complexity and sophistication of your eyes and practical suggestions to keep them healthy. You will be guided through the myriad choices in selecting corrective lenses. You will find detailed and easy-to-understand explanation of many eye disorders, some very common, some rare. This knowledge can help you in preparing for various treatment options.

We believe that the more you know about your eyes, the longer you will benefit from healthy vision. And the best way to preserve vision is recognizing the onset of eye problems. Early action minimizes eye damage and greatly reduces the extent and the severity of treatment. Along with the advice of your eye doctor, this book can help you live well and enjoy the immediacy and color of life.
Read the Preface:

So dependable, so functional, so efficient, our eyes connect us to the world. Vision allows us to experience the color, movement and vitality of our surroundings. It alerts us to danger or the unexpected. It helps define us as individual beings. Author Henry David Thoreau expressed it succinctly, "We are as much as we see."

How critical it becomes when something impedes or hampers our vision. Many of us from childhood have had problems focusing on objects close up or far away. The natural process of aging is not always kind to our eyes. Years of wear and tear can cloud the lens or make it less elastic. The retina can lose some of its sensitivity to light. Suddenly, on reaching our 40s or 50s, we find we can no longer read find print without holding the paper at arm's length. Recognizable faces at a distance now appear fuzzy and blurred.

We have means to correct many of the flaws of imperfect vision. Eyeglasses and contact lenses can correct many focusing problems. Surgery can repair a detached retina or implant an artificial lens. However, there are many simple measures you can take in your everyday life to prevent or delay vision loss.

In the pages that follow, you will learn about the amazing complexity and sophistication of your eyes and practical suggestions to keep them healthy. You will be guided through the myriad choices in selecting corrective lenses. You will find detailed and easy-to-understand explanations of many eye disorders, some very common, some rare. This knowledge can help you in preparing for various treatment options.

We believe that the more you know about your eyes, the longer you will benefit from healthy vision. And the best way to preserve vision is recognizing the onset of eye problems. Early action minimizes eye damage and greatly reduces the extent and severity of treatment. Along with the advice of your eye doctor, this book can help you live well and enjoy the immediacy and color of life.