Your Eye Health

In many industries like construction, manufacturing, and others, employers require their employees to use safety eyewear as part of their personal protective equipment, or PPE. Unfortunately, it's not uncommon for workers to avoid wearing their protective eyewear.  There could be a few different reasons for this. The most common reasons…

Itchy eyes are incredibly frustrating, particularly when you don't know what's causing them. I've put together this infographic to help distinguish some of the common sources of itchy eyes, and explain where you should go for help!

No one knows when daily life will return to something we might consider normal. It’s challenging to plan ahead, but of course, the world keeps spinning, and we need to keep meeting our basic needs. If you have a refractive error like astigmatism or myopia, glasses or contact lenses are…

It may sound biased, but I think it's reasonable to say that optometrists are one of the most underused resources in the medical field.  In fact, there’s evidence to indicate that patients often seek help from a general practitioner for eye-related issues when an optometrist could treat the problem just…

Glaucoma is one of the major causes of vision loss in North America. But despite the fact that it's quite common, few people know much about it until they've been diagnosed, and at that point, they may have already lost a good portion of their vision. By educating ourselves about…