Diabetes and The Eye
Did you know your eyewear prescription may be inaccurate if your glucose level is not stable? if your blood sugar levels change quickly from low to normal, the shape of your eye’s lens can be affected and your vision can be blurred, Your vision goes back to normal after your blood sugar stabilizes. We do …
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Blue Light: Here’s the Facts
What is Blue Light? Blue light is a colour in the “visible light spectrum” that can be seen by the human eye. It has a very short wavelength and so produces a higher amount of energy. Studies suggest that, over time, exposure to the blue end of the light spectrum could cause serious long-term damage …
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Back-To-School with Eye Q Optical
FREE Lenses for Students! Protect your child’s gift of sight. For this month only, students get a complimentary pair of lenses with the purchase of a frame and a free eye exam if a parent is being examined too. Offer ends September 30, 2022. Offer valid for children up to 18 years old or up …
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Hoya “Clear it” Anti-fog Cloth Now Available
Say goodbye to fogged up glasses with Hoya’s ‘Clear-it Anti-fog Cloth’ now available at Eye Q Optical Jamaica! The cloth keeps lenses fog-free for up to 72 hours. Each cloth gives you 60 applications. COVID-19 Tips: How to reduce foggy glasses when wearing a face mask Together we shall get through this. Stay Safe Dr. …
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Tips for Screen Users. Protect your Eyes!
Now that we are more remote, more and more of us are spending an increased amount of time staring at screens. Not only that, but the quality and size of the screens we may be using at home are probably not as crisp or as large as those at work. We are also more likely …
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It’s Child’s Month!
60% of children with learning difficulties have an undetected vision problem and one in four children experience vision problems that are often misdiagnosed as other common learning disabilities. These are astonishing statistics, and we created our “Mission Vision for our Children” program in an effort to provide underprivileged children with the eye care & eyewear …
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Everything You Need to Know about Glaucoma
What is Glaucoma? Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases that cause progressive damage of the optic nerve at the point where it leaves the eye to carry visual information to the brain. If left untreated, most types of glaucoma progress, without warning nor obvious symptoms to the patient, towards gradually worsening visual damage and could …
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About World Glaucoma Week
Welcome to World Glaucoma Week 2022 / #GlaucomaWeek World Glaucoma Week is a global joint initiative between the World Glaucoma Association (WGA) and the World Glaucoma Patient Committee (WGPC), in order to raise awareness on glaucoma. Through a series of engaging worldwide activities patients, eye-care providers, health officials, and the general public are invited to …
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The Benefits of Spare Pairs!
Now more than ever we’ve found our clients seeing the importance of having multiple pairs of frames and have heard many stories of how having a spare pair “Saved my day!” With ever-changing curfews and restrictions, you don’t want to be stuck without your pair of eyewear when you need it most. Still don’t own …
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