Diseases and Disorders
Many eye diseases have no early symptoms. They may be painless, and you may see no change in your vision until the disease has become quite advanced. The single best way to protect your vision is through regular professional eye examinations. Of course, between examinations, if you notice a change in your vision – or you think your eye may be injured in any way – contact your eye care professional immediately. Age-Related Macular Degeneration Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the physical disturbance of the center of the retina called the macula
Bulging Eyes
Bulging eyes, or proptosis, occurs when one or both eyes protrude from the eye sockets due to space taking lesions such as swelling of the muscles, fat, and tissue behind the eye
Cataracts
Cataracts are a degenerative form of eye disease in which the lens gradually becomes opaque and vision mists over. Cataracts in Babies In rare cases, children develop cataracts in the first few years of their lives.
CMV Retinitis
CMV Retinitis is a serious infection of the retina that often affects people with AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) and that may also affect people with other immune disorders.
Color Blindness
Color blindness is not actually blindness in the true sense but rather is a color vision deficiency—people who are affected by it simply do not agree with most other people about color matching.
Crossed Eyes (Strabismus)
Crossed eyes (or strabismus) occur when a person's eyes are not able to align on the same point at the same time, and appear to be misaligned or pointed in different directions.
Diabetic Macular Edema
Diabetic Macular Edema, DME, is caused by fluid accumulation in the macula. Patients with DME typically experience blurred vision which can be severe.
Eye Floaters and Eye Flashes
Floaters are small specks or clouds that move across your field of vision—especially when you are looking at a bright, plain background, like a blank wall or a cloudless blue sky.
Glaucoma
Glaucoma occurs when a build-up of fluid in the eye creates pressure, damaging the optic nerve.
Keratoconus
When the cornea in the front of the eye, which normally is round, becomes thin and cone-shaped.
Lazy Eye
Commonly known as lazy eye, amblyopia is the poor vision in an eye that does not receive adequate use during early childhood.
Low Vision
Whenever ordinary glasses or contact lenses don't produce clear vision, you are considered to have low
vision.
Ocular Hypertension Ocular hypertension is an increase in pressure in the eye that is above the range considered normal.
Retinal Detachment
When the retina detaches, light-sensitive membrane in the back of the eye becomes separated from the nerve tissue and blood supply underneath it.
Eyelid Twitching
Sometimes your eyelid simply twitches.
Uveitis
Uveitis is the inflammation of the inside the eye, specifically affecting one or more of the three parts of the eye that make up the uvea.
