After Images
Have you ever experienced this? When you stare at bright light for few seconds then you shut your eyes or look into a dark space, you’d still see a brief image (inverted image ) of that bright light or object you were staring at or when you stare at an […]
What vitamin A specifically does for your eye.
Generally, vitamins are useful and very important to the body to perform various functions some which includes maintenance, detoxification and renewing of body cells. We shall be looking at vitamin A specifically. Vitamin A is a group of antioxidant compounds that play an important role in vision, bone growth and […]
Eye care advice for a tear gas attack.
FIRST, WHAT ACTUALLY IS TEAR GAS? The commonly known tear gas is also known as lachrymator (from the Latin lacrima meaning “tear”) which is a collection of chemicals that causes skin, respiratory, and eye irritation. It’s usually contained in canisters, grenades, or pressurized sprays, but do you know tear gas […]
Mirage!
Have you ever noticed something that looks like pool of blue water when driving on the highway on a sunny afternoon? Yeah! It looks like you saw pool of water ahead but you never got to the place where the water was actually. This is called Mirage. The phenomenon […]
Lazy Eye
Do you know the eyes can be lazy? Lazy eye (amblyopia) can be explained as when there is reduced vision in one eye which is basically caused by abnormal visual development early in life, usually from birth up until the age of 7 or 8 years old. CAUSES Anything that blurs a […]
Albino’s eye
When you see an albino, they usually look quite different because their body system couldn’t produce or utilize pigment(melanin) like every other person. Pigment is the material in the body that helps us produce colour, usually on the skin, hair and eye. MELANIN PIGMENT IN THE BODY HELPS US ACHIEVE THE FOLLOWING: […]
Contact Lens: What you think VS What it is
1. CONTACT LENSES CAN GET LOST BEHIND THE EYE It is not possible for contact lens to get into the back of the eye, there is a membrane (fornix) inside the eye that separates the external part of the eye from the internal part, thereby preventing entry of anything into […]
Your Eyes and how they see colours.
Colours are known to enhance beauty, especially when combined together in the right amount and pattern. Our eyes allows us to see colours and appreciate their aesthetics effect. How do you think we see colours? We simply see colours because of light! It is when there is presence of considerable amount […]
Productivity At Work.
Your productivity at your workspace can be enhanced or diminished by the amount and type of illumination( light-source) available at your work space. We all know we only have 2 major sources of illumination – the natural (sunlight) and the artificial (Fluorescent, halogen bulbs, LEDs). The type and brightness of light during […]
Bump or lump on the eye lid.
You must have seen someone has a lump or bump on their eyelids or perhaps you experienced it at some point and you wondered what happened? Here is why? When there is a lump on the eyelid, it could be as a result of the following: •Chalazion – Occurs when glands […]