#208: Help for Eye Allergies
Spring brings a burst of colors and fragrances, but for many, it also marks the onset of ocular allergy symptoms. Itchy, watery eyes and incessant sneezing can make enjoying the season a challenge. However, with a few proactive steps, you can alleviate these symptoms and embrace the beauty of spring with clarity and comfort.
How do you know if it's an allergy?
There are a couple of symptoms that are the same between dry eyes and allergies so it can be hard to distinguish between the two problems. However, timing seems to play a big part in ocular allergies. If you suddenly notice the symptoms below, it's most likely to be allergy.
- redness
- watering
- Itching - this is the hallmark sign of allergy
- Eyelid swelling
- Mucus or stringy discharge
- Topical antihistamine eye drops improve sym ...
#199: Your Holiday Shopping Guide, aka your Personal Wish List
The 2023 gift guide for the holidays so that you can get all of your friends with red, sensitive eyes, the best gifts to pamper them this holiday season.
#1) Eyes are the Story Mascara
Now, this is a box of three mini mascara wands. I really love this mascara. It is my favorite. The three mini wands keeps the brush and tube clean. You replace these wands every month. Less bacteria stays in the mascara tube to grow since you dispose of it so often.
Instead of using the big tubes of mascara which you throw out every three months, you get three smaller tubes that you'll replace once a month.
The mascara is formulated with a creamy texture, and it doesn't flake. I find that this mascara lasts all day and it's a nice dark black color. I love it.
#2) twenty/twenty beaut...
#149: How to Wear Contacts when you Have Spring Allergies
Next week is the official start of Spring. Woohoo!
I couldn't wait for this day to get here. As a dry eye sufferer myself, I have a harder time dealing with artificial heat and that lack of moisture in the air than I do with pollen.
However, if you're an allergy sufferer, you may be hiding inside today. I want to go over three ways to help you wear your contact lenses during the spring season. The three ways to continue wearing contact lenses even though it's allergy season are: prevent, cleanse and dispose.
No. 1) Prevent
Prevent the pollen from getting in your eyes. You could do this as simply as wearing sunglasses. This would mean that any time you're outdoors, you wear sunglasses. Utilizing a style with side shields would prevent wind, pollen, and dust from getting into your eye...
#148: Mardi Gras Masquerade: What if it's not "Just My Allergies"?
Happy Mari Gras!
It's Mardi Gras season here in Louisiana. And, Mardi Gras season gives the folks here in Louisiana one more thing to celebrate. There are parties, parades, masquerade balls, and lots of fun to be had. Everyone likes to get dressed up for it and wear beaded necklaces and fun masks.
Since there is a lot of masquerading going on, it's the perfect time to talk about an eye condition that often masquerades as dry eyes - seasonal allergies. Or, I should say that allergies sometimes aren't the cause of your symptoms and it's really dry eye that's the underlying problem.
My patients often come in to see me and talk to me about symptoms of redness and watering. Then, they down play the symptoms by stating, "It's just my allergies". That's how it masquerades. A symptom that...
#147: How to Prevent Snow Blindness
This week, I'm going to talk to you about something that probably, you never thought someone from Louisiana would teach you about. It's something called snow blindness. It can occur when you go outdoors and you enjoy yourself for the day when there's snow on the ground and you didn't protect your eyes properly.
When we go outdoors on a cold day I'm sure you've put on your long Johns, so your legs will be nice and warm. You put on your winter boots, you put on your coat, you put on your hood, you put on your gloves, and finally you go outside and you enjoy yourself all day. You've protected your body, but you forgot one crucial thing because maybe it was also cloudy. You didn't wear eye protection with an Ultra Violet (UV) blocker.
And the next day, when you wake up, your eyes are r...
