Are Your Eyes Road Ready? Blinded by the night? At Custom Eyecare, we know that road safety starts with good vision, and that means seeing well at all distances, in all conditions – particularly at night. While reduced visibility at night poses additional risk to all drivers, Australians with uncorrected vision are at an even…
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Contact Lenses and Children
Kids can wear contact lenses in the same way that adults can, and in almost every case, can help on more levels than just their vision! The first group of kids that we’re likely to recommend contact lenses for are young myopes or shortsighted children. When you’re a kid it’s your fastest period of change…
What is Fuchs Dystrophy?
Fuchs Endothelial Dystrophy is an eye condition that isn’t commonly spoken of, and certainly doesn’t effect as many people as some of the major blinding eye diseases that you hear of quite frequently. But we’ve met plenty of patients with Fuchs so I thought it would be beneficial to cover it in detail for everyone…
What is Glaucoma and how can we treat it?
Glaucoma Glaucoma is an eye condition, that can be quite common. It affects the optic nerve at the back of the eye and it is the optic nerve that connects the eye to the brain. We use this connection of the optic nerve between both working parts to get information to the brain about…
What does Myopia mean for your vision?
Myopia or short sighted-ness, is a condition where distant objects appear out of focus or blurry. A myopic eye is unable to adjust focus in the distance, so requires glasses to attain clear distant vision. Up close objects are in focus for myopic eyes, hence the common name short/near-sighted; can see well at short distances….
Tears: Natural and Artificial
Dry Eye and How it Affects You Dry Eye is a condition where the tear film normally coating your eyes doesn’t have the right balance of components to allow the tears to do their job properly. Dry Eye is incredibly common, affecting up to 60% of the population over 50. Although the name doesn’t sound…
How can you tell if your glasses prescription is wrong?
If something seems off with your new prescription glasses, how can you tell whether you just need time to adjust to them or if the prescription is wrong? In this post, we outline how long it takes to adjust to new glasses and signs that your prescription glasses are wrong. What could be wrong with…
Everything you need to know about Orthokeratology
Are you suffering from short-sightedness? Worried about worsening vision? Frustrated by wearing glasses or contacts? Wouldn’t it be great if you could correct your sight, without having to undergo surgery? With orthokeratology you can! In this post, we cover everything you need to know about orthokeratology. What is Orthokeratology? Orthokeratology (also known as ortho k),…
