Why Should You Have Regular Eye Exams?
Most people seldom go to see an eye doctor for an eye exam unless they find things in vision becomes blurry and when the poor vision lead to difficulties with study or work. All of them neglect the periodic optometric examinations which are an important part of routine preventive health care. Regular eye check decreases the possible eye problems and helps to find out early diagnosis. Therefore, regular eye examinations are recommended to everyone to take every two years, especially for those who have any prescription or current problems. The fact is that they are suggested to have an eye exam once or twice a year.
Why? The Reasons are:
Regular eye exams guarantee you a near perfect vision. No matter you are a person who has any prescription or not, you do not want to have any eyesight problems. The best way to make sure that you have near perfect vision is to have a regular eye check, so that eye diagnosis can be found early, thus, early treatment can be applied. This is what we usually refer: to solve the problems in the bud. With eye check, your optometrist will provide you some good advice on the way to maintain and improve your eye health.
Regular eye exams provide precaution to computer vision syndrome. In modern world, a new eye condition called “computer vision syndrome”, for the frequent use of computer either at home or at work places, emerges. Those who have computer vision syndrome often experience headaches, blurred vision, tired eyes, and dry eyes, etc., All of those eye conditions are not in the consideration of eye problems in most people’s views, however, the fact is that they are eye problems. In such conditions, if you take regular eye exams, the eye doctor will give you corresponding suggestions to the syndrome.
Regular eye exams decrease the possibilities of certain eye diseases. Eye diseases are annoying, but if they are identified in the early stage, they can be treated without or no effect to your vision. Therefore, people should have regular eye exams even if their vision is in good condition because an exam can detect early-stage diseases–even if no symptoms are being experienced.
Regular eye exams also have impact on other health issues. Maybe you do not believe that eye health correlates to other underlying issues in the body, tumours, high cholesterol, blood pressure and diabetes, but the fact is that eye conditions have effect on those things. Therefore, eye doctor will usually advise patients to eat vegetables, like kale, broccoli and fish to maintain eye health.
Regular eye exams also are good for eyesight in children. Studies show that one in four children has vision problems, yet nearly half of parents with children 12 or younger have not taken their child to an eye doctor, plus kids always can not express themselves enough to identify a specific problem. However, with the help of optometrists, they diagnosis can be easily defined. Therefore, if you have children, you should give more care to their eyesight, for they are very vulnerable. Actually, children are more recommended to be checked regularly to detect any dyslexia or attention deficit disorder.
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An eye exam and new glasses could improve the life of mother of two
She dropped out of school because her learning impairments were just too frustrating to overcome.
Now, at 32, with a 2-year-old and a 4-year-old, she wants to do better by her children.
She is divorced from a man who also has developmental delays, said the woman’s caseworker. His only income is from disability payments, so he is not able to help out financially. She gets $674 in Supplemental Security Income, $300 in state family aid and a small amount of food stamps.
The caseworker said the woman manages to keep the children in a safe and decent environment. The older child has some developmental issues, but the youngest is doing very well.
Still, as they reach school age, the mom wants to be able to help them with their studies. She wants to improve her reading skills and work toward earning her GED. Even with her impairments, the caseworker believes this is possible and that the mother someday will be able to find a decent job.
“She had a rough childhood,” said the caseworker, who is impressed that this mother is taking the initiative to improve her skills.
Before she can begin her own studies, the woman needs new eyeglasses. The ones she has are three years old and broken, and she cannot see to read without them.
Fulfilling this simple request would mean the world to her.
Community Eyecare Days offers free eye exams to people hard hit by economy
They came away with little more than pocket change, but the thieves who broke into Michelle Swainston’s car last June robbed of her of something even more precious.
They nabbed her eyeglasses.
“I couldn’t see,” recalled Swainston, who could not afford to replace them. Laid off from her job as an auto-parts inspector, she had recently learned she would not be called back to work.
With her income slashed by more than half, she and her husband had just enough left for the mortgage, car payment and necessities.
Then she learned an area eye practice was offering free eye exams to people hit hardest by tough economic times in Michigan.
She called Advanced Eyecare Professionals and signed up for one of its three annual Community Eyecare Days. An eye exam at the Hastings office revealed Swainston, 49, had glaucoma.
The practice provided corrective laser surgery and what Swainston called “the best pair of eyeglasses I’ve ever owned” at no charge.
“These people are so helpful,” she said. “If it wasn’t for them, I wouldn’t have glasses, and I probably would have lost my eyesight.”
Swainston is one of 300 people who have benefited from Community Eyecare Days. Advanced Eyecare Professionals sets aside three Saturdays per year to offer free eye exams and glasses, one day each at its offices in Hastings, Ionia and Lowell.
They are accepting patients for appointments at their next event, Oct. 10, in Lowell.
The eyecare days have been spearheaded by ophthalmic technician Joy Fountain, 25. Growing up poor meant she and her siblings had to be “very, very sick in order to see a doctor.” Her mother would put her own health issues on the back burner.
Fountain, a straight-A student at Godwin Heights High School, attended Grand Valley State University on a scholarship and says in touch with her mentor through the Big Brothers/Big Sisters program.
“This was kind of a personal thing for me,” Fountain said. “I received help through several organizations, and I (wanted) to give back.”
She has had the full backing of Dr. Michael Flohr, owner of the practice. Flohr has made four Lions International Mission Trips to Central America, providing medical care and cataract surgery to people there.
He said he wanted to help people close to home, as well.
“We have always felt we had a commitment to help people in our community,” he wrote in an e-mail. “And with the current economic situation, we felt there was an increased need for help.”
In 2008, the practice gave eye exams to 160 patients ranging in age from 2 to 81 at the community eyecare days.
Of those, 152 needed new glasses. Other medical diagnoses included glaucoma, cataracts, diabetes, retinopathy and macular degeneration.
So far this year, the practice has seen 40 patients at its Ionia community eyecare day and 64 in Hastings. Staff provided more than 100 pairs of glasses and more than $15,000 in services. Others who had recent prescriptions received glasses only.
The practice also offers information on state aid programs, such as Medicaid, and other health plans.
Flohr and other staff volunteer on the Saturdays eyecare clinics are scheduled.
Kelli Worth, who handles marketing and advertising for the practice, said they are happy to do it.
“It really means a lot to everybody who participates,” Worth said.
“They also receive a feeling of doing something for their fellow neighbor.”
Fountain recalls a woman who came in wearing her son’s taped-together glasses. Worse, his glasses were for a nearsighted person, and she was farsighted.
“She couldn’t believe she got new glasses,” Fountain said.
“One person who tells their story and says thanks and is in tears just makes the whole three months of planning worth it,” she added.
Fountain would like to see other practices — particularly dentists — adopt her idea.
“My hope is to take this a little bigger than Advanced Eyecare,” she said.
Worth agreed: “The impact could be huge. There is a lot of dental need out there,” she said.