Bissell Eye Care
The Importance of Early Diagnosis Through Comprehensive Eye Exams
As parents, recognizing when your child feels unwell or needs medical attention often comes naturally. However, identifying vision problems can be more challenging, especially for younger children who might not realize they aren’t seeing as clearly as they should. Infants and toddlers may not have the verbal skills or awareness to communicate their visual experiences effectively.
The Invisible Struggle
Unlike adults, children lack a baseline to gauge their vision against. For them, the world is new and full of wonder, and they may not perceive that their view is… Continue reading
Introducing ALTIUS™ – Contact Lenses For Outdoor Sports Performance
Bissell Eye Care is pleased to announce we are the first optometry practice in Western Pennsylvania to carry ALTIUS™ – a new sports performance contact lens. On land sports or water activities, ALTIUS™ incorporates Light Architecture© and 360 Degree Total Immersion Technology© into a single-use soft contact lens modality to decrease visual distractions. This design allows athletes and recreationists to perform with maximum visual comfort, clarity and quickness under wide-ranging environmental conditions.
The lenses are designed for people who may or may not need vision correction and are available in… Continue reading
Do You Know Your FSA Balance?
It’s that time of year. Have you checked the balance in your Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA’s)? This pretax medical deduction can help you to spend less on your health care while experiencing the maximum tax benefit. There is a catch – you must use monies within the current calendar year to reap the rewards. By spending all of the money in your account before the year-end deadline, you ensure you are getting the most benefit from your hard-earned dollars.
FSA’s allow you to set money aside pre-tax from each paycheck… Continue reading
Technology and Blue Light Overload
Do you find yourself spending more time in front of your computer? Working from home, remote learning for your kids, texting, social media, TV – we never seem to be able to take a break from technology. All that blue light can cause a number of symptoms. The artificial blue light emitted from our smart devices is high-energy and can have some long term effects on our vision.
Blue light is all around us, there are both natural blue light and artificial blue light. Natural blue… Continue reading
Back to School Eye Exams
As the 2020–2021 school year begins parents and school districts alike are making decisions on in-person, hybrid, or remote learning. Regardless of how your children will be learning, this is a great time to schedule your kids’ annual eye exams.
August is Children’s Eye Health and Safety month. As a good rule of thumb, you should have your children’s eye examined by an eye care professional during their well visits starting around the age of three and also before the start of each school year. If your… Continue reading
Color Blindness Affects Learning
As toddlers grow, some of the first things they learn are colors and shapes. When you think about early children’s games such as Candyland, Go Fish, and Uno – they all depend on recognizing colors. Children that have color blindness will have trouble distinguishing between colors, or not be able to recognize color at all. Color vision deficiency, or color blindness, is a hereditary trait that has a 50% chance to be genetically passed down.
As children enter school the problem continues as most grade schools focus… Continue reading
Dry Eyes
Our bodies produce tears to keep our eyes lubricated, and to help remove any foreign bodies. But when the body doesn’t produce enough tears or tear drainage is affected, the result is dry eyes. Dry eyes can be troublesome and irritating. Thankfully, this condition can usually be treated quickly and effectively.
Tears are a mixture of oils, water, mucus, antibodies, and protein that form to keep your eyes comfortable. Watery eyes are characterized by an excess of tears, which can give the eyes a glassy look, and may result… Continue reading
Fireworks Eye Safety
With the changes in outdoor gatherings this year, many large fireworks displays have been cancelled. So that leaves families bringing the fireworks celebrations closer to home releasing fireworks in their own backyards. Each year, thousands of people are injured by fireworks in June and July and almost half of those injured are children and teenagers. Over a thousand of those are eye injuries.
There are certain precautions you can take to prevent eye injury or at least decrease the risk. Even when using sparklers, make sure that… Continue reading
Cataract Awareness – Know the Facts
June is Cataract Awareness Month. Most people will develop a cataract at some point in their life. Cataracts are the leading cause of vision impairment of loss in this country. Did you know by the age of 80, more than half of all Americans either have a cataract or have had cataract surgery?
What happens when you have a cataract?
Cataracts are a clouding of the lens of the eye, which prevents the passage of light into the eye. Seeing with cataracts is like looking through a frosty or… Continue reading
New Technology for Bifocal Contact Lenses
Bifocal contact lenses have been around for many years, but until recently they weren’t very popular. Today, new technology has produced more successful and a greater variety of designs. So if one design or brand doesn’t work for you, another might.
Often after the age of 40 people develop presbyopia, a condition that affects our ability to focus on objects that are near. Think about it. Do you have a separate pair of glasses for reading? Or do you need to wear bifocals to see both… Continue reading