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Fun Facts About Your Eyes
Babies cannot see color until age 6 months.
If the outer third of your eyebrows are falling out, see your doctor. You may have thyroid problems.
Smoking can cause fine wrinkles around the eyes.
Nearsightedness is inherited.
Polarized tinted glasses are helpful in the sun for sports.
Glaucoma, an eye disease, can occur at any age, from birth to old age.
Your tears provide antibodies to fight infection.
The first inventor of eye surgery instruments was in ancient Persia.
Sagging lower eyelids can be due to medication or aging.
Artificial tears are helpful for your eyes when the air is hot and dry or extreme cold.
Asian eyelids have an epicanthic fold, a slightly different anatomy than Caucasians.
In some major cities in China, there is an incidence of 90% of nearsightedness among the children.
You can have UV protection built in the front and back of your glasses, ask your optician.
Hepatitis virus has been found in tears.
Yellow tinted glasses are helpful at 5 pm and 7 am for sports or driving.
After cataract surgery, your eyesight is brighter, usually within one week of surgery.
Rubbing your eyes is not considered good if you are very nearsighted
(myopic) or if you had eye surgery even LASIK.
There are now treatments for age related macular degeneration that can return the patient to driving vision.
Each blink is 400 microseconds.
You can lose vision when climbing up a high mountain.
Reading your phone all day without a break may give you a headache.
Jumping on a trampoline as an adult can lead to a retinal problem.
If you sleep overnight in your contact lenses, you can have some serious problems. Be careful.
There are female hormone receptors for eyelash growth that are different from the men.
If you see the color red as brighter in one eye than the other, see your eye MD.
The three leading causes of blindness are diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and age related macular degeneration in the US.
At birth, babies only see black and white.
If you let water get into your eyes while wearing contact lenses, you can have a serious infection. Be careful.
African American babies have eyes that darken at 6 months.
Upper eyelid cosmetic surgery is easier to perform and is safer than lower eyelid cosmetic surgery.
Corona virus has been found in tears.
If your eyelashes are falling out, and you are not taking any medications, see your doctor.
Age related macular degeneration occurs usually at age 55: don’t take the eye vitamins unless you have the diagnosis.
The dosage on the bottle may be too strong for you if you are normal.
The dosage on the bottle may be too strong for you if you are normal.
Wrinkles around the eyes are aggravated by sun damage.
Some people have one eye that is blue and the other eye that is green.
Colorblindness is on the X chromosome so men are more likely than
women to be colorblind.
Diabetes can affect your eyes at the same time it affects your kidneys.
Certain parasites attack the eye: pork, lamb and beef parasites. So avoid poorly cooked pork, beef and lamb.
After cancer treatments, the eyelashes usually grow back fully.
Always sunglasses to protect yourself from UV light even if it is not sunny.
You can ruin the special coatings of your eyeglasses if you use alcohol or very strong detergent.
AIDS has been found in tears.
Do not share contact lenses.
If traveling abroad, do not wear your contact lens to swim or shower.
In Europe, Asia and Australia, there are eyedrops for nearsightedness.
Most Caucasian babies have blue eyes at birth.
Diabetic people can wear soft contact lenses but under the care of an ophthalmologist or optometrist.
Your baby’s eye color is lighter at birth than at 6 months.
Diabetes can affect the cornea, the outside part of the eye.
20% of the population have an eye that is not quite round like a sphere, but more oval, this is called astigmatism.
In the embryo, the eye is formed from the same tissue as the brain.
Thyroid disease can affect your eyes.
Washing your hands is important to fight eye infections.
