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See clearly with this sweet cure: Study shows honey can help treat dry eye disease

September 27, 2023 - cornea, which starts the cascade of events that leads to DED. Oxidative stress and tear film hyperosmolarity both trigger inflammation in the ocular surface, which causes the death of many eye cells, including the goblet cells that produce mucin. Mucin is a lubricating and eye-clearing agent that also acts as a protective barrier for the cornea. DED occurs as a result of the loss of eye mucin.

Common symptoms of DED include:

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The Dr. Ardis Show: Dr. Seema Nanda discusses the effects of DIABETES on EYE HEALTH – Brighteon.TV

November 21, 2023 - cornea from drying out – and lack of this meibum causes dry eyes.

Aside from the meibomian glands being destroyed, those with diabetes have a higher risk of developing styes (chalazions). These growths are linked to diabetes and the insulin resistance. Moreover, Nanda warned that the eye's vitreous body can be filled up with blood when there is hemorrhage – causing glaucoma and blindness.

Nanda told Ardis that a lot of people are eating packaged items that ...

Woman rips cornea after leaving contacts in for two hours longer than recommended

November 04, 2016 -

23-year-old graduate student Meabh McHugh-Hill was nearly blinded as a result of the accident, but her vision has thankfully fully recovered since the cornea tear.

Stephen Matthews of Daily Mail reports that Meabh realized she had kept the lenses in for too long after watching a movie, but her discovery came too late. "Rushing to remove the lenses, she didn't moisten her eyes before trying to remove them. When she woke the following day, she was unable to open ...

Do you sleep with your contact lenses on? Doing so increases your risk of an infection, says the CDC

November 08, 2018 -

One out of every three contact lens users will readily admit to taking a nap or sleeping without ditching their lenses. Both adolescents and adults are prone to this behavior. In its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the CDC calls this one of the most dangerous yet widespread bad habits of people wearing contact lenses. That's because sleeping in contact lenses increases the chances of developing serious infections in the cornea by 600 to 800 percent.

People ...

Woman goes blind after wearing contact lenses for six months - follow these tips to ensure healthy eyes

July 20, 2014 - naturalnews.com printable article

Woman goes blind after wearing contact lenses for six months - follow these tips to ensure healthy eyes

Amoeba burrowed into cornea

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Covid vaccines linked to organ transplant REJECTION

September 19, 2022 -

It is not that hospitals are refusing to perform transplant surgery on jab recipients, but rather that recipients' bodies are rejecting the organs. Whatever these injections are doing is causing organ transplants not to hold, we are told.

One type of transplant rejection specifically identified in the study is acute corneal allografts. "Fully vaccinated" transplant recipients end up developing a "systemic inflammatory response" post-jab that results in organ ...

Washing your contact lenses with tap water could result in blindness

December 06, 2016 - cornea was so extensive that doctors concluded there was no way to save vision in the eye. To prevent the infection from spreading further -- potentially even into the brain -- they removed the infected eyeball.

Acanthamoeba naturally occurs in most soils and bodies of water worldwide. The space between a contact lens and the eye is an ideal warm, moist habitat for its proliferation. Lack of oxygen behind the lens causes tiny ruptures in the cornea that ...

Your liver is WHERE? Clueless millennials know less about basic anatomy than any previous generation

November 11, 2017 - cornea, lungs, liver, diaphragm, heart, stomach, appendix, bladder, kidneys, pancreas, gallbladder, spleen, adrenals, thyroid, hamstrings, biceps, triceps, quadriceps, cruciate ligament, and Achilles tendon.

The terms listed above were chosen based on how often they were mentioned in an average day, like in health and fitness, when treating sports injuries, discussed on TV shows, and in online searches for abdominal pain. In the test, the only organ that all participants ...

Lasik eye surgery failure drives TV meteorologist to commit suicide due to intense pain

December 15, 2018 -

Before her death, Starr had spoken out publicly about her trouble recovering from the Lasik SMILE procedure. This form of LASIK, which gained FDA approval in 2016, involves a surgeon creating a piece of tissue in the cornea with a femtosecond laser and then making an arc-shaped cut on the surface of the cornea, through which the tissue is extracted and then discarded. This reshapes the cornea to correct nearsightedness, and recovery normally takes ...

Popular contact lens solution recalled due to sterility problems

November 23, 2006 - naturalnews.com printable article

Popular contact lens solution recalled due to sterility problems

Three lots of the solution produced in China and shipped to Japan were found to be contaminated, the company said, marking the second major recall of a contact lens solution this year. Bausch & Lomb had to recall its ReNu with MoistureLoc solution after it was linked to a fungal inflammation of the cornea known as keratitis. According to analysts, the infections leave ...

Three people dead after using eye drops contaminated with rare bacterial superbug

March 27, 2023 - cornea. The patient was hospitalized for three weeks.

She was given IV antibiotics and antibiotic eye drops while also undergoing several surgical interventions. Unfortunately, the woman lost vision in her left eye because of serous choroidal detachment or an abnormal accumulation of fluid.

In the second case study, researchers wrote about a 72-year-old man who developed significant vision loss from an infection of the cornea.

While the man's ...

Woman goes blind after wearing contact lenses for six months - follow these tips to ensure healthy eyes

July 20, 2014 - Woman goes blind after wearing contact lenses for six months - follow these tips to ensure healthy eyes

Sunday, July 20, 2014 by: David Gutierrez, staff writerTags: eye health, contact lenses, amoeba

Amoeba burrowed into cornea

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Researchers: Eyes are a possible entry point for coronavirus

May 29, 2020 - cornea, and the border between the cornea and the white of the eye, called the limbus.

As described in their study, once SARS-CoV-2 successfully latches onto the receptors, it becomes much easier for the virus to infect the cells, which would subsequently facilitate their replication.

“Ocular surface cells including conjunctiva are susceptible to infection by SARS-CoV-2, and could, therefore, serve as a portal of entry,” lead researcher Lingli Zhou ...

Popular contact lens solution recalled due to sterility problems

November 23, 2006 - Popular contact lens solution recalled due to sterility problems

Thursday, November 23, 2006 by: Ben KageTags: contact lens solution, eye health, health newsThree lots of the solution produced in China and shipped to Japan were found to be contaminated, the company said, marking the second major recall of a contact lens solution this year. Bausch & Lomb had to recall its ReNu with MoistureLoc solution after it was linked to a fungal inflammation of the cornea known ...

Simple eye exam can verify whether a diabetic has nerve damage, according to new study

May 24, 2018 -

The research team worked with 82 people, with or without Type 2 diabetes, from Sweden for the study. They assessed the eyes of the participants using a special microscope. Researchers from Sweden, German, Italy, and Norway cooperated to develop a new method to create images in three dimensions of corneal nerves. The eye exam only takes 10 minutes and does not cause any discomfort to the patients. Moreover, the research team also developed an automated analysis program ...

What you really need to know about wearing contact lenses (and how they can cause complications)

December 27, 2018 - corneal abrasion or infection complications, with symptoms such as redness of the eye, blurry vision, eye pain, tears or discharge, and light sensitivity.

Corneal abrasions: Corneal abrasions, or scratches on the surface of the eye, can possibly occur because of poorly fitted contact lenses. A corneal abrasion may also occur when removing the lens or getting a fingernail in the eye. Having a corneal abrasion can be extremely ...

Huge study proves drinking and smoking does make you look older

November 19, 2017 - corneae, xanthelasmata, and male pattern baldness. Among the signs, arcus corneae, or a gray-colored ring around the cornea of both eyes, was the most common. Sixty percent of the men and over 70 percent of the women developed arcus corneae. Xanthelasma, or yellow-orange plaques on the eyelids, were the least common.

The numbers are grim

Women who drank 28 or more drinks per week had a 33 percent higher chance of developing arcus corneae, ...

Radio is dangerous, but not 5G? FCC greenlights rollout for 5G tech but reaffirms radio radiation

March 06, 2021 - cornea.

Millimeter waves can suppress immune function and cause excessive oxidative stress, leading to problems such as depression, autism and anxiety.

The most concerning aspect of all this is that people cannot opt out of 5G. Even if you choose not to buy a 5G-capable phone or turn the 5G setting off, millions of small cell devices are going to be installed everywhere because of the way the wavelengths operate. We are going to see wireless antennas on lamp ...

China is killing ethnic minorities in order to harvest their organs, but globalists say America is bad for using plastic straws

October 09, 2019 - cornea and skin to be removed and turned into commodities for sale." The genocide of the Falun Gong is the epitome of pure evil, by anyone's estimation.

Yet, the eco-fascist "humanitarian" liberals only seem to care about pushing their anti-American global warming agenda. According to them, there is nothing worse, nothing more evil than a white American citizen.

As Troy Worden Washington Examiner reports, a recent study even went so far as to blame white ...

Prolonged exposure to blue light from mobile phones can lead to macular degeneration

October 30, 2018 - cornea and lens cannot block or reflect it."

"It's no secret that blue light harms our vision by damaging the eye's retina," Karunarathne added. Blue light has a short wavelength that causes toxic molecules to form in the eye's light-sensitive cells. These toxins kill off the light-sensitive eye cells, which are necessary for vision.

How does that happen? Retinal is a vitamin that is essential for your eyes. Light-sensitive cells in the eye depend on retinal to ...