Carotenoids and Your Eyes: What the Whole Family Does Carotenoids are the pigments that make a bell pepper red, a squash orange, and a mango yellow. Plants make hundreds of them, and a few dozen show up in the human diet. A small number of those end up i... Aging Eyes Eye Nutrition Vision Health Apr 1, 2026
Retinal Imaging at Your Eye Exam: What It Shows You check in for an eye exam and the person at the desk asks whether you would like retinal imaging today, usually for an extra fee, usually with the word "optional" attached. It is a fair question ba... Eye Tests Vision Screening Mar 31, 2026
Cat Eye Changes and FIP: What Owners Should Know Cats are experts at hiding illness, but their eyes are harder to disguise. If you have noticed a cloudy patch, a color change, or one eye that suddenly looks different from the other, wanting to know ... Animal Vision Cats Pet Eye Health Mar 30, 2026
Something in Your Eye: Safe Removal and Hard Limits A fleck of grit, a stray eyelash, a bit of sawdust. Most of the time your tears sweep it away before you finish blinking about it. When it does not clear, the instinct is to go after it with a fingert... Eye Injuries Eye Safety Protective Eyewear Mar 29, 2026
Cat Allergies and Itchy Eyes: What Is Really Going On You walk into a friend's apartment, and within a few minutes your eyes are stinging, watering and turning pink. The cat has not come near you. That gap between exposure and contact confuses people. It... Cats Pet Eye Health Mar 28, 2026
A Map of Your Eye Exam: What Each Test Checks An eye exam can feel like a series of unrelated gadgets. You read letters, you rest your chin on something, a light shines in, a puff of air arrives without warning, and then someone tells you your ey... Color Vision Eye Tests Visual Acuity Visual Field Mar 27, 2026
Uneven Eyes: What Is Normal and What Needs a Doctor Hold a photo of your own face up to a mirror and something strange happens. One eye sits a little higher. One lid covers slightly more of the iris. One brow arches further than the other. This is ordi... Cosmetic Procedures Eye Irritation Eye Makeup Mar 26, 2026
Preventing Eye Injuries: How to Pick Real Protection Most eye injuries are not freak accidents. They happen during ordinary tasks, to people who were only going to be at it for a minute, and who had protective eyewear somewhere in the house. That is the... Eye Injuries Eye Safety Protective Eyewear Workplace Safety Mar 25, 2026
Mascara and Sensitive Eyes: How to Avoid Irritation Mascara that stings, itches or leaves your lids puffy by lunchtime is a genuinely annoying problem, partly because it can appear out of nowhere with a product you have used for years. Sensitive eyes a... Contact Lens Safety Eye Irritation Eye Makeup Lash Care Mar 24, 2026
The Ciliary Body: Focus, Fluid and Eye Pressure Most parts of the eye you can name are ones you can see. The ciliary body is not one of them. It sits just out of view behind the colored ring of your iris, and you will never spot it in a mirror. It ... Eye Anatomy Optic Nerve Pupil and Iris Mar 23, 2026
OCT Eye Scans: What They Show and Why They Cost Extra Your eye doctor mentions a scan, someone leads you to a machine in a side room, and a few minutes later there is a color-striped picture of the inside of your eye on a screen. Then a charge for it tur... Eye Tests Vision Screening Visual Field Mar 22, 2026
At-Home Lash Extensions: What the Glue Actually Does At-home lash extension kits promise the salon result at a fraction of the salon price, and they are easy to buy. The part that gets skipped in the sales copy is that you are gluing small fibers to ind... Contact Lens Safety Eye Irritation Lash Care Mar 21, 2026