October is Eye Injury Prevention Month, so let’s take a minute to consider a couple of common sense eye safely tips this Halloween. Is this how you want your costume to turn out? Horrible eye infection from wearing a non-prescribed decorative contact lens. Ouch! Using flea-market, beauty shop, or internet purchased contact lenses without a proper fitting is setting yourself up for an ugly eye that lasts well past Halloween night. The FDA is cracking down on unlicensed vendors

The most recent Review of Optometry has three news items emphasizing the importance of infant and child eye and vision evaluation– not just a screening done by the pediatrician or school nurse. The first describes how retinoblastoma, a rare but potentially fatal eye cancer found in children, can be detected by the appearance of a white pupil in baby photos. It used to be thought that early stage eye cancer couldn’t be detected this way, but a recent study found that early dis

Blue laser toys have burned holes in the retinas of 30 boys, recently reported Saudi Arabia’s King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital and Johns Hopkins Medicine. These toys, available on the internet, may seem harmless but in fact can cause serious eye damage. So if your child received such a toy over the holidays, you may want it to become “lost”. Just tell Uncle Bob that UPS never delivered. Lasers? No way! #youllshootyoureyeout #JohnsHopkinsMedicine #toyrecall #vision #blindne