Allergy Eye Drops & Pregnancy

If you're pregnant, you may know to question the safety of oral medicine use during pregnancy. But you may not think about topical medicines such as eye drops as having any potential effect on your baby. Eye drops can contain steroids, histamine blockers or mast cell stabilizers that also prevent histamine release.

Sharon Perkins
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Types of Bifocal Lenses

Bifocals began when Benjamin Franklin had the lenses of two different spectacles cut in half and wired into a single frame. As technology has advanced, more complex lens configurations were created, with multiple areas of magnification, called segments, cut into the same lens.

Frank Whittemore
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How to Adjust to Bifocals

Bifocal lenses take some adjustment for many people, whether you start with bifocals or switch from regular lenses. New bifocal wearers might experience difficulty as they move from looking through the top to the bottom of the lenses.

Shelley Frost
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Eye Exercises for Esotropia

Eye exercises for esotropia are designed to strengthen and straighten out your eye or eyes that have been effected by esotropia. Esotropia, colloquially referred to as a lazy eye or crossed eye, causes your eye to squint in such a manner that it is turned inward or down.

Jason Aberdeene
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Strengthening Exercises for Ischial Bursitis

Ischial bursitis, also known as ischiogluteal bursitis, is a condition that causes pain in the buttock region. The pain is from tissue damage and inflammation in the ischiogluteal bursa, which is a little sac filled with a lubricating fluid near the base of the pelvis.

Joshua McCarron
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How to Use a Patch to Strengthen an Eye

Amblyopia, commonly known as "lazy eye," is a condition in which one eye works harder than the other to gather visual stimuli and transmit these stimuli to your brain.

Owen Pearson
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Strengthening Exercises for the Levator Scapulae

Levator scapulae weakness can limit your ability to perform common daily activities, such as shrugging your shoulders or carrying heavy items. Strengthening exercises for the levator scapulae might help improve your posture and relieve pain symptoms associated with muscular imbalances.

Miguel Cavazos
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Exercises to Improve Hand-Eye Coordination

Hand-eye coordination is a fine motor skill that develops in a series of stages from birth to about 7 years of age.

Jackie Lohrey
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