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Nystagmus is a condition where your eyes shake involuntary from side to side, up and down, or in a circular motion. These movements are uncontrollable which can be very frustrating for the person experiencing them, especially as it can also affect your visual acuity. There are around 2 per every 1,000 people who suffer with nystagmus to some degree. Nystagmus can vary in its severity and in how it manifests itself. We’re going to look at the different types of nystagmus, what causes them, and how you may be able to reduce some of the symptoms and effects on your vision.

While we’ve written about a few different creatures before on this blog, we’ve never looked into the vision of snails. Their eyes are on top of stalks and, incredibly, they use the sense of touch near their eyes to help them navigate. While human eyes are typically 24mm in diameter, snail eyes are no more than 1-2mm in diameter.

Technology is progressing at an incredibly fast pace and we rely on these advancements in almost every area of our lives. Just think how often you check your phone for directions, or your smart watch to glance at your heart rate? What about the information boards in train stations? And now, imagine that all of this information was displayed on a contact lens that you’re wearing on your eye.

Earlier this year, we treated the wonderful Ginny Lemon with LASIK surgery. Ginny is a singer-songwriter and drag artist who had relied on glasses for more than 20 years. With such a busy lifestyle involving lots of TV work, travel and performing, they found glasses were a huge inconvenience. They visited our Birmingham clinic a few months ago and, once they were found suitable for laser eye surgery, they started their journey to clear vision with us.

We’ve just had the long-awaited four day weekend to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, celebrated with street parties up and down the country. For many people, it was as much about indulgence as it was about paying tribute to our monarchy. Pubs and bars saw incredible trade from the Thursday to Sunday, and parties, concerts and festivals were held all over.

With the four day weekend just round the corner, plenty of us are looking at ways to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. You may have heard about the competition to find a new national pudding to celebrate this momentous occasion and it just so happens that the competition crowned its winner, Jemma Melvin, who created the most stunning lemon trifle...

With summer just around the corner, we’re more likely to spend time outside over the coming months. The good news is that this is a brilliant lifestyle change for our eyesight and eye health, as being in the great outdoors has a number of benefits in these areas. The positive impact on our eyes occurs for a number of reasons. When we’re outside, we’re able to focus our eyes on objects in the far distance, helping to prevent the onset of myopia and reduce headaches. Being outdoors and around plants also means we’re experiencing better quality air, while the colour green has been found to have some positive effects on us too. We’re going to delve into these three areas to break down exactly how being in nature can help our eye health.

May is Healthy Vision Month. Although every day is a good day to protect your eye health, it’s also great to have a time to shine a spotlight on it, and specifically highlight steps we can take to promote healthy eyes and good vision. We’re here today with our top 10 tips for ways to improve your eye health.

We’re starting to experience warmer days and more hours of sunshine now that we’ve entered spring. While we’re all aware of the effects the sun can have on our skin, have we thought much about how it might impact our eyes? Sunglasses may set off your outfit perfectly, as well as making it easier to see on particularly bright days, but they actually also help to protect you from numerous eye conditions that can occur when you’re exposed to too much sun.

Laser eye surgery was originally developed to correct defective vision such as myopia, also known as short-sightedness. Laser eye surgery is a highly successful procedure which produces outstanding results, but that doesn’t stop people from having some reservations about it. Differentiating fact from fiction can be difficult as frightening myths nearly always make a greater impact than the truth...