Eye Conditions – C

Cataracts: Symptoms, Treatment, and My Journey to Clearer Vision

If you’re experiencing blurry vision, glare, or difficulty seeing clearly, you might be wondering about cataracts. I can relate. I’ve navigated the world with less-than-perfect eyesight since first grade, a delightful experience marked by those thick ’70s and ’80s glasses that magnified my eyes. My mom also had lifelong vision issues, so perhaps it was […]

CHARGE Syndrome

What Is CHARGE Syndrome? CHARGE is a syndrome (set of related attributes) caused by a genetic mutation and characterized most often by coloboma (an eye condition), hearing loss, and balance issues as well as a number of possible birth defects and medical issues. Attributes of CHARGE vary greatly. However, most individuals with CHARGE syndrome will […]

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Charles Bonnet Syndrome: Why Am I Having Visual Hallucinations?

Many vision professionals believe that a significant number of adults with various eye conditions, including macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and glaucoma, experience Charles Bonnet (“Bo-NAY”) Syndrome, a condition that causes vivid, complex, recurring visual hallucinations, usually (but not only) in older adults with later-life vision loss. By some estimates, as many as 20-30% of adults […]

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Coloboma

What Is a Coloboma? A coloboma is a cleft or gap in some part of the eye, such as the iris, lens, optic nerve, or retina, caused by a defect in the development of the eyeball. The extent to which a coloboma affects a person’s vision depends on the size and location of the cleft […]

Color Blindness

A vision problem in which a person has difficulty distinguishing specific colors—most commonly red and green, but sometimes blue and green or blue and yellow. Color blindness is not a form of blindness but rather a deficiency in color perception. It usually affects both eyes and is much more common in males than females. There […]

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Cone-Rod Dystrophy

What Is Cone-Rod Dystrophy? Cone-rod dystrophy is a group of more than 30 inherited diseases that, over time, cause deterioration of the specialized light-sensitive cells of the retina—the rods that densely cover the peripheral, or outlying, portion of the retina and are responsible for peripheral vision and vision in low light, and the cones which […]

Conjunctivitis

What Is Conjunctivitis? Conjunctivitis is inflammation of the conjunctiva, which is the thin translucent tissue that lines the inner surface of the eyelid and the outer surface of the sclera, a tough white outer coating, or wall, of fibrous tissue that covers the entire eyeball except for the cornea. Conjunctivitis is usually associated with redness […]

Corneal Disease

Disease or disorder that affects the cornea, the clear, curved surface that covers the front of the eye. The effects of corneal disease vary. Some corneal conditions cause few, if any, vision problems. For example, infections of the cornea can often be treated with antibiotics. However, if the cornea becomes cloudy, light cannot penetrate the […]