Visible Eye

Eye Health Issues and Safety

Wearing sunglasses is just one step to healthy eyes. Learn how regular exams, your diet, and other factors can also help maintain your vision through life.
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What Is Blepharitis?
Young male child with blonde hair, blue eyes, and glasses smiling.
Ocular Albinism: Overview and More
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How Meibomian Gland Dysfunction Is Diagnosed
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Treatment Options for Meibomian Gland Dysfunction
Young man with a brown eye who has a stye.
Chalazion vs. Stye: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment
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What to Understand About Meibomian Gland Dysfunction
Mature woman with dry eyes using laptop
Causes and Risk Factors of Meibomian Gland Dysfunction
A doctor in a face mask examines a male patient's eye.
What Is Eye Herpes?
Dry eye symptoms
What Everyone Should Know About Meibomian Gland Dysfunction
Man with a computer and phone holding glasses and experiencing eye strain.
Eye Strain: Signs, Symptoms, and Complications
Picture of one eye with a tear streaming down the cheek.
The Unemotional Truth About Excessive Eye Tearing
Child with strabismus (squint)
Overcoming Squint: What to Do When One Eye Wanders
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Is It Safe to Pierce Your Eyeball?
Woman inserting eye drops.
What Are Diabetic Eye Diseases?
aphakia
What Is Aphakia?
Slit lamp eye exam
How Diabetic Retinopathy Is Treated
Older person uses smartphone but appears to have vision difficulties
Symptoms and Stages of Diabetic Retinopathy
woman with itchy eyes
Itchy Eyes: Causes and Treatment
Oscillopsia
What Is Oscillopsia?
retinal detachment
Symptoms of Detached Retina
Close-Up Of Woman Rubbing Eyes
What Causes a Sharp Pain in the Eye?
Patient after eye surgery talks to doctor
What You Need to Know About Eye Socket Disorders
man rubbing his eyes
What Is a Blocked Tear Duct in Adults?
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What Can Cause Blurred Vision?
Female patient and female doctor talking, looking at screen.
Thyroid Eye Disease: Health Professionals for Your Care
Pink eye, or conjunctivitis seen in an eye.
What Does Pink Eye Look Like?
pterygium eye growth or bump
Should You Be Worried About That Bump on Your Eyeball?
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Swollen Tear Duct: Causes and Treatment
Astigmatism
Astigmatism Test: Eye Exam and Online Test
Pinguecula in the eye.
What Is a Pinguecula?
bag under the eye women
Why Are My Eyes Puffy?
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Why Might You Be Crying for No Reason?
Mature woman, portrait, close-up of left eye
What Causes Cloudy Vision in One Eye?
For Stye Treatment article
How to Get Rid of a Stye
hypertropia
What Is Hypertropia?
tear duct infection
What Is Dacryocystitis?
Closeup, side view of a brown eye.
How to Manage Posterior Vitreous Detachment
Bacterial pink eye
Bacterial Conjunctivitis (Pink Eye): Overview and More
Nictalopia
What Is Nyctalopia (Night Blindness)?
Blue eye with dilated pupil
What Causes Dilated Pupils?
bags under the eyes
What Causes Puffy Eyes?
swollen eyeball
Causes and Treatments for a Swollen Eyeball
Ophthalmologist doctor with the snellen chart
Symptoms of Astigmatism
Stye inside eyelid
Stye Inside the Eyelid: Overview and More
tears
Watery Eyes: Overview and More
Woman driving a car with dirty windshield at night inside a tunnel. Detail of hand on the wheel in the dark, surrounded by colored and blur lights
What Is Night Blindness?
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Check out these remedies for puffy eyes
Pink Eye
How Long Is Pink Eye Contagious?
eye floaters
What Causes Eye Floaters?
For What Causes a Stye?
Styes: Causes and Risk Factors
color blindness test
What Is a Red-Green Color Blind Test?
Farsightedness
What Is Farsightedness (Hyperopia)?
Eye with a red bump (stye) on the inner corner of the upper lid.
What to Know About Stye Signs, Symptoms, and Complications
Man takes photo with phone on rock empire
What Do Color-Blind People See?
Viral conjunctivitis is highly contagious.
What You Should Know About Viral Conjunctivitis
Mature women on a medical appointment with ophthalmologist
What Is Posterior Vitreous Detachment (PVD)?
eyelid pain
What Causes Eyelid Pain?
Double Vision
What Causes Double Vision?
A finger pointing to a stye on a woman's lid. Also, a stye on the other lid as well.
Can You Spread Eye Styes?
Close-Up Of Woman Putting Drop In Eye
Home Remedy for Pink Eye