Dr. Peter Jung, OD

Can anyone tell me what is snow blindness?

Snow blindness will make your vision decrease temporarily, but it won't cause permanent vision loss. It is usually caused by exposure of your eyes to bright sunlight that is reflected from snow. In most cases, snow blindness will disappear if you get indoors and have your eyes rest.

Are disposable contacts reusable?

From the name of disposable contacts, you can find it means the contacts just only by its name. It only would use for once. This kind of contacts no matching care solution, it could not strong to use again for the second time. The material will get degeneration two days later and the lenses will not so transparent as before, the degree of comfortable will be decrease at all. The qualities of disposable contacts actually are not good as annual ones. The differences of supporting ability are also the same with the other attribution to the two kinds of contacts. Long time using will cause transformation of the contacts quality of disposable ones. So if the condition allows you to change it in the second day, I suggest you would better follow the rules to change new ones. Pay attention to wearing your own contacts in certain periods. Help yourself with the health with eyes; it is really important for the quality of life.

How to get a black eye without pain ?

Apology. I was short about giving yourself a black eye. It's not like I haven't has bad an idea. But Caroline, giving yourself, getting some else to, is a bad idea. Any of the ideas given can have really serious and possibly deadly results. Watching your sister, as bad as that can be, beats being blinded or killed. What's wrong with going out(side?) with her? Is it taking you away from online time? Just a guess. Best answer is find ways to interest your sister in more time inside. Think compromise rather than a very risky idea that has a problem getting your parents to free you from sister-duty.

Is coconut oil good for your eyelashes ?

First, if you want to have thick and long eyelashes, please keep eye health all the time. Blepharitis, madarosis and distichiasis are all possible to cause loss of eyelashes. Second, take some measures to help with eyelashes growing. Coconut oil is one of solutions. Coconut oil is an edible oil extracted from the kernel or meat of matured coconuts harvested from the coconut palm. Coconut oil is commonly used in cooking, especially for frying and is a common flavor in many South Asian curries. And it also can be used as a skin moisturizer, helping with dry skin and reduces protein loss when used in hair. Honey and ginger have the same function as coconut oil.

Will smoking during pregnancy increase a baby's risk of strabismus?

For each cigarette a pregnant woman lights up each day, she raises her baby's risk of strabismus by 5 percent.Further, the effect of smoking on the debilitating eye disorder may become more potent later in pregnancy.Smoking is a major risk factor to having a premature and small baby. It has also been linked to "cross eye" or strabismus (both esotropia and exotropia) in babies. More recently a Danish study quantified the risk of having a cross eyed baby to 90% for mothers who smoked 10 or more cigarettes per day.

Questions about prescription for distance, computer and reading? Help!

It is not necessary for your wife to have a new eye exam and a new prescription seperate for single vision, because the numbers needed for single vision lenses are included in the prescription for progressives. You just need to show the doctor the RX paper of your wife and tell exactly what you want to seperately, for distance, computer and reading. In fact, a pair of progressives can do all the functions, including glasses for distance, computer and reading, and it is much more convenient to wear.

Has anyone gone directly to wearing contact lenses without wearing glasses first?

I know several people who have always worn contacts and never had glasses. One however, had to stop wearing his contacts because of overuse of his lenses and had a problem getting used to wearing glasses all the time after years of wearing contact lenses. He eventually found that no one cared that he wore glasses and found he liked wearing glasses better than he did contacts.

What are some good eye drops for glaucoma?

The common used eye drops are timolol maleate eye drops, brinzolamide eye drops and travoprost eye drops. In general, you should use the first two or one eye drops, if your intraocular pressure can not be controlled under 21mmHg, or if it is under 21mmHg, but your vision is not in progress when you review, at this time, you should plus the rest eye drops. But you should note that when you choose the eye drops, you should be very careful. Because if improperly use some eye drops, it will deepen the problem pf glaucoma. So before you choose the eye drops, you’d better consult a professional ophthalmologist.

Are all contact lenses disposable?

In fact, not all contact lenses are disposable. Generally speaking, there are three kinds of contact lenses,namely daily, monthly and yearly contacts. Disposable and daily contact lenses means you can just wear for one day. If you wear disposable contacts for more than one day, you are more accessible to infection, oxygen permeability and allergies for the cleaning condition for disposable contact is not as good as that of monthly and yearly contacts. Therefore, if you just wear it for one day you can choose disposable contacts. But if you want to make your contacts more than one day, then the monthly and yearly contacts will be your perfect choice.

Why do people wear red tinted glasses?

I wear pink tinted glasses to reduce migraines, and I have been amazed how much different my life is with only one or two major headaches a year. I have a friend who has a blue tint, to lesson the chance of a fit. so tinted glasses are not always a fashion thing.