Eye Health Medical Reference
- How to Care for Your Contact Lenses and Eyes
WebMD provides tips on caring for your contact lenses.
- Lazy Eye (Amblyopia)
Amblyopia is a condition in which one of your child's eyes has poorer vision that the other. WebMD explains symptoms and treatment.
- Retinal Detachment
WebMD explains the causes, symptoms, risk factors, and treatment of retinal detachment, a very serious eye condition that occurs when the retina pulls away from its supporting tissues.
- How to Protect Your Eyes After Laser Eye Surgery
WebMD explains precautions to take after laser eye surgery.
- Protecting Your Child's Eyes and Vision
Tips to help keep children's eyes healthy and protect their eyesight.
- Eyeglasses: Tips to Help You Pick the Right Lenses
WebMD explains different types of eyeglass lenses and lens coatings, along with tips for caring for your spectacles.
- Your Child's Eye Exam: What to Expect
WebMD tells you what you need to know to choose an eye doctor.
- Eye Exams and Vision Tests
WebMD offers a guide to the various eye tests used to diagnose eyesight disorders.
- What Is Presbyopia?
Learn about presbyopia, the natural decline in vision that often comes with age.
- Photorefractive Keratectomy Eye Surgery
WebMD explains laser eye surgery called photorefractive keratectomy, or PRK.
- LASIK Eye Surgery
Information on the laser eye surgery known as LASIK.
- Eye Problems: What to Expect as You Age
WebMD explains age-related vision problems and how they are treated.
- Black Eye Treatment
WebMD's guide to treating a black eye.
- Black Eye: Understanding the Basics
How can you tell if a black eye is a just "a shiner" or a sign of a serious fracture? Find out how to know and how to care for the bruise.
- Understanding Pink Eye -- Symptoms
Learn the symptoms of pink eye from experts at WebMD.
- Stye: What Are the Symptoms?
What are the symptoms of a stye or chalazion? Learn more about these common eye problems from the experts at WebMD.
- How to Prevent Styes
Can styes be prevented? Find out from the experts at WebMD.
- Understanding Styes -- Treatment
Get the basics on stye treatments from the eye experts at WebMD.
- Understanding Astigmatism -- Symptoms
Get the basics on astigmatism symptoms from WebMD.
- Understanding Vision Problems -- Treatment
Get the basics on treatment of various vision problems from the eye experts at WebMD.
- Understanding Vision Problems -- Prevention
Read tips about the prevention of vision problems and eye strain.
- Understanding Vision Problems -- Symptoms
Get a list of symptoms for various vision problems from the eye experts at WebMD.
- Understanding Vision Problems -- the Basics
From nearsightedness to glaucoma, get the basics on vision problems from the experts at WebMD.
- Ocular Hypertension
If monitored, intraocular pressure, or pressure inside the eye, may not lead to glaucoma. Learn more here about the causes, diagnosis, symptoms, and treatment of ocular hypertension.
