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If you have Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, you know that you have to keep track of your blood sugar levels. Among the risks you live with if you have diabetes include increased risks of heart disease, limb damage, and problems with your eyesight. Glaucoma, the second-most common cause...

You might remember your parents or grandparents always using reading glasses to check small print or see fine details. As you age, the structures of your eyes change over time. Typically, most people start needing to use reading glasses at some point to compensate for lost flexibility in and around...

Lots of factors can leave your eyes feeling dry, itchy, and irritated. Changing weather conditions or additional back to school and office screen time demands could be the cause of your dry eye problems. To resolve your dry eye problems this fall and winter, get in touch with the expert...

Are you sick and tired of your glasses or contacts? Ready to be able to open your eyes in the morning and see clearly, without the need for vision aids? LASIK eye surgery can correct vision for patients with myopia or hyperopia. After you heal from your LASIK procedure, you...

Millions of people around the United States have been diagnosed with glaucoma, a disease affecting your eyes that can threaten your sight. If you have glaucoma, you need prompt diagnosis and treatment to protect you from degenerative vision impairment or eventual blindness. In many cases, surgical treatment can work to...

Now that summer is here, we’re all ready to spend as much time as possible having fun in the sun. However, the team at Smart Eye Care wants to remind you it’s important to protect your eyes from the harmful effects of too much sun exposure. Our expert care team...

Do you experience disruptions of your vision when you look at something bright? If you have small particles of debris in the interior of your eyes, you’ll see them in bright lights, or when you look at something very white. Floaters can look like bubbles, spider webs, or even seem...

Eye infections can present with uncomfortable or inconvenient symptoms, like redness, pain, discharge, and increased sensitivity to light. If you have an eye infection, harmful bacteria, viruses, or fungi invade your eyeball area, causing discomfort and reactions. At Smart Eye Care in Brooklyn, New York, our team can help you...

Everyone experiences dry, uncomfortable eyes once in a while due to wind, allergies, or staring at a computer for too long. For others, this condition happens on a chronic basis because their eyes don't produce enough tears or the right type of tears. Almost 5 million people in the United...

It’s easy to fear the worst when you have glaucoma, especially since it’s the second leading cause of blindness worldwide. But having glaucoma doesn’t guarantee vision loss. Glaucoma describes a variety of eye conditions that can damage your optic nerve. Your optic nerve plays a crucial job in your ability...

Cataracts are common, especially as you get older. More than 25 million Americans have a cataract, and researchers estimate that number will increase to 38.5 million by 2032 and 45.6 million by 2050. Cataracts are increasingly prevalent among older people, with an estimated 1 in 5 adults over 65 dealing...

Blurry vision, eyeglass prescriptions that constantly change, and impaired night vision are signs that you may have keratoconus, a rare eye disease that leads to degeneration of your corneas.  Often keratoconus presents as nearsightedness that can be corrected with glasses. But, over time, as the condition worsens, glasses eventually fail...

November is National Diabetes Month in the United States. Diabetes is a growing health concern that affects more than 30 million people across the country, according to a report available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC also estimates that another 80 million Americans have prediabetes...

What do you see when you wake up? If life is a blur until you find your glasses or put in your contacts, you may want to consider LASIK eye surgery. LASIK, short for laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis, is the most common type of laser refractive surgery. First approved by...

The short answer is, well, yes. But only in the short-term. A study published in June in JAMA Ophthalmology examined the vision-related effects of eating dark chocolate vs. those of eating milk chocolate. This study demonstrated that eating dark chocolate significantly improved small-letter contrast sensitivity (the ability to distinguish a...

You’ve probably heard the horror stories of people leaving their contact lenses in so long that the lenses glued themselves to their eyes, or allowed an infection to rage unchecked behind the lenses, causing blindness. While we’d like to say that these stories are untrue, the fact is that if...

Dry eyes are almost always a serious problem because burning, itchy, sensitive eyes affect every aspect of your daily life. But dry eyes can become a truly serious condition that ultimately causes vision loss, which is why you should call us at Smart Eye Care for prompt treatment, even if...

Wearing Contacts With Astigmatism: What You Should KnowBeing told you have an astigmatism in one or both of your eyes is nothing to fear. After all, most people have some degree of astigmatism, and many are actually born with the condition.An astigmatism usually means the cornea of your eye has...