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The following tips for improving your eyesight offer insights into good habits and actions which will have a positive impact on your visual health.

Although they cannot cure problems such as short-sightedness, far-sightedness or astigmatism, they can certainly help you to correct minor complaints, like dry eyes or eye fatigue.

If you have vision difficulties linked to refractive errors with a high number of diopters, you may find phakic intraocular lenses interesting.

Toric lenses are an artificial solution for vision problems associated with cataracts, astigmatism or presbyopia. Toric intraocular lenses in particular replace the crystalline lens surgically and correct refractive errors, so they can also resolve other conditions like myopia or hyperopia. 

The best thing you can do is to help your child feel more comfortable, make sure they get more rest and that they drink water or other liquids. Your child’s doctor may want to see the child or ask you to keep a close eye on the child, let them know if you see no daily improvement or if they are still not better after a week. Use nasal drops with salt water or saline solution (1 or 2 drops in each nostril) or a nasal spray (1 or 2 sprays into each nostril). For babies, use a bulb syringe suction device to extract the drops of additional spray.

When using the bulb syringe suction device, remember to firstly squeeze the bulb syringe, inserting the rubber tip gently into the nostril and then releasing the bulb slowly.

Dr. Laura Elena Castañeda Ramírez.

Pediatrician, breastfeeding and perinatal mental health consultant.

Head of Pediatric Medicine, Hospiten Cabo San Lucas .

Post cataract surgery recommendations are simple, are easy to follow and help recovery. This outpatient procedure is minimally invasive and does not require excessively complex care.

Oranges, Mandarin oranges and clementines start to ripen in October and can be picked until May. Thanks to cold storage facilities we can actually enjoy oranges all year round, but they are at their very best in winter when they reach optimum ripeness, making them sweeter and even more delicious.

So, having orange juice for breakfast helps us get a great start to the day, giving us energy, preventing colds and strengthening our immune system, doesn’t it?

Yes—and no.

Vitamin C is definitely important for a healthy immune system, but vitamin C supplements are unable to actually prevent or cure colds.

Citrus fruits are renowned for being rich in vitamin C, but do not have the highest vitamin C content of all foods. Broccoli contains twice as much vitamin C than an orange, while bell peppers have three times as much. Parsley has four times as much, though you would have to eat a large bunch to get the equivalent to an orange.

Although it is a common procedure, it is likely that you do not really know how a cataract operation is performed. In this article we explain both the surgical intervention, the prior and subsequent steps and some frequently asked questions about the procedure.

If you are over the age of 60 and have experienced a gradual worsening of your vision, it is likely that the cause of your loss of visual acuity is linked to the appearance of cataracts.

Obesity is considered to be a chronic multifactorial disease, characterized by an excess of adipose tissue (fat), which leads to an increase in body weight and an increased risk of suffering from a number of disorders.

A patient is considered obese if they have a body mass index score above 30 (BMI = weight/height²), and as being overweight when they have a score of 25 or more.

If you are thinking about eye surgery, especially for cataracts or refraction problems, you may have heard about the different types of lenses available today. In this post we explain their advantages and the problems they are used to deal with.