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A sample of convergence insufficiency symptom survey. While your kid continues to struggle in his homework and get poor marks in exams, you probably urge him doing intensive revision, after ticking him off for a couple of hours. But sometimes his schoolwork doesn’t improve much no matter how hard you push. Before blaming his mediocrity […]

In the previous blog entry, I have described the symptoms and management methods of the common manifest binocular vision disorders. This entry will focus on the latent binocular vision disorders.

Having good binocular vision is very essential in carrying out different daily visual demanding tasks such as reading, playing sports and driving. It helps people judging distance between objects (depth perception) precisely, and drives the eyes to move effectively and smoothly together. Binocular vision develops rapidly in the first few years after birth, therefore it […]

Hypertension is a common but detrimental cardiovascular disease in modern society. It is defined by having systolic blood pressure of 140 mmHg or more and diastolic blood pressure of 90 mmHg or more. According to studies, hypertension is responsible for 57% of all stroke deaths in East Asians. Hypertension affects multiple organs and tissues’ integrity […]

Age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) is a rather common eye disease. In 2012, World Health Organisation has published a report which pointed out that ARMD was the third cause of blindness in the world.1 In 2010, the Hong Kong Hospital Authority has found that there were about 3,000 new ARMD cases per year and estimated that […]

In 2014, some news reports stating that children wearing ortho-k lenses had 5 times more risk of getting microbial keratitis. In this blog entry, I would like to discuss whether it is totally true or not.

Diabetes mellitus is one of the major health problems affecting the developed regions. It affects the integrity of blood vessels and cause damages in multiple organs. But actually one of the organs that can be severely impaired by diabetes is the eye. There is even a term called diabetic eye disease to describe a group […]

Dry eye is one of the most common eye disorder reported by the patients when they see their eyecare practitioner. Dry eye can affect patients in different severity, ranges from mild irritation to sight threatening scarring. Indeed, the classification of dry eye is more complicated than you think. Instead of trying to self-treat the dry […]

Cataract is a very common eye disease. In 2012, World Health Organisation has published a report which pointed out that cataract was the first cause of blindness in the world.1 In 2009, the Hong Kong Hospital Authority has found that more than 54000 people was waiting for cataract surgery in public hospitals, of which over 42000 […]