Protecting Your Eyes from UV Rays

Protecting Your Eyes from UV Rays

Springtime is right around the corner! The warmer weather means we’ll be spending more time outside, which means more exposure to harmful UV rays. Although it’s easy to remember to protect your skin with sunscreen and long sleeves, it’s also easy to forget to protect...
What Is Heterochromia?

What Is Heterochromia?

Most of us notice a person’s eye color almost immediately when we meet them. A striking pair of eyes can make a deep impression, and what could be more striking than a pair of eyes that don’t match? In scientific terms, that’s heterochromia, a phenomenon fairly common...
Spotlight: Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Spotlight: Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Age-related macular degeneration is a leading cause of permanent vision loss for people over the age of fifty. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the slow loss of central vision due to the deterioration of the macula, the part of the retina with the highest...
Tips on Maintaining Healthy Eyesight

Tips on Maintaining Healthy Eyesight

An underrated ingredient of a good quality of life is healthy eyesight. As many as one in six adults struggle with sight-threatening eye conditions and far more than that live with some level of vision loss as they get older. Age is a risk factor for many of the major...
Glaucoma Awareness

Glaucoma Awareness

Happy 2023 from Blumenstock Family Eyecare! We look forward to another year of providing premium eyecare treatment and solutions for Lincoln and the surrounding area. To start off the year, we bring you education and awareness of glaucoma types, risk factors, and...