Archive for August 2025

Have you ever heard of eye patching? Have you ever wondered what the heck it is all about? A very common type of patching is that which is used in children. There are a lot of nuances that can be present, but the general gist of treatment is to put the patch over the GOOD…

I may have written about this before, but the topic tends to be a sustained cause of confusion. An eye can become inflamed if certain types of cells are redirected toward it from the rest of the body. These cells are often called inflammatory cells, which seems tautological in this context, but their presence really…

For any cornea transplant, there has to be an individual who is the donor. In the April 2025 edition of the journal Cornea, Abhishek Ramini and colleagues published a study related to donors diagnosed with sleep apnea. They found that donors who had sleep apnea provided corneas that had a lower cell count than those…

There are serious eye infections and not-so-serious eye infections. An example of a not-so-serious eye infection would be a common viral conjunctivitis–pink eye. In viral conjunctivitis, it is quite unlikely that there will be permanent consequences and quite likely that the infection will resolve on its own. An example of a common serious eye infection…