4 Ways to Maintaining Your Healthy Vision | Six One Six Vision Center

Your eyes provide you with your sense of sight, but they are also some of the most fragile and vulnerable parts of your body. This is why Six One Six Vision Center, your local optometrist, emphasizes the importance of maintaining your eye health. In celebration of Healthy Vision Month this May, we share four ways to take care of your eyes.

Know Your Family History

Heredity is a common risk factor for many eye diseases, making it an important element in establishing your risk of acquiring a certain condition. If your parents have refractive errors, for example, you’re more likely to have them yourself. Being aware of your family history can help us create an individualized and more effective eye care plan.

Have Comprehensive Eye Exams Regularly

Your trusted eye doctor recommends undergoing comprehensive eye exams routinely. This is the most reliable way to identify eye conditions early, especially since some of them are asymptomatic. We may apply eye drops to dilate your pupils so we can easily assess your eye structures and check if they are functioning well. We may also evaluate your visual acuity, color vision, and depth perception abilities. Rest assured we’ll explain every step for your understanding and to lessen your anxieties.

Observe a Healthy Lifestyle

We recommend eating nutritious foods daily, like citrus fruits and green, leafy vegetables. They contain various minerals and vitamins that help maintain your eye health. We also suggest exercising regularly to ensure proper blood flow to your eyes. This way, you’ll have adequate oxygen and nutrient delivery to your eye structures.

Use Proper Eyewear Always

We may recommend using prescription eyewear as part of your eye care treatment if we find refractive errors during your eye exam. Make sure to wear them regularly to ensure your viewing ease as you go about your daily tasks. We also advise using sunglasses with UV protection features since these months bring stronger solar radiation. Don’t forget to use proper safety eyewear as well when performing high-risk activities or participating in contact sports.

For more tips on maintaining your visual health, call us at (208) 514-1858 or complete our form. We serve Boise, Eagle, and nearby Idaho areas.

COVID-19

To our Six One Six Vision Center Families,

Our office is fully open to serve your eye care needs. We cannot wait to see you in our office again! With the health and safety of our team and patients at the forefront of our minds, the following changes have taken place while we all do our part to fight this pandemic:

We ask that if you are experiencing a fever, shortness of breathe, or a cough that you reschedule your visit at this time.

We are asking our patients to complete as much of the typical intake paperwork and collecting of insurance information electronically to reduce the amount of team members they need to be exposed to at the office.

We have very strict cleanliness procedures for anyone who comes in to our office at every point of their visit to lower risk of potential infection.

Now more than ever, we need to take care of ourselves, our families, and our communities as best we can, while practicing safe social distancing recommendations. We will get through these difficult times together, and I promise you our office and our team will be here to support you as best we can during these changes, and will be even stronger once we can return to normal care.

Be well, stay strong, take care of each other.

– Six One Six Vision Center Team

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