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Practical Hints On Child Care



When looking to buy children clothing, it’s important to know that children clothing come in different ranges and designs. You can find children’s clothing that serves any function you may have in mind. Whether it’s a boy with an adventurous streak or a girl with a penchant for climbing trees, you can’t run out of dress options for your kids.

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Eye Health: Worry or Take Action?



A recent survey found that, among middle aged people, vision health was one of the most important health concerns. 78% of the people who responded said that they were concerned about their eyes and their vision. They worried about losing their vision, too, with worries about vision health coming in just behind cancer and heart [...]

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Winter Eye Health



Crisp snow, clear skies, maybe a bit of skiing or snowboarding — that’s what winter weather means to a lot of us. As you make your plans for winter holidays, don’t forget that all those things come with a real potential for sun damage to the eyes. In summer, we get the habit of carrying [...]

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Gamers’ Eye Health



Video games are bad for your eyes — or are they? The 59% of Britons who play video games (or at least the 35% who play them daily) often suffer from Computer Vision Syndrome, or CVS, a repetitive stress disorder that’s something like carpal tunnel syndrome of the eyes. The intense visual focus required for [...]

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Eye Allergies



Seasonal allergic conjunctivitis is what the docs call eye allergies. They can come along with sneezing, headaches, coughing, and all the rest of the things that collectively make up hay fever. Whether it hits us in the spring or the fall, about 25% of us get red, itchy, swollen eyes with seasonal allergies. One of [...]

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Cat Eye Sunglasses for Fall 2011



You may wear eyeglasses just so you can see and sunglasses to protect your eyes from keratitis, but you still want to look chic, right? This fall, after a couple of seasons of geek chic hornrims and Harry Potter circles, the new shape for eyeglasses and sunglasses alike heralds a return to glamour. Cat eye [...]

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Aviator Sunglasses



In 1938, Ray-Ban developed aviator sunglasses for — well, for aviators. Pilots needed a little more protection from the glare of the sun, and the special shape of the lenses kept the glare from affecting the razor-sharp vision needed by the aviators. By 1939, people had so fallen in love with the aviator sunglasses that [...]

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Exciting Possibilities for Contact Lenses



Look at something close and your eyes focus at close range so you can see it clearly. Look up and your eyes automatically focus at a further distance so you can see into the distance clearly. We experience this every day: a musician looks at her music and then up at the conductor; a worker [...]

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Make Up and Eye Health



If you’re one of the three million Britons wearing contact lenses, or the 61% that wear eyeglasses (some use both), then you probably pay some attention to eye care. You visit your optician, or use an online eye test to help you track changes in your vision. You keep your lenses clean and remember not [...]

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Contact Lens Care: Does Age Matter?



Who takes care of their contact lenses best? The sensible middle aged lens user, conscious of the possibility of losing his or her sight without proper care, or the reckless youth staying out late at clubs and forgetting all about proper lens care? An American study showed surprising results: the age group that best follows [...]

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