Teagle Optometry

read moreThere are many causes for red eyes. Analyzing your symptoms may help you diagnose your problem and potentially reach a solution. If you feel you suffer from one of these conditions, please make an appointment for an evaluation at 661-253-3888. We can help give you the relief you desire. Allergies: Allergic conjunctivitis many times presents like dry eyes, but can be a little more severe. Typically, both eyes are involved. Vision clarity is usually not affected. The eyes are typically red, swollen, itchy, with a scant amount of mucous discharge.

read moreAt Teagle Optometry, the most important thing we do is examine eyes. This should always include a careful examination of the exterior and interior eye. As we experience daily, how clear a person sees is not the sole determining factor of eye health. In fact, many unhealthy eyes still display 20/20 vision, and have no other definable symptom. In other words, a person can have significant eye disease and not even know it is there, and without looking neither will your doctor. Unfortunately, these conditions are all to often missed on routine eye examinations due to the fact that the eye was assumed to be healthy based solely on the clarity of a persons vision.

read moreUnderstanding that there are a wide variety of ways to deal with refractive errors (blurry vision caused by misaligned or distorted optical elements of the eye, not by an organic disease process) namely eyeglasses and contact lenses, one must understand that these are merely corrections for the problem not cures. For those who are interested in a cure for their refractive error the discussion then turns to refractive surgery. The aforementioned LASIK is such a procedure. At Teagle Optometry, we are advocates for the LASIK procedure as a viable alternative to eyeglasses or contact lenses.