What Causes Bumps on Your Eyelid?

What Causes Bumps on Your Eyelid?

Any bump on or around the eyelid is abnormal but most are not cancerous. These bumps are often cysts, inflammatory responses, or buildup of substances in the eyelids.   Where Eyelid Bumps Can Occur Bumps on the eyelid can occur anywhere on the lid, lash line, or...
How to Protect Your Eyes from UV Light

How to Protect Your Eyes from UV Light

As summer approaches, more time will be spent outdoors enjoying the longer days, warmer weather, and, especially, lots of sunshine! While time outdoors is a great way to get active and can be a benefit to health, protecting your eyes from the UV light of the sun...
What is an Ocular Migraine?

What is an Ocular Migraine?

You are sitting at home one quiet Sunday afternoon reading the paper, and suddenly the words you are trying to read blur. Nothing you do helps the situation, reading glasses, rubbing your eyes, artificial tears—the words are just blurred out, almost as if they never...
What is a Stye?

What is a Stye?

Most people have heard of, if not experienced for themselves, an eyelid stye. The painful, red, swollen lumpy bump that always seems to appear at the most inconvenient time.   What is a Stye? Why do they occur? A stye is better known in the medical community as a...