“While I do agree - this doctor is a pediatrician, not an eye doctor. Try rewetting drops, however if you are still not successful after a few attempts – it is possible that the lens may NOT actually be in eye. It may feel like it - but the eye may just be irritated or something else may be causing the irritation. Best thing to do is STOP, place a few tears in eyes and call Beach Eye Care for help.”

If conventional wisdom says that watching TV is bad for your eyes, watching 3D TV may be three times worse, we're beginning to discover. Doctors and researchers are starting to warn viewers about the potential dangers of spending too much time in front of a 3D boob tube. Guidelines for Samsung's new line of 3D TVs warn against prolonged exposure to 3D TVs for kids (kids under 6 shouldn't watch at all), teens, pregnant women, the elderly, sleep-deprived people and anyone buzzed on alcohol. They also point out that watching 3D programming might cause motion sickness, lingering depth perception problems, disorientation and "decreased postural stability." The guidelines suggest taking frequent 30 minute breaks from TV watching.

Joined by a brave Assistant of the Day, Dr. Oz explores the inner workings of your eye with an Optomap eye scanning device provided by Optos, Inc. He also debunks the popular myth that carrots are good for your eyesight. Instead, try adding spinach and persimmons to your diet.

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In a historic moment for the United States bobsled team, Steven Holcomb piloted bobsled USA-1 to the Olympic gold medal in the four-man event, ending a 62-year Olympic medal drought for the American. Holcomb's heroic mastery of the treacherous track is made even more significant by the fact that not long ago, he had 20/500 vision - "profound visual impairment" caused by keratoconus - that very nearly ended his bobsledding career. Contact lenses could no longer provide the level of visual acuity required for Holcomb to compete. Finally, with the help of U.S. bobsled coach Brian Shimer, he was deemed a good candidate for the Visian ICL. Holcomb said. "I couldn't wear contacts the day of the surgery, so they literally had to walk me around the room. And then they did it, I got up, and just like that, I was 20/20. It's incredible. I call it an eye-opening experience."

His teammates weren't bothered. They'd seen it happen dozens of times.

Holcomb, though, was spooked. Until then, he'd never seen that before.

In a sport that demands razor-sharp hand-eye coordination, Holcomb excels even with a degenerative eye disease called keratoconus that makes reading a challenge - say nothing for steering a bobsled in a snowstorm.

"Sometimes, I really didn't see all that much out there," he said.

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Traditional LASIK has taken the public by storm, but not the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA), who until recently had put the kibosh on any refractive surgery for anyone with space aspirations. All that changed in September 2007 when NASA and the Air Force announced that they were now amenable to Intralase LASIK for astronaut applicants and the Air Force for its Jet Fighter Pilots.

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