Videos

A helpful step-by-step guide on how to take photos of your eye, should you need them examined remotely by your optometrist. This guide shows you how to take the six images your optometrist will require. Find out how to access emergency eye care.

Here Ian Cameron, of Cameron Optometry in Edinburgh, shares his tips on how to help your child (and you!) avoid digital eyestrain. Following these suggestions may also help your child avoid developing myopia (short-sightedness). Parents regularly debate how much screen time their children should have for numerous reasons, one of which may be their concern for their vision. With a dramatic rise in children developing myopia (shortsightedness), some point at the rise in the amount of time children spend in front of screens, usually iPads or phones, be it at school, doing homework, communicating with friends or playing games. Add in watching TV, and most children are spending hours a day looking at a screen. Tips for parents: Blue light that is emitted from screens can be very tiring for children’s eyes, causing headaches, blurred vision and disturbed sleep patterns. Purchase your child some blue light filtering spectacles or tinted lenses, which will filter out the harmful effects of blue light. Holding phones, tablets, games consoles and kindles close to the face, requires children to use their eyes’ zoom function causing eyes to tire. Increase text size and encourage them to hold the appliance at arms length, will help. Encourage them to take a 20-20-20 break: every 20 minutes, take a 20-second break, looking at something 20 feet away. A rule we should all stick to. Although genetics play a significant role in whether a child will be short-sighted, other risk factors include how much time they spend indoors and how much time they spend focussing on near tasks. So spending more time outside may help. Ensure children have their eyes examined annually but immediately if they have any issues with their vision. An eye examination will investigate any prescription, or muscle weakness that may be making close vision tasks difficult. Please see our leaflets on blue light and digital eyestrain for further information or speak to your optometrist if you have any concerns. Visit cameronoptom.com/myopia for further information on short-sightedness in children.

If your child is short-sighted (myopic), you may be aware of the benefits of myopia management, slowing the progression of the short-sightenedness. Until now, we have had great success managing myopia through the use of specialist contact lenses. However contact lenses aren't for every child and we're delighted that these new glasses offer the same benefits. Here Gillian and Ian explain more.

Are you looking after your eyes when working from home? Here Ian Cameron provides tips on how to set up your home office and how to avoid digital eyestrain, as well as numerous other handy tips.

A helpful guide from Ian Cameron on to how to rinse your eye safety and effectively at home.

Welcome to the Tear Clinic. We hope you are already enjoying the benefits of the treatment and advice you have received to date. Here we have uploaded a number of videos which we hope will be beneficial. Using an eye bag Inserting eye drops

How to spot if your child could have vision problems and why glasses are no longer the best option for short-sighted children. Thankfully, there is something you can do to slow the progression of short-sightedness, reducing the chance of your child developing serious eye conditions in later life. Here award-winning optometrist, Ian Cameron, explains.

During lockdown we learned a lot and, whilst we are delighted to be able to see patients in the practice again, video call triaging for patients with eye care emergencies was very effective. So, if you are an existing patient and have an eye care emergency or concerns about your eyes, we may still suggest the first step is a video call to assess you remotely. This ensures you can be seen quickly and saves you having to come into the practice unnecessarily. We now have an optometrist dedicated to assessing emergencies by video call every day. Hopefully it goes without saying that if we then think you need to be seen, we will arrange a time for you to come in, but equally, we treated many patients very effectively remotely, so will continue to offer this. Please always make us your first port of call in an eye care emergency as we have the highest quality equipment and most expertise in eye care, and it also helps alleviate pressure on your GP. This video gives more detail on what constitutes an emergency, but really if you have any change in your eyes or your vision, please get in touch. You may be asked by your optometrist to take photos of your eye. Here is our handy guide to take photos of your eye.