Adidas Kids Eyewear 2011/2012

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Spring brings winds and dust and pollen...anti-allergy drops work if someone actually has an allergy, but they are not much help if you have "irritated eyes" from the wind or windblown dust.

Sometimes simple things are the best - avoiding going outside on a day with a high pollen count or a dry, windy day. Wearing your prescription glasses or sunglasses blocks some of the irritant reaching your eyes. Every few years a "breakthrough" is announced where a frame manufacturer produces an "anti-allergy" spectacle frame - either sealing the frame tightly to the face so no irritants from the air can reach the eyes, or having a fan or a puffer to blow clean air across the eyes.

These haven't caught on.

If your eyes are red and sore, sometimes just putting a cool compress, maybe a used cooled teabag or a cool facecloth, over the shut eyelids gives relief. If simple techniques like this don't work, make an appointment with your optometrist - we can give advice or prescribe anti-allergy drops (if appropriate). Pharmacists can help, but they cannot see the eyes as well as optometrists can (we have the equipment) so can advise more appropriately to give people eye relief in the spring.

Year round, really.

Conference 2011

As registered health professionals in NZ, every optometrist must complete at least 20 points (roughly 20 hours) of continuing education every year. This ensures that the registered person you see for your eye health needs is up to date with clinical techniques and understanding of the science behind these. Hearing about a company's wonderful new frame or lens product doesn't count!

So, NZAO organises an annual conference along with its AGM, and we were in Wellington for this last week. Speakers included Australian and NZ academics, NZ clinicians and NZ optometrists sharing their stories of disasters (fire and earthquakes) so we learnt some tips as to how to support staff and patients during and after these.

Some of the presentations were very scientific/research orientated - and these are likely to provide clinical tests in the future. And others were of the "this is what you see, now what do you do?" variety. Very useful for the patients even this week back at work!

There is also a social component in a conference - and you learn a lot from discussing the day's lectures over a quiet sauvignon blanc at day's end. And we enjoyed the presentation at the Weta cave in Miramar - thanks to the Taylors in setting up such a great film-making facility in suburban Wellington.