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Archives February 2025

HEALTH MAINTENANCE  ORGANISATION (HMO)

These days health care is gradually becoming expensive. Most people especially the low and average income earners find it difficult to foot their bills whenever they visit any health care facility.

Health  insurance policy is something that everyone should actually look into, as it is aimed towards providing a soft landing financially for people in need of health care services.

Health maintenance organisation are insurance companies that partners with individuals and firms to help with part or whole medical bills. All the individual or company has to do is pay a token monthly or yearly, known as premium, then the HMOs reaches out to the healthcare providers and agree on a specific fee for all the individuals registered under them.

Some of the HMOs that eagleview Eyeclinic partners with are , reliance, leadway, clearline, greenfield, oceanic, ihms, Philips, Nonsuch, sunuhealth, hygaie,  novohealth, anchor HMO, peramere, Venus et.c.

HEALTH BENEFITS OF EGGS

Myths surrounding eggs have made lots of people stay away from this extremely rich and nutritional food.

Eggs are very rich in over 13 essential vitamins, Nine Amino acids, minerals, proteins antioxidants.

Health benefits includes :

1. The protein content of eggs makes it a solid build block of life, as it helps tissue and muscle repair.

2. Eggs are very rich in HDL which is extremely important for healthy heart.

3. The cholesterol content of egg makes it essential for the synthesis of vitamin D which is very good for strong bones and teeth

4. Eggs are very good for weight loss

5. Eggs by virtue of it’s choline content is very good for the liver.

6. Eggs are rich in powerful antioxidants like lutein, xeanthine, vitamin A, making it a very good dietary supplement for healthy eyes.

7. Eggs are very good for anti – aging by virtue of its vitamin E content.

8. Eggs helps boost mental health.

YOU ARE PROBABLY HAVING CATARACT IF…..
  1. You vision is cloudy
  2. You find it difficult to see fine details clearly.
  3. You can now all of a sudden read small prints if you are originally hyperopic or presbyopic.
  4. Your glasses prescription changes faster than normal.
  5. Your vision gets worse under very bright environment but improves under dim environment.
  6. You see colored rings(haloes) around lights ( In cases of diabetes induced cataract.
YOU ARE ALREADY HAVING PRESBYOPIA IF YOU DO THE FOLLOWING
  1. stretch your reading materials out while reading.
  2. Difficulty reading small prints.
  3. Headaches when you try to read small prints.
  4. Requiring abnormally large prints while reading.
  5. Requiring extremely bright light to read clearly.
  6. You can see far distance with your glasses but you can’t read small prints with your glasses.
HEALTH BENEFITS OF PALM OIL

Palm oil other wise known as red oil is gotten from processing palm fronds. It one of the major condiments for cooking most Nigerian dishes.

Palm oil is highly rich in healthy vitamins and minerals that benefits humans in more ways than one.

Some of the health benefits of Palm oil includes

  1. It improves eye sight by virtue of it’s high beta carotene content.
  2. It very rich in vitamin E, which aids in anti- aging.
  3. It is rich in vitamin K which aids blood coagulation.
  4. It prevents the hair from greying fast while maintaining it’s strength.
  5. It boosts skin health.
  6. By reducing bad cholesterol ( Low density lipoprotein) while increasing good cholesterol High density lipoprotein, it aids improved cardiovascular function.
EYE CONDITIONS THAT CAN BE DISCOVERED IN YOUR CHILD BY TAKING THEM FOR COMPREHENSIVE EYE EXAMINATION

These conditions includes

  1. Retinoblastoma
  2. Refractive Errors
  3. Congenital cataract
  4. Congenital glaucoma
  5. Strabismus
  6. Amblyopia
  7. And many more…….
EYE CONDITIONS THAT CAN BE DISCOVERED IN YOUR CHILD BY TAKING THEM FOR COMPREHENSIVE EYE EXAMINATION

These conditions includes

  1. Retinoblastoma
  2. Refractive Errors
  3. Congenital cataract
  4. Congenital glaucoma
  5. Strabismus
  6. Amblyopia
  7. And many more…….
EYE CONDITIONS THAT CAN BE DISCOVERED IN YOUR CHILD BY TAKING THEM FOR COMPREHENSIVE EYE EXAMINATION

These conditions includes

  1. Retinoblastoma
  2. Refractive Errors
  3. Congenital cataract
  4. Congenital glaucoma
  5. Strabismus
  6. Amblyopia
  7. And many more…….
YOUR CHILD’S FIRST EYE EXAMINATION SHOULD BE AT AGE 3.

Most people believe that kids should not even have issues with their eyes. Because they are kids, I mean what have they seen in life that they should be having eye issues?. So for this reason, most parent do not even want to think of taking their child to the clinic at such an early age because visiting the clinic at all means there is a problem ( according to most parents).

When you buy an electronic product, it’s possible for the product to have factory faults or faults resulting from shipping the product from point of production to point of sales.

Similarly as kids go through the process of development in the womb through to delivery, many issues may arise, probably as a result of genetic mutation or makeup, complications from food or drugs taken or not taken by the pregnant mum, issues arising from the delivery process et.c.

All these can only be uncovered during an extensive eye Examination. And once discovered, it is best that they are treated early, as optimum recovery is achieved with early treatment.

BINOCULARITY

BINOCULARITY is the ability of both eyes to focus on and see one object as one object without difficulty.

With binocularity, functions like depth perception, distance perception and movement detection, becomes possible.

With Binocularity in place, the two eyes converge together, diverge together and form a 3D perception.

Conditions that can disrupt binocularity includes, strabismus, amblyopia, loss of one eye, antimetropia or anisometropia, high degree phoria.

Signs and symptoms of lack of binocularity includes inability to tell two objects apart, double vision, eye strain,

Treatment for  Binocularity problems is simply visual therapy and eye exercises.