Maple Ridge Eye Care Winter Newsletter

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www.mapleridgeeyecare.ca Winter 2017

Monday & Friday • 9 am - 6 pm / Tuesday • 9:30 am - 6 pm / Wednesday & Thursday • 9 am - 8 pm / Saturday • 9 am - 4:30 pm

Maple Ridge Eye Care Your Doctor Recommends™
Donates to Hospital Dr. Rughani
Foundation Gala
Q What is Dr. Priya Rughani
Computer
Vision
Syndrome?

AYou spend lots of time in
front of a computer. Do
your eyes feel strained? Do

you suffer from a combination

of headaches, burning eyes,

blurred vision, or neck and

shoulder pains? You could have

“Computer Vision Syndrome.”

Help yourself: follow the 20/20/20

On Oct. 14th, Drs. Murray Hurlbert, hospital. We were pleased to Rule. Every 20 minutes, take
Gary Matter, Priya Rughani, office donate over $3000 through our
manager Janice and their spouses ticket and auction purchases as an eye break and look 20 feet
attended the annual Ridge Meadows well as contributing Maui Jim
Hospital Foundation gala. Over, sunglasses to the silent auction. away for 20 seconds. Blink and
$230,000 were raised during this Our thanks go out to the hard
spectacular evening at Meadow working volunteers and directors produce some tears, and give
Gardens Golf Club. This was the of the Hospital Foundation for their
12th year that our doctors and volunteerism not only during this your eye muscles a chance to
staff contributed. This year’s Gala, one evening but throughout the
titled Enchanted, was a glamorous entire year. The Hospital Foundation relax. Also, decrease glare by
evening of fundraising, with the is critical in helping our health care
proceeds being used to support professionals meet the needs of our adjusting your computer monitor.
specialty training and purchase growing local community.
life-saving equipment for our Let us help: an eye exam and

discussion with your Optometrist

will identify the best ways to

eliminate your computer vision

We are also proud to have recently donated $500 to the new CNIB Guide problem. You may benefit from
Dog Program. For people who are blind or partially sighted, mobility can
be a key component of independence. Guide dogs, which are specially specialized office or computer
bred and trained to provide mobility assistance to people who are blind
or partially sighted, are more than just a tool: they act as a partner in lenses. To reduce glare, those
independence that can expand the world in a profound way.
lenses should also have an anti-

reflective coating.

Winter 2017

Life-saving Benefits
of Polarized Lenses!

The day is bright and sunny. Optimal conditions for surface will
driving, right? Wrong! Blinding glare from sun and strike the
vehicles is a contributing factor to fatal vehicle driver’s eyes
accidents. More than 90 percent of reactions made at a similar
behind the wheel depend on good vision. A recent angle and
survey revealed a disturbing fact – 20 percent produce
of eyeglass wearers sometimes drive without strong glare.
their prescription glasses and instead wear non- Working like
prescription sunglasses. That means one in five a venetian blind,
make daydriving unnecessarily treacherous. Also, polarized lenses have a laminated surface with
reaction times improved by one third of a second vertical stripes that allow only vertical light to
for drivers who wear polarized prescription lenses. enter the eyes. Glare is eliminated because the
For a car traveling 80 km/h, one-third of a second horizontally-polarized light waves can’t bypass the
allows a driver to stop seven metres sooner, or the polarized filter. We can recommend the best lens
length of an intersection. In glare-intense situations, options for your unique lifestyle.
polarized lenses improve vision clarity by 75 percent,
compared to ordinary sun lenses. How do they work? TROUBLE SEEING ON SUNNY DAYS? Over 60 percent
Sunlight itself is not polarized – it's either absorbed
or reflected. Sunlight bouncing off a horizontal of eyeglass wearers surveyed agree that glare from

the sun makes it difficult to see while driving.

$15.8 1/9 1/4 200

Billion - Total annual Number of Canadians Number of Canadians Number of Canadian
cost of vision loss in developing irreversible developing irreversible workers who suffer
Canada 10 years ago and
the cost has been rising vision loss by age 65 vision loss by age 75 eye injuries daily
every years since.

Color. Clarity. Detail.

Winter 2017

Do You Suffer
from Dry Eye?

Maple Ridge Eye Care is proud to introduce a new diagnostic/
service within our practice: a Dry Eye Care Clinic consultation
(DCC). Our goal with this new resource is to appointment where
partner with you on your dry eye treatment to help we will use the most
you feel better, see better and to keep your eyes advanced technology
from deteriorating over time. to objectively test your
dry eye. We will assess
What is Dry Eye Disease? your symptoms and develop a treatment plan and
followup schedule customized for you.
Dry Eye Disease (DED) is a chronic condition
where the body cannot produce either an DCC Treatment Program Includes:
adequate amount or a proper composition of tears.
Contributing factors include age, gender, certain • Initial diagnostic/consultation exam with tear
general medical conditions, such as diabetes, osmolarity testing. Note: this is separate from
contact lens wear, glaucoma treatment and some a routine eye health exam, which is a pre-
oral medications. requisite to the program.

Though Dry Eye Disease is a chronic condition • Three follow up/monitoring exams: at 1 month,
and cannot be cured, your comfort can be 3 months & 6 months.
improved and your eye health maintained
through the appropriate treatment. There are • Tear osmolarity testing at each of 3 follow up
varied treatments including but not limited to visits.
simple ocular lubricants, prescription eye drops
or in-office eyelid oil (meibomian) gland/eyelid • In-office meibomian gland expression, as
treatments. needed (not applicable/necessary for all DCC
patients)
Dry Eye Care Clinic (DCC) Treatment Program
• Dry Eye starter kit – iDrop gel eye drops or
We offer complete therapy for Dry Eye Disease; Liposic gel drops, plus either a Bruder warm
when you enroll, the first step is an initial massage mask or gel foaming i-lid n’ lash
eyelid cleanser.

Dr. M. Hurlbert • Dr. Gary A. Matter • Dr. Angela Lee • Dr. Priya Rughani

101 - 23015 Dewdney Trunk Road Maple Ridge, BC V2X 3K9
Ph. (604) 463-4469 Fax. (604) 467-1339

Monday & Friday • 9 am - 6 pm / Tuesday • 9:30 am - 6 pm / Wednesday & Thursday • 9 am - 8 pm / Saturday • 9 am - 4:30 pm

www.mapleridgeeyecare.ca

Your Baby’s Eye Exam

We often see children at health problems can be more
age 5 or 6 for their first
eye examination who easily corrected if treatment
have significant eyeglass
prescriptions or one weaker is started early. 3% of children
eye, which are two reasons
why we recommend a are born with amblyopia, or
child’s first eye examination
occur between the ages of “lazy eye”, where one eye
6-12 months and annually
thereafter. Our optometrists sees very clearly and the
will test for visual acuity,
excessive or unequal other has poor vision. This
amounts of nearsightedness,
farsightedness or astigmatism can occur when both eyes
and eye muscle coordination.
Vision development and eye appear straight. Also, during

the first eye exam your child’s

eyes will be examined for

serious eye diseases such as

cataracts (1/6000 live births*)

and retinoblastoma, a tumor at

the back of the eye (1/100,000

1 year olds*) US * statistics