Should You Smoke Marijuana to Treat Your Glaucoma? Although marijuana can lower eye pressure, please consider its side effects, short duration of action, and lack of evidence that its use alters the course of glaucoma. Glaucoma is a disease of the optic nerve, the cable that carries visual information from the eye to the brain. […]
Read MoreThe Bedminster Eye & Laser Team wishes you and yours Happy Holidays lit by the warm glow of family and friends! Thank you for entrusting your precious vision and eye health to us. Holiday Gifts that Get Kids Off the Screens Need some last-minute gift ideas for the kids? Buy your child something that will […]
Read MorePlease Celebrate Safely and Buy Safe Toys and Gifts With the Holidays and New Year’s Eve right around the corner, let’s review how to celebrate while protecting your eyes. Here are three tips to keep it happy and healthy. 1.) Keep decorations safe by being careful when decorating trees, hanging glass ornaments higher up where […]
Read MoreLaura’s Story: Costume Contacts Scarred My Eye Just 10 hours after she first put in a pair of colored contact lenses that she’d bought at a souvenir shop, Laura Butler of Perkersburg, W. Va. , had “extreme pain in both eyes,” she said. “Because I had not been properly fitted by an eye care professional, […]
Read MoreOctober 19, 2022 To All Patients:You may not be eligible for Medicare, but you probably know someone who is. Please pass this helpful message on to anyone you know who is eligible for Medicare! It is that time again…… Don’t be caught off guard….the Medicare Open Enrollment 2022 session begins October 15 and runs through December 7, 2022! This is the only period during […]
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What Older Patients Need to Know about Healthy Aging September is Healthy Aging Month, and Bedminster Eye and Laser Center wants older patients to know that regular eye care helps to maintain healthy vision and could possibly save their lives. “Many people only go to the eye doctor when they experience a vision change or […]
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