ALCOHOL and YOUR EYES by Dr. Obomon Taiwo

What exactly does alcohol do to our eyes?

And can alcohol abuse cause permanent problems to your sight?

Can alcohol consumption really affect an unborn child?

The effects of alcohol on the eyes are in 2 stages:

Short Term Effects:

Texas Woman Loses Sight in one Eye after Mud Run .

A young Texas mom went blind in her eye after flesh-eating bacteria seeped its way into a cut during a “Mud Run” earlier this month in Dallas.

 

Brittany Williams has no insurance and, after a week week in the hospital, now owes more than $100,000 in medical bills — even as she faces more treatment to prevent the debilitating bacteria from spreading through her body.

 

“My eye started hurting, like maybe I’ve got mud or some debris in there,” Brittany Williams told KTVT-TV of the symptoms she had hours after the race. “When I opened my eye, it was just like white. The whole room was white.”

How Contact Lenses Can Affect Your Appearance Over Time- Study.

 

While contact lenses might improve your eyesight without the need for clunky glasses, they might also be having an unintended effect on your appearance. According to a new study published in Aesthetic Surgery Journal, use of contact lenses seemingly leads to eyelid droopiness.

Researchers reviewed photographs of 96 sets of identical twins who met in Twinsburg, Ohio, on a yearly basis from 2008 to 2010, measuring the level of eyelid droopiness (called “ptosis”) in each.