Top 10 Tips for Hay Fever Sufferers

1.            Start antihistamines at least 2 weeks prior to the season start. The tree pollen season stated this week.

2.            Use your medication everyday even when you are not symptomatic. A combination of oral tablets, nasal sprays and eye drops works best

3.            Shower after periods outdoors to remove pollen from hair and clothes especially before bedtime.

4.            A saline nasal douche removes pollen from the nose and soothes the irritated linings.

5.            Changing your diet - some foods like pineapple, ginger, garlic and bright coloured food contain natural antihistamines and anti-inflammatory substances.  

6.            Keep windows closed especially in the bedroom at night.

7.            If your symptoms are severe ask your doctor about immunotherapy and a possible referral

8.            Do not use eye drops when wearing soft daytime contact lenses as these bind to the lens material causing further problems.

9.            Use wraparound sunglasses to protect the eyes from as much pollen as possible.

10.       Switch to iGO Overnight vision correction.  By wearing overnight contact lenses to correct your eyesight your eyes will be more comfortable during the day. And eye drops can be used to relieve any allergic symptoms. You will avoid having to return to your glasses

USEFUL LINKS

Pollen UK

Allergy UK

The Royal Brompton Hospital Allergy Unit

The British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Benedryl iPhone push App

The Food Doctor

iGO Overnight Vision Correction

Blue Peter's Helen loses her contact lens on the high wire for Red Nose Day

Before Overnight Vision Correction

Blue Peter presenter Helen Skelton almost suffered a set back in here successful high wire challenge for red nose day. She lost one of her contact lenses toward the end of the stunt

She was trying to break the record for the highest high-wire walk ever by a woman in the UK after inching the 150m between two chimneys of London's Battersea Power Station 66m up all in aid of Red Nose Day.

Skelton, on a steel wire slightly narrower than a 10p coin, took 14 minutes to complete the 160-yard journey.  But on the last few steps she could barely see because one of her contact lenses had fallen out. There was no safety net, although she did have a harness attached to a safety wire.

Losing you contact lens on the hire wire is not the best place to lose a contact lens but it is not a scenario many of us have to face. However losing a contact lens is something which can happen at the worst possible time. 

Remember when Gordon brown lost one of his contact lenses down the plug hole just before a very important speech a few years ago and he didn't have any spares. 

Many sports people like rugby players are always losing contact lenses. England Rugby International Jo McGilchrist was always losing hers during games but the she discovered iGO Overnight vision correction contact lenses. 

So if you want to avoid losing your lenses switch to overnight vision correction.

Improve your eyesight with your iPhone/iPad!

Want to improve your eyesight? This is iPhone/iPad app has been designed to help reduce your visual fatigue and protect your eyesight!

Fatigue and strain caused from dry eyes as a result of staring at a computer screen for long hours are particularly common in contact lenses wearers. This App is supposed to be used when you feel visual fatigue or strain.

Another option for contact lenses wearers is to switch to . Specially designed contact lenses are only worn at night to gently flatten the cornea which corrects your vision when removed the next day. This means that as you are not wearing contact lenses when sat ring at your iPad or iPhone, oxygen and moisture can freely enter the eye.


This application is for recreation and relaxation only. It is not a substitute for seeing your optician if you have problem with your eyesight.

http://freedragon.blog.com/2010/09/10/how-to-protect-your-eyesight/
www.Igolenses.co.uk


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Mathew Bourne's Cinderella wears Glasses

Just seen Mathew Bourne's Cinderella in which both Cinders and her Prince Charming both wear Glasses.

Bourne has updated the ballet transferring it to 1940's wartime London, a time when contact lenses were not available hence why a number if the key characters wear glasses.

Besides "plane Jane" Cinderella and her "intelligent" Prince Charming there is the step brother who has a shoe fetish, the doctors in the psychiatric unit and many if the supporting cast all of whom wear glasses.

It is a fantastically imaginative production and the staging is dramatic with sirens, loud bangs and black and white war film archive propaganda.

Cinders transforms from plain Jane arriving at the ball in a glorious sparkly white number and by this times neither her or the Prince are wearing glasses. They can now miraculously now see - maybe they had iGO overnight vision correction after all in those days or maybe it was the magic of the fairy godfather!

The best scene for me was the early morning bedroom scene with the italienate light which basks the two leads who have the stage to themselves in early morning sunshine.

The final act has Cinderella and Prince Charming reuniting in hospital. The wicked stepmother, the most graceful and my favourite dancer tries unsuccessfully to suffocate Cinders in her bed. She is carted off to prison.

Prince Charming arrives separately and the doctor administers electric shock treatment after first carefully removing his glasses.

Cinders somehow finds him slumped in a chair as he is slowly coming around.

Of course he doesn't recognize her at first as he has to put his glasses back on before he can see her. At the same time she removes her glasses so he can see her at her best and when they fell in love at the dance she was glasses free. Anyway they compare shoes just to be sure she has the left foot and he has the right.

They finally try kiss but as they both have their glasses back on they clash and have to remove them to embrace properly.

The ballet ends playing out to Pennsylvania 6500 and the cast boogying away.

Fantastic, roll on Romeo and Romeo - his next production!


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Location:London Sadlers Wells

Glasses for children - no thanks says twin boys Dan and Alex

iGO  Contact Lens wearersDan and Alex

This is an interesting story about twins who had problems with their eyesight. Being twins it affected them them similarly.

Many parents of children who wear glasses do not realise that children can wear contact lenses and actually adapt very well and often tolerate contact lenses better than adults. Children don't want to be different from their peers and glasses set them apart, so getting rid of children's glasses is a great benefit. It also means that they can get involved in school sports and playground activities. Children who wear glasses often avoid these activities and miss out on an important part of learning and social interaction.

i-Go Lenses Press Releases/media

Childrens vision problems and computer use

Children may suffer from computer vision problems as a result spending too much time at the computer screen. This is a new phenomenon and whilst there is no hard scientific evidence as yet anecdotally optometrist a reporting that shortsightedness is starting at a younger age.

Children and Glasses

Fox News reported yesterday on a recent study funded by Johnson and Johnson which not surprisingly concluded that children do better at sport and have a higher self perception if they wear contact lenses as opposed to glasses.

Olympic Judo Bronze Medalist looses contact lens while fighting

At the Bejing Olympics - Korean bronze medallist - Jeong Gyeongmi fought almost blind when one of her contact lenses fell out during her quarter final bout. If she had overnight vision correction lenses this would not have happened - she wouldn't have been wearing any.