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In light of the holiday season, here are our top 10 eye care jokes.
1) What do you call a blind deer? No Eye Deer!
2) What do you call a blind deer with no legs? Still No Eye Deer!
3) Why do eye doctors live long lives? Because they dilate!
4) Why did the blind man fall into the well? He couldn’t see that well.
5) Why shouldn’t you put avocados on your eyes? Because you might get guac-coma!
6) What did the right eye say to the left eye? "Between you and me, something smells."
7) A man goes to his eye doctor and tells the receptionist he’s seeing spots. The receptionist asks if he’s ever seen a doctor. The man replies, “No, just spots.”
8) How many eye doctors does it take to screw in a light bulb? One … or two
9) Unbeknownst to her, a woman was kicked out of peripheral vision club. She didn’t see that one coming!
10) What do you call a blind dinosaur? A do-you-think-he-saurus
Bonus: What do you call a blind dinosaur’s dog? A do-you-think-he-saurus rex!
Article contributed by Dr. Jonathan Gerard
Punctal plugs are something we use to help treat Dry Eye Syndrome.
This syndrome is a multifactorial problem that comes from a generalized decrease in the amount and quality of the tears you make. There is often both a lack of tear volume and inflammation in the tear glands, which interfere with tear production and also cause the quality of the tears to not be as good.
We make tears through two different mechanisms. One is called a basal secretion of tears, meaning a constant low flow or production of tears to keep the eye moist and comfortable. There is a second mechanism called reflexive tear production, which is a sudden flood of tears caused by the excitation of nerves on the eye surface when they detect inflammatory conditions or foreign body sensations. It is a useful reflexive nerve loop that helps wash out any foreign body or toxic substance you might get in the eye by flooding the eye with tears. Consider what happens when you get suntan lotion in your eye. The nerves detect the irritation that the lotion creates, and your eyes quickly flood with tears.
That reflex mechanism is how some people get tearing even though the underlying cause of that tearing is dry eye. They don’t produce enough of the basal tears, the eye surface gets irritated and then the reflex tearing kicks in and floods their eyes, tearing them up. Once that reflex is gone then the eye
