Victoria Vision Eye Care

11/21/2025

Love this:
https://food-guide.canada.ca/en/

So simple and it's a great visual: half your plate veggies, with whole grain foods, and healthy proteins. This diet keeps your eyes healthy too!

November is diabetes awareness month, and uncontrolled diabetes can cause significant damage to your eyes. So avoid (or improve your diabetes) by 1- avoiding processed foods, and 2- eating lots of veggies!

11/15/2025

Fab! Check out our new addition to our selection of frames, Christian Lacroix! Know for its theatrical, opulent, and colourful haute couture, these frames are the perfect thing to bring colour to your life this winter!

11/06/2025

"Don't take a pill, take a photon." -Dr. Samer Hattar (a chronobiologist). Love that quote. The quote is in the context of mood and mental health and sleep-wake cycle, but there are so many reasons to spend time outside! One of them is to get your vitamin D, of which we're learning more and more about the importance. There is growing evidence of a lack of vitamin D increasing the risk of dry eyes (among other other eye diseases). So step outside at lunch and get a photon!

10/31/2025

Our previous OCT died, so we have a new OCT! The main function of an OCT is to take a light "ultrasound" image of your retinal layers. It gives us amazing information to help diagnose and treat glaucoma and macular degeneration (among other diseases). And now those images are in even higher resolution!

10/23/2025

10/17/2025

A reminder for the new school year...
Here's an article from the Canadian Pediatric Society on the effects of screen time on children: developmental, physical and psychosocial. Screen use as children can affect them for the rest of their lives! If you would like resources on how to regulate screen time in your household, I highly recommend 's informative and very practical book, The Tech Diet.
https://cps.ca/en/documents/position/screen-time-and-preschool-children

There's more evidence emerging that screen use contributes to near-sightedness (myopia)... more on that another time.

10/09/2025

According to the last few years of wastewater data, COVID's peak has been in October, and long COVID is still a concern. Flu season is ramping up too, so don't forget your respiratory virus prevention habits. Friend and family relationships are so important, but be smart when you get together this Thanksgiving.

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/respiratory-infectious-diseases-reduce-spread-personal-protective-measures.html

09/29/2025

We support all year, but especially on World Sight Day, which we're celebrating on October 7 this year. We are happy to pass on any donations you make to this fantastic organization that trains optometrists in developing countries.

09/22/2025

We're celebrating World Sight Day on October 7! Our doctors will be donating all the proceeds from their eye exams to on that day. So book your eye exam for October 7, and we'll donate to this fantastic organization.

09/12/2025

Do you have a red eye? Please don't go to your pharmacist or GP (if you're lucky enough to have one). A slitlamp is required to properly diagnose a red eye, which a pharmacist or GP does not have. It could be as simple as a dry eye, or it could be as dangerous as a corneal ulcer or iritis. We do our best to fit in emergencies within 24 hours, during our work week.

09/04/2025

It's plum season! I love Italian plums--in cakes, compotes, jams, or just on their own. Plums are a good source of vitamin A, which is important for eyesight. They're also high in vitamin C (an antioxidant, which is also important for eye health) and fibre. Get 'em while they're ripe!

08/29/2025

Are you seeing lots of ads for dry eye treatments? Book an exam with our doctors, and we'll let you know what treatments are right for you.