Bonner Eye Clinic, Minneapolis, MN (2026)

02/07/2022

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12/25/2021

What Is an Ocular Migraine?
Ocular migraines can be alarming if you don’t know what they are and suddenly get one for the first time.
If you’ve ever noticed a patch of bright, shimmering light that gradually widens until it fills your entire field of vision, you might have had an ocular migraine. When we hear the word “migraine,” we tend to think it’s about headaches, but this particular type of migraine doesn’t always have anything to do with pain.

Different Types of Visual Migraines
While ocular migraines on their own are usually temporary and not serious, they do come in three different types.

Painless Ocular Migraine
Sometimes, ocular migraines happen without headaches. They won’t look exactly the same for everyone. Some people may see psychedelic images, others see flashing or shimmering lights, and others see stars or zigzagging lines. The effect begins small but soon spreads and obscures the field of vision in both eyes, then clears on its own.

The visual effects may be the only symptoms, but sometimes motor function or speech is also temporarily affected. While these types of ocular migraines are not considered serious, they do briefly interfere with ordinary activities, such as driving, reading, or writing. If one comes on while you’re on the road, pull off to the side until it passes. Typically it lasts between thirty minutes and an hour.

Migraine with Aura
A fifth of people who suffer migraine headaches also experience ocular migraines, sometimes as a warning symptom that the headache is on its way. If you’ve experienced visual distortions before headaches, make sure to discuss it with your doctor. It is sometimes possible to reduce the frequency of migraines by avoiding triggers like eating certain foods, exposure to sudden bright light, and stress. Other triggers can include smoking and oral contraceptives.

Retinal Migraine
The third and potentially more dangerous form of ocular migraine is a retinal migraine. While ocular migraines affect both eyes, retinal migraines will only affect one, though they may also precede a migraine headache just like in the case of a migraine with aura.

This is the rarest type of ocular migraine. It happens when the blood vessels in the retina constrict, reducing the blood flow to the eye. Long-term damage to the eye is rare, and a retinal migraine may only happen once every few months, but it’s a good idea to consult with the eye doctor to make sure it isn’t connected to another condition.

12/25/2021

Eyebrows and Eyelashes
Our eyebrows and eyelashes aren’t just there for decoration.
They’re not even just there for helping us make different facial expressions or to make our eyes stand out. They’re actually the first line of defense our eyes have against airborne contaminants and other hazards.

How Eyelashes Protect Our Eyes
It might seem weird to think of eyelashes as anything but decorative, and while they certainly are beautiful, they’re also doing a lot of work to keep dust, debris, and dirt in the air from reaching our eyes. When we close our eyes, our eyelashes form an impenetrable barrier against these irritants. They’re also highly sensitive, triggering a blinking reflex when touched so that an incoming foreign object won’t get closer to the eye itself. That’s why it can be so hard to keep your eyes open while applying eye makeup!

Our eyelashes are just the right length and thickness to keep dust out of our eyes and help them to not dry out too quickly. Wearing false lashes can actually throw off these important functions, increasing the risk of dry eye and dust exposure. Some people may have allergic reactions to the false lashes or even get an eye infection. Cosmetic solutions like eyelash extensions also carry the risk of temporary or permanent loss of eyelashes.

The Function of Eyebrows
Because eyelashes are so close to the surface of our eyes, it’s easy to see how they protect them, but eyebrows are much farther away. What can they really do? In fact, eyebrows help to channel liquid away from our eyes and down the sides of our faces, whether that’s sweat or raindrops or something else. The angle the individual hairs grow and the arching shape of the brows are all part of this.

Just as cosmetically enhancing our eyelashes can interfere with their protective function, overplucking our eyebrows can make them worse at their job. That’s why we hope the trend of bold, thick eyebrows is here to stay!

Bring Us Your Eye Concerns, Including Brows and Lashes
As long as we aren’t overdoing it with plucking and eye makeup, our eyebrows and eyelashes will usually stay pretty healthy on their own. However, they can develop problems like inflammation, ingrown hairs, and hair loss. If this happens to you, we can help! We’ll take a look and help discover the cause of the problem, recommend treatment if necessary, and make a plan to prevent it from recurring.

12/25/2021

UV Rays and Sunglasses
Things are heating up for summer!
For a lot of us, that probably means spending more time outside, but it also means more exposure to harmful UV rays. Are you prepared with the proper sun protection, particularly sunglasses?

UV Rays Versus Healthy Vision
Even if we’re careful not to look directly at the sun, just being outside for extended periods can be enough to get sunburns on our eyes. These are called photokeratitis, and symptoms include redness, a grainy feeling when blinking, light sensitivity, tearing, and blurred vision. In snowy areas, photokeratitis is often called “snow blindness,” but it’s also a problem on sandy beaches in the summer.

Longterm, UV exposure can have cumulative effects on our vision, including increasing the risk of developing sight-threatening conditions like macular degeneration and cataracts. We also become more vulnerable to pterygium or “surfer’s eye” (an overgrowth of the clear tissue of the whites of the eyes towards the iris) and pinguecula (white or yellow bumps that form in the whites of the eyes).

Wear Sunglasses to Protect Your Eyesight from UV Rays
The first priority we should all have when choosing a new pair of sunglasses is making sure they offer full UV protection. Check the label to see if the pair you’re interested in blocks at least 99% of UVA and UVB rays. Large lenses are also a good idea, because they offer more coverage. Polarized lenses offer even better protection because they eliminate the glare from sunlight bouncing off surfaces around us, including other cars and the surface of the water.

Other Tips for UV Protection
In addition to always wearing sunglasses when outside during the day, there are other things you can do to keep your eyes (and skin) safe from the sun:

Minimize the time you spend in the sun during the brightest hours of the day (10 a.m. to 4 p.m.).
Wear wide-brimmed hats for additional shade.
Use sunscreen!
We Can Help You Find the Perfect Sun Protection Gear!
If you’re not sure which sunglasses are the best for protecting your eyes from UV rays, we can help! We’re happy to offer recommendations for great sunglasses (especially if you’re interested in prescription sunglasses), and make sure to contact us or schedule an appointment if you’re experiencing symptoms of sun-related eye problems.

12/24/2021

Tips for Choosing New Frames
When we pick out new glasses, we want frames that will help us look our best.
Glasses are a huge part of a person’s look — why do you think nobody recognizes Superman behind the Clark Kent glasses? Because of the difference glasses make to our appearance, there’s a lot to consider when choosing the right frames.

Complementary Face and Frame Shape
Depending on the shape of your face, you might be more suited to some frame shapes than others. Here’s a quick guide on face shapes if you don’t already know yours:

Square. Strong jawline and forehead, about as wide as they are long.
Round. Full cheeks, rounded hair and jawline, and similar width and length.
Oval. Similar to round faces, but a little thinner and longer.
Heart-shaped. Wide cheeks and forehead, narrow chin. Sometimes emphasized with a widow’s peak hairline.
A great way to figure out your face shape is to look in the mirror, close one eye, and use a washable marker to draw the outline of your face. Whatever shape you draw should be similar to one of the four main face shapes. You can also ask us about your face shape at our practice!

The reason it’s a good idea to take the shape of your face into account when choosing frames is that it can determine which frame shapes are flattering on you. Rectangular glasses on a square face will only emphasize the squareness, while round glasses help soften out the angles.

Other Frame Factors to Consider
Shape is important, but it isn’t the only thing to think about in a new pair of frames. Size matters too. You want glasses that are neither too small nor too large for your face. This is particularly important for kids. Glasses for younger kids don’t look good on teenagers and vice versa.

Color is also important. If your skin has a warmer tone, you’ll probably look best in frame colors like camel, khaki, gold, copper, peach, orange, coral, off-white, fire-engine red, warm blue, or blond tortoise. People with cooler skin tones would do better in frame colors like black, silver, rose-brown, blue-gray, plum, magenta, pink, jade, blue, or darker tortoise.

Find the Frames that Suit Your Style
Picking new glasses isn’t just about matching them to your face shape, size, and color; it’s also about your sense of style! That’s especially true if you’re looking for a bold new look. That’s why we offer a wide selection of styles and materials for our patients to choose from. We’re also happy to make recommendations if you’re not sure where to start!

12/24/2021

Women’s Eye Health
Men and women might not come from different planets, but there are certainly a lot of differences between the two — even with eye health.
Women, unfortunately, tend to be more vulnerable to a number of eye diseases, even if they are less likely than men to sustain a sight-threatening eye injury over the course of their lives. So what can they do to protect their eyesight?

Eye Diseases that Disproportionately Affect Women
Women are more likely to develop glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration (AMD) than men. Glaucoma is a group of conditions that damage the optic nerve, causing permanent vision loss. AMD is the gradual loss of central vision. The main reason women are more vulnerable to these conditions is that they have longer life expectancies than men. The best way to fight them is with early detection, which means keeping up with your regular eye exams.

It’s not just sight-threatening conditions that affect women more than men; women are also more prone to chronic dry eye and are more likely to need glasses than men. Symptoms of dry eye include blurred vision, redness, irritation, and discomfort. It’s important to recognize the symptoms of dry eye, because if it goes untreated, it can increase the risk of eye infection.

Eye Disease Risk Factors
Aside from advanced age, some of the risk factors associated with women developing eye diseases include birth control, pregnancy, and menopause, because they all involve major changes in hormone levels. Dry eye is also more likely to occur in these situations, and birth control may increase a woman’s chance of developing cataracts.

Age and gender are not controllable risk factors, but we can definitely do something about one of the big ones: neglect. Many women may forget to get the care they need for their vision health because they’re so busy keeping track of the rest of the family’s appointments! Don’t let your own healthcare needs get lost in the shuffle!

What Women See
Let’s lighten things up a little after all that talk of eye-threatening conditions. There are actually physical differences between what women see and what men see! Women have been shown to be better at distinguishing subtle color differences than men, especially in the greens and yellows. Have you ever seen (or been) a couple arguing over paint swatches? Now you know why!

Your Best Eye Health Resource Is Your Optometrist
We hope all our patients will be proactive in taking care of their eye health. A few things we can all do is avoid smoking, eat nutritious foods, and schedule regular eye exams. If you ever notice any changes in your vision, though, there’s no need to wait until the next scheduled appointment, especially if it’s months away!

12/24/2021

The Inner Workings of the Eye
Have you ever stopped to think about how amazing the human eye is?
These complicated organs take light waves bouncing off the things in front of us and convert those into a continuous stream moving images that are accurate and detailed. They arguably connect us to our surroundings more than any other sense and make so many activities we take for granted possible, from driving to reading to looking at our loved ones’ faces. But how do they do all that?

How the Parts of the Eye Help Us See
Let’s focus today on the portions of eye anatomy that are closely involved in creating the images that go to the brain. We’ll move from front to back.

Cornea: the clear layer at the very front of the eye that allows light inside.
Iris: the colorful, circular muscle that contracts and expands to control the amount of light entering the eye.
Lens: a clear disc that changes shape in order to focus on objects at different distances. (This is different from the lens in a camera, which is rigid and must physically move in order to change focus.)
Retina: a thin layer of tissue at the back of the eye covered in light-sensitive cells called rods and cones.
Optic nerve: the nerve that transmits visual information from the retina to the brain for processing at an estimated rate of around a million bits per second! That’s a lot!
Eyes Working As a Team: Binocular Vision
Have you ever noticed that you see a slightly different angle with your right eye than you do with your left? You can test it by covering one eye at a time. This is binocular vision. The differences in the two images creates a live 3D image. It’s the reason we have depth perception, or the ability to judge the relative distances of different objects from us.

The Visual Cortex of the Brain
The visual cortex is located in the occipital lobe in the back of the brain. About 20% of the brain is dedicated to visual processing, and another 40% is involved in smaller ways, like vision+touch, vision+motor, vision+attention, vision+meaning, etc. We’re absorbing and processing new visual data many times per second, which is how we can perceive motion, make sense of what we see, and react.

The Eyes’ Defense Team and Maintenance Crew
We’ve talked about the parts of the eye involved in turning light waves into images processed in the brain, but there are other parts whose job is to keep the whole system running smoothly. Our eyelids are there to protect our eyes. Eyebrows and eyelashes help with that. When we blink, it refreshes the tear film and sweeps away any debris and contaminants. The tear film itself is produced and maintained by a system of glands and ducts.

Help Your Eyes Stay in Good Shape
We will never stop being amazed by the way all the many parts of the eye work together to make vision possible. Being as complex as eyes are, though, there are quite a few ways things can go wrong if they aren’t getting the care they need. That’s where we come in! Make sure to let us know if you’ve noticed any recent changes in your vision or have been experiencing any eye-related symptoms.

12/24/2021

Allergies and Our Eyes
Spring is a beautiful season with lots of flowers and vibrant greens...but it can be hard to enjoy when you have allergies.
So why does springtime leave so many of us with itchy, red, and puffy eyes? How can we be sure it’s allergies and not something else, and what can we do to keep our eyes feeling good so we can enjoy the season?

The Culprits Behind Seasonal Allergies
Allergies can be caused by all kinds of things, from pet dander to dust to perfume, so they aren’t necessarily limited to a particular time of the year. However, they do tend to get worse in the spring and the fall, and that’s because of pollen. Some plants, like grass, pollinate in the spring, while others, like ragweed, pollinate in the fall.

During this time, the air becomes full of these tiny particles that we can breathe in or get in our eyes without realizing. When that happens to someone with an overactive immune system, it leads to congestion, itchy eyes, and plenty of sneezing.

The Eye’s Response to Allergens
Typically, eye-related allergy symptoms will include watering, redness, and itchiness, and there may also be a scratchy or gritty feeling, a burning sensation, swollen eyelids, and some discomfort wearing contact lenses. It might seem that taking decongestants will help, but they could make the eye symptoms worse by drying out the eyes, which will only make them even more vulnerable to airborne allergens.

Tips for Soothing Allergy Symptoms
It’s very important to stay well hydrated during an allergy attack, and you can use eye drops to help with eye irritation (especially if you take an allergy medication that dries them out). It’s also a good idea to stick to glasses instead of contacts, which can trap allergens against the eye and make symptoms even worse. And no matter how much they itch, don’t rub your eyes!

Allergy Prevention
It’s not really possible to completely avoid all that pollen in the air, but there are ways we can minimize our exposure. Keep your windows shut and don’t use window fans that can blow the pollen into the house. It’s also a good idea to stay inside on windy days and wear a pollen mask while doing yard work. Even wearing sunglasses or regular glasses can offer some protection for your eyes.

Count On Your Optometrist
Whether you’re having eye trouble because of allergies or any other reason, we’re here to help. We want all of our patients to be able to enjoy the spring season, so give us a call if you’ve been dealing with itchy, runny eyes.

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