To our valued patients, friends and neighbours. Your health and well being is our top priority.
In order to maintain our same great service during the recent closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve launched our online store. Click on order contacts above.
Please check your junk mail for an email from us which can direct you to our online store, and the products you need. Please note that our trusted contact lens suppliers have waived any shipping charges in wake of the pandemic and we will ship lenses direct to your door!
Please keep in mind that our office is still open and accessible to emergency eyecare visits – please don’t hesitate to contact us and we will accommodate you.
Eye Emergency includes:
– sudden loss or changes in vision
– sudden onset of flashes of light and floaters
– sudden onset of a painful eye
– painful foreign body sensation
These are the precautions we are taking at Sage Creek eye centre to ensure we remain a safe facility.
-booking any patient in a 1 hour time slot to minimize the amount of people in the office at any given time
-sanitizing any surfaced touched by staff or patients in between patients
-washing our hands before dealing with any patients
We appreciate your patience and understanding at this time, and will provide updates as the situation evolves.
Stay Healthy, Be Safe.
Your staff at Sage Creek eye centre
Eyes are important indicators of overall health, and comprehensive eye care goes beyond a prescription for glasses or contact lenses. At Sage Creek Eye Centre, we take the time to get to know you, your eye care history, and your vision needs. Our optometrist provides the expert care, advice, options, and follow up you need whether you are a new patient or an existing one. Please contact us to schedule your appointment today!
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Dry eye disease (DED) is a multi-factorial condition that commonly causes symptoms such as irritation, burning, stinging, watery eyes or fluctuations in vision. If you have any of these symptoms, you may have dry eye disease and should be assessed by an optometrist.
Your optometrist will take a close look at the cornea, the very front surface of your eye, with a microscope and assess the tear film quantity and quality. A thorough examination of the eyelids and lashes is necessary to assess the health of the meibomian glands (the oil glands within our eyelids). Fluorescein staining is also commonly used to diagnose dry eye – this is a yellow dye that will highlight any ocular surface irregularities.
DED is most commonly caused by a deficient oily tear layer often due to a condition called blepharitis. Although there are many different types of dry eye that have different causes, the common factor in all of them is inflammation on the surface of the eyes.
Mild dry eye is most often treated with artificial tears, hot compresses, and eyelid scrubs. The optometrist will recommend one or more of these in order to come up with an individualized treatment plan depending on the cause of your dry eyes. Severe dry eye may need to be treated with prescription eyedrops, punctal plugs (plugs that close the drainage structure on the front of your eye).
Of course. Remember to drink enough water each day to ensure that you stay hydrated. Give yourself regular breaks from the computer and smart phone – when we are focused on a specific task, we tend to blink much less than we need to. Remember the 20/20/20 rule – every 20 minutes look past 20 feet for at least 20 seconds – blink a few times and you should be set to get back to what you were doing.
Sage Creek is a young, fast-growing community with lots of young families, and lots of children. Unfortunately, children don’t always know what “normal” vision is supposed to look like so they won’t know if there’s a problem. Vision is very important for learning and development of hand-eye coordination, cognitive function and motor skills.
For very young children, a dilated eye exam is strongly recommended.
