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Wearing yellow-tinted spectacles when driving at night does not improve the chances of detecting a pedestrian on the road.

Do you want to control your child's Myopia? Shattky's do, and there are many techniques - let's combat Myopia together.

Ensuring your Eye Safety is now a big part of our Eyecare. There are about 10,000 work-related eye injuries a year in NZ. 90% of eye injuries can be prevented by wearing proper eye protection.

Dry Eyes is a symptom of our modern era with so many people spending more time in front of screens of one sort or another. It affects about 20% of the population, more often affecting women than men, and increasingly common with age.

People who use computers and digital devices for long periods commonly experience problems with their eyes. It is sometimes referred to as Computer Vision Syndrome. The main symptoms are: eyestrain, Tired eyes, Irritation, Burning sensation, Redness, Blurred vision. These may be due to blue light exposure or underlying (and previously untreated) eye conditions.

Shattky's has been committed to this for many years, we are big enough to make the capital investment in the latest equipment and then we use it fully and frequently.

This term is used to describe vision that is markedly reduced from normal, typically reduced to the point where the patient can no longer drive, and reading is limited to just the newspaper headlines. It can be intensely frustrating -imagine how the avid reader or long-time driver feels about the loss of their freedom to do those things.

"Wow! It’s hard to explain a miracle of sorts in writing. Our 9 year old was short-sighted and had been wearing glasses for just on 18 months. His eye sight had deteriorated and we were up for new glasses but he had also become very self conscious and now found it difficult wearing glasses full time, particularly whilst playing sport."