May is National Sight Saving Month!

Sight Saving Tips:

• Protect your eyes from harmful ultraviolet light by making sure all family members wear sunglasses that filter out damaging UV light.
• Prevent eye injury by wearing protective eyewear (safety glasses and goggles) during activities which may cause eye trauma.
• Learn first-aid for eye emergencies.

  The following chart, provided by the American Optometric Association, is very helpful when faced with an ocular emergency.  You might want to print it out and keep is handy.

  Ocular Emergencies:  What To Do

  It is a pdf file which requires you to have the Adobe Acrobat Reader program installed on your computer in order to open, save, and/or print it.

  If you do not already have this program installed, you can download it for free at the Adobe website. Click on the icon to the right to go there now.