Wesbrook Eyecare
3339 Wesbrook Mall V6S0B1 Vancouver, BC, Canada

Regular eye screenings with your optometrist are important to maintaining good eye health. Your doctor will check your eyesight and medical history to see if any treatments are necessary. Without an eye exam, problems can go undetected and become severe. Call us today to schedule your routine eye screening!

This is your daily reminder to wash your hands before putting in or taking out your contact lenses! Eye infections are more common than you think. Not taking the proper steps to cleaning your hands and lens case can lead to pink eye and other infections.

If you work in front of a computer all day, your eyes are being exposed to harmful blue light rays. This can lead to blurry eyesight, headaches, even back pain. Wearing prescription glasses that also protect from these harmful rays can preserve your eyesight! Call us today to learn more about the effects of blue light.

Your eyes are especially vulnerable to germs and infections. Even things that just irritate your eyes can affect your vision. For those reasons, you should always wash your hands before touching your eyes or handling your contact lenses!

If you aren't getting adequate sleep, sooner or later your eyes will likely show signs of fatigue and sleep deprivation. Aim to get to bed early enough to allow yourself to get a minimum of 7 to 9 hours of sleep!

Our practice specializes in examining if our patients are nearsighted, farsighted, or have an astigmatism. These factors can all affect your vision tremendously!

Eye exams can also find diseases, like glaucoma, that have no symptoms. It's important to spot them early on, when they're easier to treat.

Don't forget to take some time away from your screen to look around and enjoy everything else around you!

Maintaining your eye health is crucial to ensure that your eyes perform optimally as you age! Routine eye care exams are the best way to maintain optimal eye health! Contact us to schedule your next visit before the year ends!

Regular comprehensive eye exams can help you protect your sight and make sure that you are seeing your best, but also to screen for Glaucoma and detect other ocular diseases which can strike at any age!

Did you know that vision is SO important to humans that almost half of your brain’s capacity is dedicated to visual perception?

Fun fact for today: An iris has 256 unique characteristics! To put this in perspective, a fingerprint has only 40 unique characteristics. This is why retina scans are becoming increasingly popular for security!

Have you heard of computer eyewear? The simplest computer glasses have single vision lenses with a modified lens power prescribed to give the most comfortable vision at the user's computer screen. This lens power relaxes the amount of accommodation required to keep objects in focus at the distance of the computer screen and provides the largest field of view.

Just like the rest of our bodies, our eyes begin to weaken as we age. There are a number of common age-related eye conditions such as presbyopia, cataracts, and age-related macular degeneration that can begin to affect your vision and your daily life.

Eye benefits of beta-carotene: When taken in combination with zinc and vitamins C and E, beta-carotene may reduce the progression of macular degeneration.

Eye exams are critical because many vision threatening eye diseases such as glaucoma, macular degeneration, cataracts, or diabetic retinopathy have no or minimal symptoms until the disease has progressed! Call us to schedule yours today.

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Check out this image to test your knowledge on our visual system!

Periodic eye and vision examinations are an important part of preventive health care. Come visit us!

Our eyes contain around 107 million light-sensitive cells!

Myth or Fact? Reading in poor light will hurt the eyes. Before the invention of electric light, most nighttime reading and other work was done by dim candlelight or gaslight. Reading in dim light today won't harm our eyes any more than it did our ancestors' eyes or any more than taking a photograph in dim light will damage a camera.

Can you guess what the fastest muscle in your body is? A blink typically lasts 100-150 milliseconds.

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Facts! Make sure to be doing all that you can to preserve your eye health!

125 MILLION people wear contacts worldwide! Contacts are a great alternative for times when physical activity can come into play! Having a spare pare of contacts, even if you're a loyal glasses wearer, can be a great option to have if you decide last minute you want to take those glasses off and not worry! Give us a call today so that we can find the perfect pair of contacts for you!

Did you know that nature really is bliss? Veering your attention to nature has many benefits for your eyes! Looking at greenery is good for your eyes because studies have shown that the color green is very soothing to the eyes! Take a look away from your phone or laptop and look up at the nature around you!