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La Pine Eyecare

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La Pine Eyecare

We are a full-service optometry clinic here to provide for all of your eyecare & vision needs.

We accept most vision and medical insurance plans and are conveniently located in La Pine on Third Street between Highway 97 and Huntington Road.

11/05/2025

Protecting Your Vision As You Age!

Avoid UV rays:
Always be sure to wear sunglasses when you are going to be outdoors or driving, even if the weather is cloudy.

Stay active and eat a well-balanced diet:
Keeping an active lifestyle is beneficial for the entire body, including your eyes.
Eating a well-balanced diet full of antioxidants can also help to keep your eyes functioning at their peak as you age.

Annual exams:
Annual comprehensive exams enable your optometrist to catch early signs of eye conditions and allow them to make sure your eyes are functioning as they should.
This helps optometrist determine your risk for major eye diseases and conditions as well as update your prescription as needed to help you see as clearly as possible.

11/04/2025

Safely Enjoy the Summer Sun

Summer is finally here and all the outdoor activities that come with it. We all want to enjoy the sun, but what are some of the steps we need to take to keep our eyes healthy and our vision sharp?

Please, consult with your eye care professional for proper protective eyewear to prevent injury. If you do find yourself with an eye injury, eye pain, or foreign body in your eye, please come in for a visit.

11/03/2025

Children’s Eye Examinations

A child’s eyes go through many changes during the early years of their lives.
During this time, eye health examinations by an eye care professional are critical to ensuring proper development of the visual system.

Many parents do not think to take their child for an eye examination unless they suspect a vision problem. As a result, many children are undiagnosed and enter into an academic environment without all of the proper visual skills needed for learning.

Our children deserve bright futures. The sooner eye problems are identified and treated, the better the outcome.

Reach out to La Pine Eyecare at 541-536-2911 to schedule your appointment today.

10/24/2025

When Do You Finally Need To Get Glasses for Reading?

The symptoms of when to get glasses for reading often start as we get older. The lenses in our eyes are less pliable, which makes it difficult for us to view nearby objects with much clarity. .

Besides lack of clarity, here are the other signs of when to get glasses for reading:

✔️You experience eye fatigue while reading. Tired eyes and eye pain are common symptoms of presbyopia, which strains your eyes.
✔️Written text is blurry. It can be challenging for you to identify small words in low light on your books, devices, or magazines. Over time, it can become difficult for your eyes to focus on things close to you, making the text appear blurry.
✔️Reading gives you a headache. Reading something at close range for long periods can cause eye strain and headaches. This could also be a sign of a refractive error, such as farsightedness.
✔️You have to turn up the light. You may no longer be able to read in low light. Now, you may need to increase the brightness of the room to see what you’re reading.

10/23/2025

How Our Eyesight Changes as We Age

It’s essential to stay on the watch for signs of age-related vision loss the older we get. As eye health professionals, one of our priorities is making sure our patients are informed.

These are some of the most common vision changes associated with age:

✔️Slight changes in color perception. The clear lens in the eye can discolor, distorting the colors we see somewhat.
✔️Increased sensitivity to glare. This can be particularly difficult while driving.
✔️Needing more light to see by. As we get older, we often need more light to see by, so you might start needing a few more work lamps and reading lights in your life.
✔️Greater difficulty seeing to read and do close work. Over time, the lenses in our eyes can become less flexible, making it harder to focus on close-up things. This is called presbyopia.

Many of these eye conditions can be treated, delayed, or even reversed, and improvements in technology and science may lead to even better prognoses in the future. Early detection is critical, which is why regular eye exams are so important as we get older.

10/22/2025

Prescription Sunglasses

You may sometimes find yourself driving down the road, sun shining in your eyes, as you search in vain for those clip-on or magnetically attached sun lenses that came with your prescription eyeglasses.

with prescription sunglasses, you have the option of wearing them anytime outdoors without the need to search for clip-on sunglasses or deal with contact lenses.

Prescription sunglasses are available for virtually any lens prescription, including bifocal and progressive lens options if you are presbyopic and need lenses to help you read that magazine or book at the pool.

Stop by and check in to see what your options would be for prescription sunglasses!

10/21/2025

What does "20/20" mean in an eye test?

In the United States, the standard placement of the eye chart is on a wall that's 20 feet away from your eyes. Since many eye doctors' offices don't have rooms that are 20 feet long, in a smaller room the eye chart may hang behind the patient chair, using mirrors to make it appear in front of you at a simulated distance of 20 feet.

20/20 vision is considered "normal" vision, meaning you can read at 20 feet a letter that most human beings should be able to read at 20 feet.

Eye charts can be configured in various ways, but generally, if during an eye test you can read the big E at the top but none of the letters lower than that, your vision is considered 20/200. That means you can read at 20 feet a letter that people with "normal" vision can read at 200 feet. So at 20/200, your visual acuity is very poor.

10/20/2025

Do I have Eye Allergies?

Know the symptoms of seasonal eye allergies and how to get rid of this pesky problem:

Nasal symptoms of seasonal allergies, like a runny nose and sneezing, usually get all the attention, but actually, eye allergies are pretty common. Grass allergy and pollen in the eyes are the primary cause of eye irritation.

Grass allergy and pollen in your eyes are the most typical triggers for seasonal eye allergies, often called hay fever. Since that’s the case, you’re probably wondering how you can possibly avoid these widespread allergens. Before you lock yourself in your room and wait for the seasons to change, our eye doctor recommends:

✅Keep windows closed when the pollen count is high. Use a/c in your home, office, and car in order to clean the air around you.
✅Do not rub your eyes! This spreads the pollen (and irritation!) all over.
✅When you are outdoors, always wear glasses and sunglasses to keep pollen out of your eyes. Don’t wear your contacts! Contact lenses can exacerbate eye allergies because they are a great surface for pollen to cling to and pile up.
✅When you return indoors after being exposed to seasonal allergens, rinse your eyes with saline drops.
✅Clean your floors with a damp rag, instead of sweeping with a dry broom that pushes any pollen that’s settled back into the air.

10/17/2025

Should I Wipe the Fog off My Glasses With My Shirt?

If you’re like most of us, you wear your glasses daily. And it’s easy to reach for your t-shirt to clean the lenses if you do.

The answer to, ‘Should I wipe the fog off my glasses with my shirt?’, is always no. Instead of using your shirt to clean your glasses or remove smudging, store a microfiber cloth in your purse for easy access. Before you use it, remember to wash your hands.

You can also use these tips for cleaning your eyewear:
-Rinse your eyewear in lukewarm water–never hot.
-Use a gentle soap, eyeglass cleaning solution, or lens
wipes to clean your glasses.
-Dry your eyewear with a microfiber cloth or a cleaning
cloth from your eye doctor

10/16/2025

Is It Time For An Eye Exam?

When was the last time you came in for an eye exam?
If you don’t need a new glasses prescription, it might not seem necessary to schedule another eye exam, but eyes are very complicated organs with a lot of ways for things to go wrong. That’s why it’s important to make sure they’re working the way they should on a regular basis.

It can be easy to forget about something that typically only comes around once every two years, but we strongly urge you not to forget about your eye exams.

Thank you for all your support throughout the years and for trusting in our team to take care of your eye needs. We strive for greatness and provide patient education on the newest products and health information so you don't have to worry about it!

10/15/2025

Are You Protecting Your Eyes at Work?

Eye Health in the Office:
Eye health might not be something you think about too much if you have an office job. You might not be working with dangerous machinery or chemicals, but there is still a significant chance for someone who works at a computer for most of the day to develop digital eye strain, also called computer vision syndrome.

Eye Safety and Physical Labor:
Not all jobs are in an office. Jobs like carpentry, construction, manufacturing, auto repair, electrical work, maintenance, welding, plumbing, mining, and even working in a lab pose a significant risk of eye injury. Every day, at least two thousand workers in these fields are treated for eye injuries.

Whether you’ve been experiencing symptoms of eye strain or are concerned about the eye protection you’ve been using at your worksite, we’re here to answer all of your questions about eye safety. Give us a call or stop by, and schedule an appointment if it’s been a long time since your last one!

10/14/2025

How Germs Travel To Our Eyes

Many types of microorganisms live on our skin all the time, including on our faces and hands. This microscopic ecosystem is known as “skin flora,” and it can contain around a thousand species of bacteria, as well as viruses and other germs. Some are beneficial, while others could lead to disease or infection, especially if they get into our eyes.

It’s especially important to keep fingernails trimmed to prevent the transfer of germs to our eyes. All kinds of germs and debris collect under them from everything else we touch throughout the day, and it is almost impossible to clean them well enough when they’re long. In fact, germs collecting under fingernails is the main reason medical professionals wear gloves when interacting with patients!

Sometimes, touching our eyes is unavoidable. People who wear contact lenses obviously have to touch their eyes every time they insert and remove them.

On the whole, it’s best to keep contact to a minimum, but at the very least, we should be thoroughly washing our hands with soap prior to touching our eyes.

Address

16410 3rd Street Suite A
La Pine, OR
97739

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 5pm
Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5pm
Thursday	8am - 5pm
Friday	8am - 2pm

Telephone

+15415362911

Website

https://lapineeyecare.com/

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