Shon Prasad

Clinical Optometrist | Dry Eye & Soft Contact Lens expertise

18/01/2026

Evaporative Dry Eye 👁️💨

Evaporative dry eye happens when your tears dry up too quickly, even though your eyes may be making enough tears.

🧠 Why does this happen?
The outer oil layer of your tears isn’t working properly — often due to blocked or poor-quality oil glands (meibomian glands). Without enough oil, tears evaporate faster.

🔥 Common symptoms

Burning or stinging

Gritty or sandy feeling

Redness

Blurry vision that comes and goes

Worse with screens, air-conditioning, or wind

🔍 Common causes

Meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD)

Prolonged screen use (less blinking)

Contact lens wear

Dry or air-conditioned environment

14/01/2026

Myth busting!
Will wearing glasses make my eyesight worse?

No — wearing glasses does not make your eyesight worse. 👓

They just correct how light enters the eye so you can see clearly.

Your prescription can change over time, but that’s due to natural eye growth, ageing, or eye conditions — not because you wore glasses.

Not wearing glasses won’t “strengthen” your eyes. In fact, it can lead to eye strain, headaches, or blurry vision.

Kids and teens often need prescription updates as their eyes grow — this would happen whether or not they wore glasses.

Adults may notice changes from things like presbyopia (age-related near vision changes), again unrelated to glasses use.

13/01/2026

Your eye is like a tiny, amazing camera 👁️✨

The tear film keeps it smooth and protected 💧

The cornea bends light to focus it 🔍

The lens fine-tunes your focus 👓

The macula helps you see fine details 🎯

And the optic nerve sends it all to your brain 🧠

Every layer works together so you can see the world clearly! 🌎👀

09/01/2026

Ever wake up with sore, red, or irritated eyes? 😩 It might not just be “dry eyes.” 😴

Floppy Eyelid Syndrome (FES) is a condition where the eyelids are unusually loose and may not close properly during sleep. This exposes the eye surface overnight, leading to redness, irritation, discharge, and blurry vision in the morning. 👁️

What’s important to know is that Floppy Eyelid Syndrome is strongly linked to Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). 💡

06/01/2026

Have you ever seen your Optometrist use a Retinoscope? 🧐

31/12/2025

Queensland Regional Series! Here we go! 🚀

Join me in 2026 as I travel around QLD and have the opportunity to speak about a topic that haunts Optometrists: "Red Eyes" 👻. We'll discuss cases, how to explain to patients better, and how to fit them into your normal clinical day. 🤓

Looking forward to meeting all the Optometrists out there! 👋

30/12/2025

Figure out what strength of reading glasses you need by your age! 🤓👓

28/12/2025

P.s. I am on TikTok

Check it out, some of the tools in optometry! 👓🔬

26/12/2025

What is astigmatism? 🤔👁️

23/12/2025

What is a slit lamp? 🧐🔬 Optometry

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