Posts tagged covid19
Visiting the Eye Doctor During the Pandemic

The pandemic has thrown all of us for a loop and required us to delay, change or cancel many plans in the last year. Like many families, my kids were all due for their eye doctor check ups last March - naturally, the week after the lockdown was announced. I postponed their appointments until it seemed a bit safer to enter an office. I finally decided it was time this fall and took all three kids one morning. Now that we’ve been living with this virus for a while, I felt very safe with the precautions the doctor and his staff had in place and was happy to check this important task off of our to-do list.

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Health Tips from Dr. Stacy Pineles, LA Mom & Ophthalmologist

During this unique time, advice is pretty uniformly “stay home, don’t touch your face and wash your hands frequently”. How do glasses factor in? Can they play a part in our health? Here are a few thoughts from Dr. Stacy L. Pineles, MD,MS and Director of Ophthalmology at UCLA.

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Keeping Your Eyes Germ Free

Hope you are hanging in during what has felt like the most surreal/scary extended period of time for many of us as parents. As I’m trying to desperately keep all of the hands clean in my household, a few things have occurred to me that have helped me and my family and I wanted to share them with you:

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