Channel Islands Optometric Center

Your eyes are huge data processing machines perhaps not in size, but definitely in their ability to collect data. The eye takes in more than 36,000 pieces of data each hour, which averages to about 24 million images in a lifetime. We want to make sure your eyes can keep up with all that information.

The expression ‘in the blink of an eye’ evolved because the eye is the fastest muscle in the body. Blinking helps remove debris from the surface of the eye by spreading tears over them. The tears help lubricate the eye and also have anti-bacterial properties.

Has reading street signs and highway billboards become more difficult lately? Or perhaps words in a book or on a menu have begun to fade or blur. If your vision has changed in any way, it’s time to see an optometrist.