Blog - Eye care

Itchy, irritated or crusty eyelids? Demodex may be part of the problem.Demodex are microscopic mites that can live naturally around the hair follicles and oil glands of our skin — including around the eyelashes. We have a Plan to Rid your eyes of mites and Return Relief to your eyelids and lashes with our Therapeutic Optometrists Tim and Kent.

At Shattkys we use many different types of Contact lenses to achieve great vision for our patients who suffer from poor vision due to Keratoconus.

You the Parents of 'Young Kids with Myopia whose vision is getting blurrier', always have many questions as they discover the possibilities. Low Dose Atropine Eye drops have a low risk and a good success, but where is the research?

Misight Contact Lenses can correct your childs vision and at the same time give their visual system a chance to slow the progression of their Myopia. Only accredited Optometrists can prescribe this lens for your child.

Shattky's has been committed to this for many years, we are big enough to make the capital investment in the latest equipment and then we use it fully and frequently.

The Annual awareness appeal focuses on getting people to have their eyes examined, raises awareness of glaucoma and generates valuable funds for GNZ's ongoing initiatives. This is an important community health initiative, and we optometrists play an extremely important role in preventing blindness from glaucoma.