Are You Protecting Your Eyes?

You may want to think twice about leaving your sunglasses behind when you enjoy the outdoors.

According to the American Cancer Society, 10 percent of skin cancer ends up happening on your eye lids.

When getting your daily dose of Vitamin D, people usually throw their shades on.

While wearing her sunglasses, Nichole Boyd said”I do, I wear them to protect my eyes from the sun, and to prevent those crow’s feet”

Not only to help prevent crow’s feet, but it can help avoid eye lid cancer and even eye cancer itself

Reports by the National Cancer Institute show men in the U.S. have seen almost a 300 percent increase in eye cancer in the past three decades.

Bergstrom Eye and Laser Clinc’s OB Nicole Collins said, “Worst case scenario is a loss of an eye, where they do an enucleation and actually take the eye out.”

The best way of prevention is actually get your eyes dilated in an eye exam.

“If something doesn’t seem right or a friend or your colleague is noticing some sort of pigment just to have it checked, it’s really the only way, it’s better safe than sorry,”said Collins.

Getting a yearly exam is something one patient at the eye clinic says is imperative.

After her eye appointment Pat Pflugrath said, “Well in order to find out things that you don’t know what’s wrong with you, and to find out like i did that i needed cataract surgery.”

And spotting out things early with an eye exam could save your sight down the road.

And according to doctors there is no exact cause of most eye cancers.