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The Hamilton-Veale Eye Test is essential:

For all doctors use, in consulting rooms, home and for rest home visits.

The eye test includes:
- Distance Vision Test
- Near Vision
- Macular Check
All on one card!

Worried about your vision? Test your own eyes at home.

Seeing is our most important sense. About 80% of all our knowledge and management of daily life skills, are done by our vision. All medical doctors include a visual check, and in developed countries, vision is tested from birth, right through life, regularly. As we age, vision in general deteriorates. As a result, Eye Specialists recommend regular eye checks. These will include:
1. Refraction - calculation of the power of the eyes.
2. Media examination- to check for cataracts and other opacities.
3. Fundii examination - to observe the integrity of the back of the eye.
4. Intraocular pressure - to exclude glaucoma or the possible development of glaucoma.

And, of course, the eyes ability to see.

Distance Vision is checked by a Snellen Chart. Each eye is checked to record the smallest letters seen.

Near Vision is checked on a chart like the Rose-Blackbirds near chart. Use your normal reading glasses.

Distortion of Vision is checked on an Amsler Chart.

These three important eye tests are available on the Hamilton-Veale Eye Test. It can be used by General Practitioners, Doctors, Nurses, School Teachers, People working with older folk, or by yourself.

The chart is simple to use:

The 3-metre Distance Chart should be placed at three metres or 10 feet. Hold your hand over one eye and read down to the smallest line. Record the letter under the line achieved, I.E. 9=6/9 12=6/12. Read down with the other eye and record, then do the same with both eyes looking.

The Log MAR Reading Test should be done holding the chart in your hands at your normal reading distance. Use your normal reading glasses. Test each eye, covering the other and reading to the smallest row seen. Record the N level, for example, N8 right, N12 left, N8 both eyes.

The Amsler Grid Eye Chart should be used to test distortion of vision in each eye individually. Look closely at the spot in the centre of the grid. If there is any distortion observed at all, an immediate eye examination is essential. Distortion of the lines will often indicate retinal changes and that could be due to numerous causes and especially macular changes. If the lines are grey or there are blank areas on the grid, media opacities or field loss, could be the cause. Immediate consultation with your Eye Specialist is essential. Urgent self referral may save your vision.

Cataracts
If you have been diagnosed with cataracts, a drop in your ability to see as clearly from your last eye test, may indicate that the cataract has got worse.

Macular Degeneration
If there is a drop in visual acuity at distance or near, or there is distortion or shadows on the Amsler Chart, an urgent Eye Specialists consultation is necessary.

Glaucoma
Regular eye checks are required if glaucoma is diagnosed, but if there is a loss of visual acuity or greyness observed when testing on the Hamilton-Veale Eye Test, an urgent consultation with your Eye Specialist is recommended.

Refraction
As we age, all of us will have a change in the power of the eyes. A power anomaly will result in poor visual acuity and this can be detected by the Hamilton-Veale Eye Test, and an optometrist eye examination is indicated.

Diabetic Retinopathy
Can lead to a loss of visual acuity and distortion on the Amsler Grid Eye Chart and an urgent consultation with an Eye Specialist is essential.

Test your Own Eyes
Why test my own eyes using a portable eye test? Eye examinations are expensive. However, they are the only way a diagnosis can be made, which would lead to treating the visual problem.
There is no harm done testing your own eyes at home regularly, as if deterioration is noticed, and an Eye Specialist's consultation sought, you may save your sight. It is well recognised that the earlier a diagnosis or help is sort, the more chance that sight can be saved.

If you are concerned about a loss of vision, now or in the future, you should test your eyes at home from time to time using a home eye test. It is important to record your findings. On the calendar is a good place. If a change or loss in vision is detected, a prompt call to your Eye Specialist is advised. In that way your vision could be saved.

Many people do not notice a loss in one eye, so test each eye individually.

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SIGHT SAVER - The Hamilton Veale Macular Check

Early detection of cellular changes due to macular degeneration could save your sight.

TEST your eyes with Macular Check and save your eyesight from macular degeneration.

Early detection is Most Important.

Macular degeneration can be treated by an eye specialist especially if it is treated early.

The Hamilton-Veale Macular Check is a simple 3 part macular degeneration test of each eye and comes with full instructions.

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1 The Hamilton-Veale Macular Check reveals visual distortion due to changes in the retinal cells of the macula. Any subtle changes of retinal integrity can indicate the start of macular degeneration.

2 The Hamilton-Veale Macular Check tests near vision for acuity and loss of small amounts of central field of vision.
Loss of small numbers of grouped macular cells will cause a blur of a letter or word in a sentence and cause difficulty in reading, and accuracy of near detailed tasks.

3 The Hamilton-Veale Macular Check tests for the loss of peripheral contrast sensitivity of the macular, which measures the first subtle loss of retinal cells.

The Hamilton-Veale Macular Check should be used by all Eye Specialists, Optometrists and Doctors in all spheres of eye care and general well being and also general practitioners and all other workers in the healthcare field.

It is an essential clinical tool for the evaluation of the integrity of central vision

The Hamilton-Veale Macular Check can be used at home for people at risk of macular changes including macular degeneration.

A recorded deterioration is the indication of an immediate eye specialists appointment.

What is the Macula?

This is the most frequently asked question in my practice.
The macula is a small area at the center of the back of the eye and about the size of a pin head.

In that area there are up to 8 million retinal cells.
Each cell is connected to a network of nerve fibres which take the signals up to the brain.

We see with the result of these signals in the brain.

Each retinal cell is like a minute battery and once it has sent the signal it needs to recharge, and the energy for the recharging comes from the blood in the capillaries behind the macular cells.

Macular degeneration is the loss of the macular cells due to:
1) Ageing change of the integrity of the capillaries
2) Swelling between the cells and within the cells
3) Sometimes new blood vessel growth due to less energy to the macular cells resulting in loss of macular cells
4) Normal age changes

How does this affect vision?

The macula is the size of your fist if you hold it out in front of you.

Hold your clenched fist out at arms length and looking at your fist, move it over objects in front of you. It will block out the TV, faces and other details.Your side vision will be normal.
That's what Macular degeneration does. It blurs on knocks out the central, detailed vision.

Why is this?

Our vision is divided into 2 functions.

Side vision: that sees movement : and central vision that sees detail.

A movement is seen out to the side and we move our eyes and head to place the macular on the movement, so that we can see the detail. It is the macula that sees the detail and it is the sensitive nature of the macular cells that are vulnerable.

Many people do not notice a loss in one eye, so test each eye individually.