Ergonomics of vision legibility of road signs in reduction of traffic accidents

Road signs and traffic control devices in the Cairo Governorate area were with particular attention to design, placement, uniformity and maintaince. Several recommendations were concluded and delivered to the central Department of Traffic Police. We requested the removal of all traffic signs not complying to standards, re-placement of signs and adhesion to standards for conventional road guide signs

Measurement of inter-pupillary distance in different age groups of Egyptians

Fifty infants below 3 months of age with 62 eyes suffering from congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction were divided at random into two groups each contained 31 eyes. The first group was treated with gentamycin eye ointment and massage under pressure for their lacrimal passages and the second group with gentamycin eye ointment onlyTwenty two of the first group and 14 of the second group were cured before the age of 6 months. The remaining 26 eyes and another 34 new cases of congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction over 6 months of age were subjected to probing of their lacimal passages under general anesthesia

summer meeting - conjunctiva and cornea - effect of postoperative argon laser on recurrence of pterygium

Argon Laser photocoagulation to the invading blood vesseis in the bare area of the excised pterygium bed was done Sixty eyes of different types of pterygia were subjected, weekly for three weeks, to postoperative laserisation of invading blood vesseis. Cases were followed up clinically and photographically whenever possible for ten months. The results were very encouraging in reducing the recurrence rate

Strabismic amblyopia: practical considerations in diagnosis and management

The authors conducted a research project of screening children under the age of 10 for visual defect. They found that amblyopia constituted 6.0% of the total ophthalmic outpatient children, but 44.0% of the strabismic cases. Early treatment of amblyopia is essential but before commencing any treatment of this visual defect, appropriate correction of ametropia or anisometropia must be dealt with. The authors recommend a combination of part-time occlusion of the fixing eye and attentive visual exercises on television games using the amblyopic eye for 20 minutes twice daily until maximum vision is attained on two consecutive visits. The authors therapeutic regimen achieved 86% success rate

topical use of bee honey in the treatment of ocular diseases

The author inspired the idea of using honey in the treatment of some external ocular diseases from Sourat El-NahI in the Holy Quran; the meaning of which I shall do my very best to translate: "And thy God inspired the Bees, to take thou thatch, in hills on trees and in habitations, then to eat the nectar of flowers of all fruits, And follow the ways of thy Lord made smooth for thee, There cometh from within their bellies a drink of varying hues, Wherein is healing for mankind, Lo! herein is the portent for those who give thought"