Your eyes are amazing, complex, highly sensitive organs that, simply put, are responsible for receiving the light that enters it, converting it in the retina and transmitting it to the brain via nerve cells at the visual cortex . This ‘data’ is formed into an image, providing what we all know as vision.

The eyes are often described as the ‘windows to the soul’ and they are certainly ‘windows to our health’. Eye care practitioners use the examination of the eye to look into the body in a way that no other medical examination can reveal not just the state of health of the eye itself but also to detect general health problems like hypertension and diabetes.