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Speaker 1: There's a concerning number of eye infections being discovered across

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Speaker 1: the Ashburton at the moment. He's a friendly local optometrist

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Speaker 1: from Speaksavers on Cash Street, Michael Graft.

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Speaker 2: Most of the time it's bacterial infections or bacteria conjunctivitis.

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Speaker 2: You know that sticky giwey eye in the morning.

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Speaker 1: Man, We have had that and usually it's a family

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Speaker 1: of fear. It's full audience participation.

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Speaker 2: Children are super spread as of that.

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Speaker 1: But it actually is conjunctivitis.

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Speaker 2: It's an infection of the conjunct tiver there, so you

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Speaker 2: get the red eyes, the grittiness.

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Speaker 1: That's where the name comes from. Exactly what's its actual

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Speaker 1: function When it's not playing.

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Speaker 2: Up as protecting the eye, it helps spread the tears.

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Speaker 2: It's that translucent area on the whites of your eyes.

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Speaker 1: And so when we're getting gunky eyes from conjunct dividers,

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Speaker 1: is that it performing its function in a good way

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Speaker 1: or is that it playing up?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So it's the eyes response there to overpopulation of

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Speaker 2: the bacteria and the actual eyes it's fighting that infection there.

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Speaker 2: But that's why you get all those symptoms with the

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Speaker 2: gunkiness and the redness, that's a good thing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, so that would be the most common one, Yes.

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Speaker 2: Is the most common, and that's quite mild, so yeah's good.

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Speaker 2: We can definitely make sure that that clears up a

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Speaker 2: bit quicker so that you can get back to school

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Speaker 2: or back to work a lot quicker. As long as

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Speaker 2: there's not any significant pain or blurry vision. That's most

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Speaker 2: likely conjunctivitis. If you do have pain or blurry vision,

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Speaker 2: that could be something more serious, and would definitely want

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Speaker 2: to see that as soon as possible.

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Speaker 1: Oh so what's some examples of that?

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Speaker 2: Yes, a good question. So the most common one is

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Speaker 2: probably a bacterial caratitis, which is an infection of your

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Speaker 2: cornea and that can cause vision loss, painful red eye,

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Speaker 2: and it's not very nice. So we want to get

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Speaker 2: onto that serious, yes, as soon as possible. And I

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Speaker 2: would say if you notice any of those and you're

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Speaker 2: a contact lens wearer, you're probably at the highest risk.

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Speaker 2: So if that's you, take your contact lens out and

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Speaker 2: come try and see us straight away.

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Speaker 1: So it's a good point to make there. This is

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Speaker 1: all stuff that we can come and see you guys

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Speaker 1: about as opposed to our GP because often you hear

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Speaker 1: of the wake times getting into a getting into a doctor.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it can be sometimes weeks, even with the doctors

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Speaker 2: so we can prescribe the medications needed to treat those infections.

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Speaker 2: Generally we can be quite flexible. But yeah, give us

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Speaker 2: a call and then we can definitely work out a

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Speaker 2: time to see and treat you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and often it can be same day.

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Speaker 2: Usually we'll try rejick things around, but yeah, usually we

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Speaker 2: can see you on the same day.

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Speaker 1: Is it weird to see such a spike of infections

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Speaker 1: this time of the year. It is.

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Speaker 2: I haven't really sort of noticed it before.

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Speaker 1: Just another thing we can put the cruddy withather down to.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe more people spinning inside and.

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Speaker 1: Things like that, if it's such a rough run a today,

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Speaker 1: hopefully backing that trend, hopefully clearing up some eyes. And

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Speaker 1: of course when we get a dose of the sunshine

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Speaker 1: can be quite contrasting, so then the shades come out.

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Speaker 1: This is me segueing to the current deal that we've

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Speaker 1: got at the moment, the chance to get free polarizing

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Speaker 1: in the second peer. Is this such an advantage?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So polarized lenses are great at cutting out glare.

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Speaker 2: So this is light being reflected off different services and

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Speaker 2: can just improve the vision and make sure that you're

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Speaker 2: not squinting as much when it is those bright, cleary days.

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Speaker 1: So that runs until sat Today, Yes.

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Speaker 2: Saturday the twenty eighth, that's when that promotion finishes. And

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Speaker 2: also our half priced exams are running until the twenty

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Speaker 2: eighth of February as well.

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Speaker 1: Oh, a lot of reason to run don't walk to

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Speaker 1: Specsavers on Cash Street. Appreciate the catch up as always,

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Speaker 1: Michael

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much for having me