Optometrist
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Chené Narothan is a clinical optometrist at Moorfields Eye Hospital Dubai, based in Dubai Healthcare City.
With over eight years of experience both regionally and internationally, she specialises in general and paediatric optometry, as well as the fitting of specialist contact lenses, including orthokeratology and myopia management.
Chené has practised in various medical institutions in South Africa and the UAE.
To further her expertise, Chené has completed advanced courses in scleral lenses, wavefront customised lenses, and myopia management. She holds a degree in Optometry from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, awarded in 2015.
Astigmatism is a refractive condition in which the eye’s optical system is incapable of forming a point image for a point object (images are misconstrued).
Hypermetropia is a common refractive condition of the eye in which vision is better for distant objects than for near objects. It can be called far-sightedness or hypermetropia.
It results from the eyeball being smaller than average, causing images to be focused behind the retina. In hypermetropia, the light is focused too far back in the eye, behind the retina, which causes things to look blurred close-up.
Many very young children have mild hypermetropia that gets better by itself as they grow older.
Myopia is a common refractive condition commonly referred to as near or short sightedness. People with Myopia can see near objects clearly but distant objects are blurry. Myopia occurs when the cornea and lens focus the light in front of the retina instead of exactly on it, usually because the eye is a little larger than it should be.
Presbyopia is a condition which makes it difficult to focus on close objects. With age, by the mid-forties, people experience blurred vision at close points, such as reading, sewing or working on a computer.
Presbyopia it is not a disease as it is a results of the natural ageing process of the eye and it cannot be prevented .