Tharshika Varathalingam
Optometrist
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Biography
Tash is an Optometrist at Moorfields Eye Hospital Dubai in Dubai Healthcare City.
With over nine years of international experience in Optometry, she is experienced in refracting adults and children of all ages. She has expertise in fitting soft and gas-permeable contact lenses, conducting ocular health examinations, and dispensing ophthalmic lenses in the United Kingdom.
In her career, she has practiced in a community-based setting and played a significant role in providing Enhanced Optical Services through the NHS. Her duties included conducting pre- and post-operative Cataract assessments as well as refining Glaucoma referrals to manage hospital service referrals in London.
She began her career in 2013 as a Dispensing Optician after completing the necessary qualifications. In 2015, she earned a Bachelor of Science in Optometry from City University of London. Additionally, she has obtained accreditations from Wales Optometry Postgraduate Education Centre in Glaucoma, Cataract, and minor eye conditions services.
Services Provided by Tharshika Varathalingam
Myopia
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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.
Hypermetropia
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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.
Astigmatism
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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).
Presbyopia
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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 .
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