Eating for Your Eyes is a tabbed patient guide your practice sends by link — what to eat for dry eye, macular degeneration, diabetes and more, what supplements are worth, and which myths to stop paying for. Written for South African plates and South African budgets.
Send the link and it can open on the right section for that patient. Nothing they do on the page is recorded or sent anywhere.
Greens most days, oily fish twice a week, something orange, less sugar, no smoking — the habits that do more than anything sold in a bottle.
Why the tear film's problem is usually oil, not water — and where omega-3s genuinely fit alongside everything else you prescribe.
Lutein, zeaxanthin and the foods that carry them, cooked so the body actually absorbs them — with smoking named for what it is.
The plainest message in the guide: keeping glucose in range protects sight more than any supplement can, and appointments still matter when eyes feel fine.
What diet can and can't do for pressure and lens changes, and how to feed growing eyes — without turning dinner into a pharmacy.
Real trolleys — pilchards, morogo, butternut, eggs — an honest supplements section, and a myths section that saves patients money.
The guide opens with the two sentences your patients most need to hear — because the person selling them a miracle supplement won't say either.
Eating well lowers risk and supports treatment. It does not replace drops, diabetes medication or injections — and patients who swap medicine for supplements are the ones most likely to lose sight.
You cannot feel raised eye pressure or early diabetic damage. Whatever they eat, the guide keeps saying the same thing: keep your eye appointments.
Billed monthly, in Rand. The most affordable door into the Digital Optometry Solutions family.
It is patient education, and it says so plainly. The guide's two loudest messages are that no food cures eye disease and that eating well never replaces prescribed treatment. It supports your management plan — it never competes with it.
You send a link — on WhatsApp, in an email, on a recall message — and the page opens on the section that applies to them. It reads in about five minutes, works on any phone, and records nothing.
Yes. The shopping guidance is built around morogo, imifino, pilchards, maasbanker, butternut and pawpaw — food people actually buy — with cost front of mind. Two tins of pilchards a week does the omega-3 job, and the guide says so.
No. The supplements section is honest about what has evidence and for whom, and the myths section exists to stop patients spending grant money on bottles that do nothing. That honesty is the product.
Give them a link instead of a rushed sentence — and give the miracle-supplement industry one less customer.