Women Health and Environment

Lasik eye surgery is a miracle for long-term wearers of contact lenses or glasses. Lasik surgery involves removal of corneal tissue with a laser to change the way if focuses light on the retina, the part of the eye that receives the light image.

The procedure is truly amazing: One day you can’t recognize a friend standing 20 feet in front of you and the next day you have eyes like a hawk.

Lasik can be a nightmare for other people– it can leave them with worse vision than they had in the first place and require follow-up surgery. Researchers from the Wake Forest University Eye Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, found that humidity in the operating room or environment can affect the success of the surgery. Poor surgical outcome resulting in more treatment increased by 10 percent when humidity was high in the operating room or in the environment during the weeks before or after the surgery.

The success of the surgery depends largely on the calculation made on the eye before the surgery. Humidity changes the shape of the eye, making it more difficult to make precise and accurate calculations. You have only one set of eyes. The study suggests that you should have the surgery done during less humid times of the year.