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LOW-VISION TIPS

Low-vision living for your kitchen

Whether you're making a snack for yourself or preparing a feast for friends and family, these tips can help you create a more low-vision–friendly kitchen:

  • Create a System: Make sure all of your utensils, spices, and ingredients have their own place in the kitchen. Then make it a habit to put things away as soon as you are finished using them so they are easily found the next time. (You may need to ask family members to adopt your “system” so they don't put things back in the wrong place!)

  • Keep Cabinets Fully Closed or Fully Open: You can also try using contrasting tape (try white or black tape depending on the color of your cabinets) on the insides or backs of cabinet doors to make it easier to tell if one is open. Or install contrasting cabinet knobs or handles.

  • Perfect the Art of Touch: Tactile markings can help you tell the difference between similar types of containers. For example, wrap a rubber band around the juice container to tell it apart from the milk.

  • Sniff First, Sprinkle Second: There's nothing like mistaking pepper for cinnamon—so follow your nose when you're not sure!

  • Adopt the Art of Contrast: Use a cutting board that contrasts in color with the items you're slicing and dicing. Try to get a white cutting board and a black cutting board for your kitchen. So when you're cutting up meat, use the white cutting board. Need to cut an onion? Use the black one. Also, use oven mitts, dishtowels, and utensils that contrast with your countertops to make them easier to find.

  • Measure Up: It can be tough to see the lines for each measure on a standard measuring cup. So try using divided measuring cups instead. They are generally easier to use. Even better: they are available in different colors, so you can adopt the color-contrast techniques described above.

Who is LUCENTIS for?

LUCENTIS® (ranibizumab injection) is a prescription medicine for the treatment of patients with Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) and Macular Edema following Retinal Vein Occlusion (RVO).

What important safety information should I know about LUCENTIS?

LUCENTIS is a prescription medication given by injection into the eye, and it has side effects. Some LUCENTIS patients have had detached retinas and serious infections inside the eye. LUCENTIS should not be used in patients who have an infection in or around the eye or are allergic to LUCENTIS or any of its ingredients.

Although not common, LUCENTIS patients have had eye- and non–eye-related blood clots (heart attacks, strokes, and death).

Some patients have increases in eye pressure within 1 hour of an injection.

Serious side effects include inflammation inside the eye, and rarely, problems related to the injection procedure, such as developing a cataract. These can make your vision worse.

The most common side effects to your eye are increased redness in the whites of your eye, eye pain, small specks in vision, the feeling that something is in your eye. The most common non–eye-related side effects are nose and throat infections, headache, and respiratory (lung) infections.

If your eye becomes red, sensitive to light, painful, or has a change in vision, you should call or visit your eye doctor right away.

For additional safety information, please talk to your doctor and also see the LUCENTIS full prescribing information.