Drinking milk may also make some people produce more mucus. Kao says that's due to gustatory rhinitis, a reflex reaction that's triggered by eating. Gustatory rhinitis is also why your nose runs when you eat hot peppers. Milk proteins cause the same type of response in some people.
LASIK, or laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis, is the most commonly performed laser eye surgery to treat myopia (nearsightedness), hyperopia (farsightedness) and astigmatism. Like other types of refractive surgery, the LASIK procedure reshapes the cornea to enable light entering the eye to be properly focused onto the retina for clearer vision. In most cases, laser eye surgery is pain-free and completed within 15 minutes for both eyes.
Cost by technology. In the early days of laser vision correction, only one laser machine, the excimer laser, was used. Today, the most widely performed procedures, LASIK, requires two lasers â the femtosecond laser and the excimer laser. Then thereâs the latest procedure, SMILE, which uses one laser, the femtosecond laser.