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.
Dec. 12, 2015. LASIK (laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis) is an outpatient refractive surgery procedure used to treat nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism. A laser is used to reshape the cornea â the clear, round dome at the front of the eye â to improve the way the eye focuses light rays onto the retina at the back of the eye. With LASIK, an ophthalmologist creates a thin flap in the cornea using either a blade or a laser.
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.