Filters prevent blindness of eyes that won’t open - The Times 19th May 2008

A British surgeon has hit upon a cure for people who suffer from a rare condition in which their eyes are tight closed. They can see, but are blind, because a rogue nerve triggers the muscles that control the eyelids, causing either compulsive blinking or total closure. Raman Malhotra, consultant ophthalmologist at Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, West Sussex, has found a simple method that helps about 40 per cent of those affected — putting a filter, mounted in an ordinary pair of glasses, in front of one of the eyes.

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