Dr. Kristina Iljina

• Dr. Kristina Iljina is a qualified and experienced optometrist with over 15 years of expertise. She understands various aspects of comprehensive eye care and vision health.
• She can provide a second opinion regarding the patient’s eyesight problems such as colour blindness, visual stress, photosensitive migraine, farsightedness, nearsightedness, astigmatism, red eye, and low vision.
• Additionally, she can prescribe some medications, therapeutic filters, professional magnifying optical devices, and corrective lenses for different professions and low vision.
• Some of the other eye defects she can assess include glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, cataracts, optic nerve atrophy, and retinal disorders, and organize a referral to a private clinic in the United Kingdom.
• She completed her master’s degree in vision science, practical optometry, and clinical diagnostic methods, and has a higher professional education diploma in optometry from the University of Latvia.
• She is registered with the Health Inspectorate Republic of Latvia as an optometrist.
• She has completed her adaptation course at the Glasgow Caledonian University and Boots Opticians and registered as a fully qualified optometrist with the GOC in the United Kingdom.
• She has worked at prestigious hospitals and clinics in the past. She has work experience at the Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in England, the Medical firm Dziednieciba LLC in Latvia, and other optical companies in Latvia and the United Kingdom.
• In her role as an optometrist, Dr. Iljina has collaborated with ophthalmologists, general physicians, and other medical specialists to provide occupational health assessments.

Conditions treated by Dr. Kristina Iljina

• Nearsightedness (myopia).
• Farsightedness (hyperopia).
• Astigmatism.
• Double vision (diplopia).
• Presbyopia.
• Amblyopia (lazy eye).
• Color blindness.

Area of Interest

• Eye Disease and Vision Problems