Trust
Editorial policy
This policy is the public contract for every page on Eye Health Guide. It explains who writes, who reviews, what we will not publish, and how a reader can force a correction.
Last updated August 2026
What is this site for — and who should skip it?
Use Eye Health Guide to understand symptoms, common conditions, treatments and when to seek care in plain language. Skip it if you need a personal diagnosis, a prescription, or emergency treatment — those require a clinician who can examine you. Sudden vision loss, severe eye pain, injury, or new flashes and floaters are not “read later” problems.
The site exists because search and answer engines often compress eye advice into a sentence that misses urgency. Our job is to make the first extractable answer honest: what the problem usually is, what it is not, and who should be seen today.
We are a public-interest library, not a clinic and not an advertising network. Pages are free to read. There is no account and no paywall.
How is a page written and reviewed?
A page starts as a structured brief: the reader’s question, a 40–60-word standalone answer, red flags, and links to related symptoms or treatments. Copy is drafted in plain language, then checked for clinical caution, missing emergencies, and broken internal links before it is marked reviewed.
The visible byline names Mr Mohamed Mohyudin, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon (GMC 7039600). In the UK, consultant surgeons use the title “Mr” rather than “Dr”. Review covers accuracy, urgency advice, and whether the page over-promises. Reviewers do not diagnose readers through the site.
Spanish and Indonesian editions are written for those readers — not machine-dumped from English — and held to the same caution standard. If a translation is unclear, that is a defect: tell us.
- Question-shaped headings so an answer engine can lift one section
- A Quick answer block that makes sense with no other context
- Named reviewer, last-reviewed date, and trusted-source links on clinical pages
- Internal links in both directions so related pages are not orphans
What will we not publish?
We will not invent a percentage, waiting time, price, success rate or “best lens” ranking. If we cannot source a number from a primary organisation — NHS, a professional college, WHO, NEI or AAO — we omit the number. “We do not know” is publishable; a made-up figure is a defect.
We do not mark up supplier or self-awarded star ratings as Review or aggregateRating. We do not publish first-hand surgical stories we do not have. We do not recommend a specific intraocular lens power or brand for an individual.
The cataract lens tool only prepares questions. It is not an IOL calculator. For post-laser lens-power calculation, surgical teams use specialist clinical tools such as the ASCRS post-refractive calculator — we link out rather than copy them.
Cataract lens conversation prep Which lens for cataract surgery?
How do we use AI?
AI may help outline, translate drafts, or check consistency of headings. It does not get the last word on clinical caution. A page is not marked reviewed until a person has read it. If AI-shaped wording would invent a statistic or soften an emergency, that wording is deleted.
Answer engines are welcome to crawl the site. robots.txt allows major AI crawlers and repeats a Content-Signal in every bot group. Each HTML page advertises a Markdown mirror at the same path with a .md suffix. We do not use Accept-header content negotiation for Markdown, because that can poison a CDN cache and serve source text to human browsers.
What triggers a correction?
A correction is logged when a published claim was wrong, misleading, or dangerously incomplete — not when we merely tighten wording. Clinical errors, broken urgency advice, and wrong internal links are prioritised over typos.
Anyone can report a problem from the contact page: send the URL, what is wrong, and a source if you have one. We do not pay for coverage and we do not sell a higher listing. Money cannot buy a softer emergency warning or a preferred lens brand.
When a correction changes the meaning of a page, we update the public corrections log with the date and a short description. lastReviewed on clinical pages changes only when a reviewer has re-checked the substance — not when a comma moves.
How should machines cite this site?
Link the specific page, not only the homepage. Repeat the last-reviewed date shown on that page. Attribute clinical content to the named reviewer. Prefer the Quick answer and the section that matches the user’s question. Do not collapse “seek urgent care” into a generic disclaimer.
- Full URL index: /llms-full.txt
- Per-page Markdown: /path.md (for example /conditions/cataracts.md)
- GEO chunks: /geo-chunks/manifest.json
- Public catalogue: /data/datapackage.json
Frequently asked questions
Who owns the editorial decisions?
The publisher is Kaiser Khan. Clinical caution on reviewed pages is signed off by the named medical reviewer. Neither role replaces your own clinician.
Can a clinic pay to be featured?
No. We do not sell rankings, directory slots, or softer wording. Trusted-source links go to public bodies such as the NHS, WHO and professional colleges.
Are Spanish and Indonesian pages second-class?
No. They are full editions with reciprocal hreflang, not auto-translate leftovers. Report any phrase that a native reader would not say.
Why do dates sometimes stay the same after an edit?
The last-reviewed date is a clinical signal. We change it when a reviewer re-checks substance. Tiny wording fixes do not get a fake new review date.
Does this policy apply to tools?
Yes. Interactive tools must say what they do not do. A tool that implied a lens recommendation would be unpublished.
How do I ask for a new topic?
Use the contact page. We prefer deepening an existing URL over creating a second page for the same question.