7 ways to take better care of your eyes

Eyes are very important sense organ. Eyes allow us to enjoy seeing the beautiful world. Are you taking care of your eyes? Must consider Try it.

We are putting a lot of stress on the eyes in our hectic daily life. Changing lifestyle, unbalanced diet, lack of rest are affecting eye health. Apart from this, the side effects of using devices like computers, smartphones, laptops, tablets on a large scale are also affecting the eyes.

For example, in ‘Computer Vision Syndrome’, the symptoms of eye dryness, eye strain and eye pain, red eyes, headache, and increase in number of glasses are felt.

Little is known about cataracts. Cataracts are found in the elderly, diabetics, smokers and alcohol drinkers. There is a need to raise awareness about the increased incidence of cataracts due to new lifestyles and the onset of cataracts at a younger age.

Due to the graying of the natural lens of the eye, people with cataracts experience blurred or gray vision, need to change the number of glasses frequently, pale color, and have trouble at night.

Take care of your eyes like this…

1.A balanced diet is very important for eye health. Include vitamin A, C and lutein, zeaxanthin, anti-oxidant foods like carrots, beets, papaya, citrus fruits, amla, green leafy vegetables, almonds, walnuts in your diet.

2. At least eight hours of restful sleep and rest is essential for overall eye health.

3. It is important to take care of your eyes in your daily activities and work at your place of business and to protect your eyes if there is a possibility of injury.

4. In unavoidable situations like ‘work from home’ and ‘online learning’ screen time should be properly planned. Screen use for entertainment should be strictly avoided. 20-20 20 formula should be followed. When using the screen continuously for long periods of time, look at a distance of about 20 meters for at least 20 seconds after every 20 minutes to relax the eye muscles.

5. Persons of all ages should check the number of eyes and glasses time to time by an Ophthalmologist.

This will lead to timely diagnosis of eye disorders and cataracts. If there is any problem related to the eyes, it should be properly examined by an ophthalmologist and treated according to their advice. Avoid giving medicines or drops without their advice.

6. Stay away from alcohol, cigarettes, tobacco and other addictions.

7. If there are diseases like diabetes, blood pressure, these should be controlled by regular medication.

A special thing to mention about cataract is that it is easy to get rid of cataract if diagnosed on time. Cataract surgery is the only treatment. But, with modern technology, sophisticated machines, lasers, easy surgical methods, lenses are available for surgery. Cataract surgery performed with the help of femtosecond laser using phacoemulsification technique, which is performed in just 20-30 minutes, without injection of eye drops only, is a bladeless method and by this artificial lens based on the latest technology, the patient can get clear vision without glasses.