To ensure an optimal visual wellness to our eyes it is possible thanks to some slight easy daily gestures which contribute to ensure a health vision.
- Know the visual health state of your family: Talk to your parents about the history on health state of eyes. It is important to know if someone has been diagnosed a visual disease , because many of them are inherited. This will help you to know if you are or not predisposed to insurgence of any disease so to act with prevention to try to stop the insurgence.
- Eat well to protect the sight. Did you know that carrots are good for your eyes ? in general, to make a diet rich in fruits and vegetables, particularly those with green leaves or the dark green, as spinach, cabbage or beet , are important elements that can ensure a healthy quality of life for you and your eyes. Research, furthermore showed that we can meet benefits for our eyes by eating fish rich in omega 3 as salmon and tuna.
- Keep a healthy weight. Be overweight increases the possibility of incurring into diabetes and systemic degenerative conditions that can bring very serious damages to your life, as for example, from diabetic retinopathy to glaucoma, until loss of sight. In case of problems of keeping in shape, over the limits, check the situation with a doctor.
- Stop smoking, or, don’t begin . Smoking is so dangerous for your eyes, as for your whole body. Research has connected smoke to increase of risk in developing macular degeneration connected to age as cataract, damages to optic nerve, each of them can bring to blindness.
- Be ‘cool’ and wear glasses that represent you. Glasses, above all sunglasses, are a fashion accessory, but their most important work is to protect eyes form UV rays of the sun. When buying sunglasses, look for those that stop for 99 to 100% both UV-A and UV-B rays.
- Give your eyes a pause. If many hours are spent in front of computer or concentrating on something, sometimes we forget about focusing and eyes tend to be fatigued. Try the rule 20-20-20 : every 20 minutes, keep away the eyes from computer and look to something in at 20 meters in front of you for 20 seconds. This can help to reduce the eye fatiguing and keep them lubricated and healthy in time.
- Clean your hands and the contact lenses box. To avoid risk of infection , clean well your hands before wearing or removing contact lenses . Be sure of disinfect contact lenses according to instructions and replace them according to cases.
- Demand a safe environment for your eyes on workplace. The employer has to give to his workers a safe workplace. When necessary, wear protective glasses to do your work safely, be used to wear the appropriate kind in every moment and encourage your colleagues to do same
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