What Are Damaging Our Eyes?

by yee on Aug.29, 2009, under fashion

Eyes are compared to the window of heart. Undoubtedly, they are essential to us. However, in daily life, they are easy to suffer from damage. So first and foremost, let's just have a look at some aspects that are most harmful to our eyes.

Light pollution: The greatest source of light pollution is the shiny glass wall in the urban street. The reflection from the glass wall would damage the visual function of people and make people feel uneasy, and much worse, it would sometimes even lead to car accident.

Bad indoor and outdoor environment: Outdoor environment such as sand storm and heavy pollution will cause trachoma and other eye diseases. Indoor environment like either too bright or too dim circumstances, over white wall, and colorful light will make the eyes feel tired.

Excessive work, study and psychological pressure: Using the eyes for a long period and staying up till very late would cause eye fatigue and chronic hurt to the eyes. Therefore, if you are near-sighted, please wear a prescription eye glasses to reduce the possible damage. What's more, the immunity of the whole body may be falling down day by day. If there is a big psychological blow, glaucoma may happen and even the sight will be lost.

Computers and TV sets everywhere: As we all notice, computers have changed most of people' life style and greatly influenced the way of using the eyes as well. We often stare at the computer screen in a near distance, and gradually the times of blinking the eyes are reduced. Besides, the broken tear film covering the surface of the eye balls could not get remedy immediately. What's worse, the eyes are exposed to the radiation. So make sure your eye glasses are radiation-resistant. If no effective measures are carried out, dry eye syndrome, refractive error and the worsening of myopia will become popular. People who are addicted to the TV programs would neglect the time of watching and the distance between the eyes and the TV sets, so that their eye vision will turn bad.

Propaganda without scientific basis and inappropriate cosmetology and medical treatment: It will be harmful to the eyes in a direct way, for instance, to plant bad eyelash, to spread bad mascara or to apply the mascara in an inappropriate way, to wear sunglasses with poor quality, and unskilled double-eye operation.

As we live in this world, we have no choice when we come to the bad environment that we face. However, we still could take some measures to make the situation better. Some experts also offer us three tips for our information.

The best way of caring the eye is to do precautious steps. The key point of prevention is to have eye examination regular even though there is no eye discomfort.
To know is not equal to do, so good life habits should be formed. Do not stay up. Lack of sleep is harmful to the eyes and the whole organism, so to have sufficient sleep would be the best eye care. Do not smoke. Cyanogens in tobacco would deposit in the human body and cause toxic amblyopia.
Save your eyes rest during the busy period. Temporary break: blink the eyes. Short-period break: after every one hour of staring the computer screen, the eyes should be closed for a while or look into the distance.

Hope the above information could help you in some way. And if you have some good suggestions, please don't hesitate to leave your opinions in comment area.

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