DO’S AND DON’T FOR EYE CARE

 Your eyes are vital to your overall health. People rely on their eyes to see and comprehend their surroundings. However, because some eye diseases can result in vision loss, it is critical to detect and treat eye diseases as soon as possible. If your health care provider recommends it, or if you notice any new vision problems, you should have your eyes checked. It's just as important to keep your eyes healthy as it is to keep your body healthy. However, there are things you can do to help keep your eyes healthy if you want to do more to improve your vision.

DO’S FOR YOUR EYES:

• Consume a healthy, well-balanced diet: Rich in fruits and vegetables, particularly deep yellow and green leafy vegetables. Carrots and omega-3 fatty acid-rich fish are good for your vision. Make sure your diet contains foods high in vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E, copper, and zinc.

• Maintain a healthy weight: Obesity or being overweight increases the risk of developing diabetic retinopathy or glaucoma.

• Exercise regularly: Exercise can help to prevent or control diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. These illnesses can affect your vision and cause problems with your eyes. Because eyes have muscles, they could benefit from some eye exercises to stay healthy. Warm your palms for five seconds and then close your eyes. Repeat the process three times.

• Always wear sunglass when going out: Sun exposure can harm your eyes and increase your risk of cataracts and macular degeneration as you age.

• Wear protective eyewear: Eye protection is required when participating in certain sports, working in jobs such as factory work and construction, and performing home repairs or projects to avoid eye injuries.

• If you wear contacts, take the following precautions to avoid eye infections: Hands should be thoroughly washed before inserting or removing contact lenses. Follow the cleaning instructions carefully and replace them as needed.

• Rest for your eyes: It is beneficial to close your eyes for a few minutes. When you spend a lot of time in front of a computer, you may forget to blink, causing your eyes to become tired. Try the 20-20-20 rule to reduce eye strain: Every 20 minutes, look 20 feet in front of you for 20 seconds.

• Get enough sleep: It's not enough to close your eyes for a few minutes. Your body requires restful sleep regularly. Your eyes become reuvenated when your body receives enough rest.

DON’TS FOR YOUR EYES:

• Do not expose your eyes to glares: Avoid looking directly at the sun or other bright objects such as headlights, bright lights, or laser pointers. Dim the lights even if you're watching TV or staring at a computer screen to avoid straining your eyes.

• Never work in poor light: It's because reading or doing any other activity in dim light can be taxing on the eyes. This can lead to headaches, eye pain, and other problems.

• Avoid smoking: Smoking raises the risk of age-related eye diseases like macular degeneration and cataracts, as well as causing optic nerve damage. Smoking, both active and passive, is harmful to your eyes.

• Don’t sleep in your contact lenses: This increases your chances of getting an eye infection and harms your vision. Also, don't lend your lenses to others. Also, when cleaning your contact lenses, use contact lens solution rather than water or saliva.

• Do wear swim goggles: Even if the water appears to be clean, there's a good chance it's not. Swimming pools, lakes, and oceans have water that is far from sterile and can cause eye infections or irritations.

• Don’t swim with contacts: Leaving your contacts in while swimming is not recommended because they can fall out or dry out in the salty seawater. Bacteria can grow on your contacts if you swim in a lake with bacteria.

• Don’t rub your eyes: If something gets into your eye, don't rub it. Getting sand in your eye at the beach can make you scratch your cornea, and rubbing your eye can aggravate the problem. When you're out in the woods, stay away from poison ivy, sumac, and oak. If you rub your eyes, the plant oils can get into your eyes and cause severe irritation. Rather than rubbing, wash your hands and thoroughly rinse your eyes with fresh water.