Posts Tagged ‘Vision protection’

How to protect your eyesight

January 21st, 2010

Human eyes are very important organs. Eyesight is the ability to interpret information from visible light reaching the eye. It is also known as visual perception. Many people believe that their eyesight is the most important sense that human beings have. By daily protection of eyesight you can reduce the risk of developing eye diseases.

Eating foods that is good for eyesight is the easiest way to protect your eyes. Food that is rich in antioxidant vitamins and minerals supply nutrition for eyesight. For instance, alfalfa, pea sprouts, leeks, lettuce, carrots, tomatoes and other green vegetables rich in carotenoids or vitamin A is good for eyesight, and fruit is also good, especially to eat citrus fruits, grapes, lemons, bananas, apricots. Dried chrysanthemum can be used as scented tea, and has the effect of protecting eyesight too.

Avoiding bad habits, such as smoking or drinking, and developing good habits, such as juicing, and wearing sunglasses when outside, will help you protect your eyesight. People with a fast lifestyle can try to reduce stress, they will also improve the eye health.

Computer is very common today, you may spend much time visiting the web pages or reading office texts. If you have difficulty in reading, harmful to your eyesight, you can hold the “Ctrl” button on your keyboard while scrolling the roller wheel upward.

Finally, having routine eye exams in the hospital every year is a step that can’t be ignored in protecting your eyesight.

A couple of options for eye care vision

October 9th, 2009

Whether your eyesight was born with disorder, or got deteriorated due to improper use of eyes, you may want to find ways to improve your eye care vision. Modern advancement of technology offers a variety of options to get your eye care vision done.

The natural way of eye care vision improvement is eye exercises. Eye exercises have been existed for more than a century, though there is still no precisely scientific evidence showing the effectiveness of this natural therapy for your eye care vision. But this mechanism is easily understandable that any exercises do good to health of the body, so do the eye exercises.

Wearing eyeglasses is the most widely-used method of eye care and vision enhancement. The conception of wearing glasses has been changed from viewing as stigma in the early years to the present fashion statement and a piece of facial aesthetic jewelry. Of course eyeglasses can be only be used to rectify those correctable refractive errors like myopia and hyperopia. For those patients of low vision which arises from old-aged diseases, glasses couldn’t help to much. Low vision glasses can help only a little. While most old low vision patients use hand-held low vision optical magnifier of different strength for different works.

Contact lenses are the new alternate in the recent 50 years for achieving eye care and clearer vision. Contact lenses are popular among those who don’t want to be bothered by the glasses, and want to show the natural beauty of their faces. Some opticians believe that prolonged wear of contact lenses will trigger eye infections which will further complicate the eye care and vision errors.

Lasik surgery s believed to be the most modern technology in the eye care and vision sphere. This surgery corrects your eye care and vision problems permanently, and let you be free from any vision correction gears. Though laser surgery is thought to be safe, there exist some side effects as per reports in the media, and it is reported that some people are not suitable for the surgery due to their personal medical status.

So many options provide us full freedom of eye care vision protection. As one person only has one pair of eyes, any efforts towards the vision protection will be more than worthwhile.