Top 25 Tips For Eyecare

Top 25 Tips For Eyecare

1.  Feed your eyes good food. Vitamins A, C, D, and E are especially important for both adults and children who want good eyesight. Eat lots of green, red, and yellow vegetables. Good fats, such as fish oil, are necessary, too.

2.  Don't make your eyes work too hard! Wear the correct contacts lenses and glasses. Keep your prescriptions up to date.

3.  Protect your eyes from injury. Wear top quality, shatterproof glasses and sunglasses.Wear safety glasses for hazardous work and sports, and always follow work safety rules.

4.  Keep your eyes clean! Bacteria can easily cause painful and damaging infections in your eyes. Be very careful putting on and removing makeup, inserting contacts, and keep tissues used for sneezing away from your eyes.

5.  Keep your blood pressure normal. Have it checked regularly. Use natural means to lower it when possible, drugs when necessary.

6.  Don't smoke. If you are around smokers, you are smoking.

7.  Give your eyes a break! Look away from close work like sewing and computer screens frequently. Blink often when doing close work to keep your eyes moist.

8.  Do “eye yoga.” Blink slowly, look gently as far as you can left, right, up, down, and at your nose.

9.  Wear sunglasses during high ultraviolet light times of the day; mornings and afternoons.

10. Make sure you have your half-hour eye checkup every year at your optometrist. Children should be checked before school starts for near- and farsightedness, astigmatism, Amblyopia (lazy eye) and general eye health. Adults should be checked for near and farsightedness, glaucoma, cataracts, and other issues with aging eyes.

11. You only have one pair of eyes. Once lost, your eyesight may never be replaced.

12. Unlike your teeth, your eyes do not usually hurt when there is something wrong.

13. The eye examination can pick up early signs of potentially blinding eye conditions, such as glaucoma.

14. The earlier a problem is detected the greater the chance of successful treatment. This is particularly true for young children and the elderly.

15. The eye examination can also detect a number of other underlying health problems, such as high blood pressure or diabetes.

16. An examination checks whether your eyesight needs correcting with spectacles and determines the best form of correction for your vision.

17. Good vision means working and playing better and safer in fact it means a better quality of life.

18. For young people, good eyesight is vital for learning. An eye examination will detect any problems in sight which may be affecting school performance.

19. Failing eyesight is often taken for granted as people get older. However, by having an eye examination and remedying problems in eyesight, older people can improve their quality of life significantly.

20. Poor eyesight is dangerous. Make sure that you meet the legal requirement for driving. 

21.  Visit an optometrist regularly. Optometrists are professionally trained not only to test sight and prescribe glasses and contact lenses; they can also spot eye problems and treat infections.

22.  Be "eye aware" - make sure to check each of your eyes one at a time, and if you notice any changes, consult your optometrist.

23.  Parents, keep an eye on your children don't forget, they don't know what "normal" vision is, so watch out for signs that there may be problems. These include instances where children's eyes appear not to work together, if they rub their eyes often or if they seem to shut one eye to see more clearly.

24.  Contact lens wearers - never wear anyone else's lenses, wash them in tap water or sleep in them (unless your optometrist says you can) .

25.  Buy good quality, dark sunglasses - Sunlight can damage the retina and the lens of the eye, and we risk causing long-term damage to our eyesight. Good sunglasses don't need to be expensive: you can purchase perfectly adequate protective sunglasses from high street stores .