Contents:
- Medical Video: 10 Important Things Your Child Should Learn by Age 10
- The most common myth about eye health
- 1. Want healthy eyes? Eat lots of carrots
- 2. Watching TV too close can damage the eyes
- 3. Reading in a dark place can damage the eyes
- 4. Glasses or soft lens can make minus / plus / cylinder increase
- 5. The minus eye cannot be cured
- 6. Seeing green scenery can make your eyes healthy
- 7. Artificial sweeteners will make your eyes more sensitive to light
- 8. Using a light sleeper can damage the eyes
- 9. Go to an ophthalmologist only if there are complaints / problems in the eye
Medical Video: 10 Important Things Your Child Should Learn by Age 10
The eye is one of the most important senses in human life. For this reason, eye health is something that needs to be maintained; because with healthy eyes, you can enjoy the natural beauty of God's creation that is so extraordinary, and can increase your confidence.
Unfortunately, we are often given incorrect information about eye health. In fact, not infrequently from close friends and family who have been handed down for generations, information that is only a myth without clear scientific evidence.
For this reason, if you want to have optimal eye health, don't let you not be able to tell which information is right or wrong.
The most common myth about eye health
The following are some of the eye health facts and myths that you may have heard often:
1. Want healthy eyes? Eat lots of carrots
In fact, carrots do have a high vitamin A content, so consuming carrots can really provide vitamin A intake in the body. However, vitamin A can not only be found in carrots, but also in milk, cheese, eggs, and liver. The content of vitamin A in carrots actually plays a role in the metabolism of nerve cells in the retina. So, if there is an assumption that by consuming carrots can reduce the amount of minus / plus / cylinder, of course the opinion is not right. Because, with or without carrots, you can have optimal eye health if you have a good diet.
2. Watching TV too close can damage the eyes
Sitting too close to the TV can not completely damage the eyes, but can cause headaches. Until now there is also no strong evidence that says that watching TV too closely can damage the eyes. What was found in the research was that many children watched TV from a short distance because their eyes were already troubled, so if they sat long distances from the TV, they could not see clearly.
3. Reading in a dark place can damage the eyes
Similarly, sitting too close to the TV, reading in a dark place cannot damage the eyes. Reading in a dark place can only cause the eyes to become tense and get tired quickly because to see in a dark place, the eyes must have maximum accommodation so that they can see objects clearly.
4. Glasses or soft lens can make minus / plus / cylinder increase
In fact, your eyes won't get damaged or get worse just because you use glasses or contact lens. The increase in minus / plus / cylinder is caused by the longer the retina to the lens as you get older, not because you use glasses or soft lens.
5. The minus eye cannot be cured
In fact, 90% of damage to the eye can be prevented and treated. When symptoms appear such as blurred vision or eye pain, you should immediately consult an ophthalmologist. So that, after knowing the state of the eye and its causes, you can immediately treat the condition.
6. Seeing green scenery can make your eyes healthy
Unfortunately, this opinion is not right. Because, seeing the green scenery is only done as a way to relax the eyes, not to treat eye problems such as minus / plus. Like other muscles, eye muscles need relaxation, especially if the eyes are used too often to see the same focus for a long time because it can cause tired eyes. So if your eyes are tired, you can see green scenery to make it more relaxed.
Besides seeing green scenery, you can also change the focus of the eye to the farthest point to relax the eyes.
7. Artificial sweeteners will make your eyes more sensitive to light
In fact, consuming artificial sweeteners is not a major factor that can make your eyes more sensitive to light, but there are other factors such as antibiotics, birth control pills, hypertension drugs, and obesity drugs.
8. Using a light sleeper can damage the eyes
In fact, using a light sleeper cannot damage the eyes. Apparently, using a light sleeper can actually help you learn to focus and develop eye coordination skills when you wake up.
9. Go to an ophthalmologist only if there are complaints / problems in the eye
In fact, everyone is expected to routinely get an eye check; there are or no complaints / problems in the eye. With this, serious eye problems, even if there are no symptoms, can be detected immediately and treated before the problem is serious.
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