Contents:
- Medical Video: Eye Health & Optometry : How to Improve Your Vision
- Various tips are used to sharpen eye vision
- 1. Do eye exercises
- 2. Wear sunglasses when you move outdoors
- 3. Get enough sleep
- 4. Avoid staring at computer screens and gadgets for too long
- Guidelines for maintaining eye health every day
Medical Video: Eye Health & Optometry : How to Improve Your Vision
Daily habits such as staring at computer screens and gadgets, to the hobby of reading in the dark can make eyes tired. If left unchecked, all these habits over time can reduce the sharpness of your eyesight. Not that it might not be blurry eyes also help reduce your daily productivity. Calm down first. The following five simple tricks you can do every day to sharpen your vision and maintain the health of your eyes.
Various tips are used to sharpen eye vision
There are various easy ways that you can practice from now on to maintain eye health and sharpen vision, namely:
1. Do eye exercises
Eye exercises can be done to help strengthen the eye muscles. You can do it in the morning, before going to bed, or when your eyes feel tired.
While sitting relaxed, close your eyes and move your eyes up as far as you can. Hold for a few moments, then lower the "view" down. Repeat several times then open your eyes and look around.
After that, close your eyes again. While still closing your eyes, the lyrics to the right then the lyrics to the left. Repeat several times, change direction. Open your eyes and look around. Then, close your eyes again. Now, the direction lyrics are diagonally from top right to bottom left while closing your eyes, then change the upper left to the lower right. Repeat several times. Open your eyes.
Finally, close your eyes tightly then blink a few times.
2. Wear sunglasses when you move outdoors
Glasses that are equipped with anti UV lenses can help protect your eyes. Excessive exposure to UV radiation increases the risk of cataracts and macular degeneration. Therefore, choose glasses that can block UVA and UVB rays up to 99 percent.
Make sure the lens can protect your eyes as a whole by choosing a lens that covers your eyes from the front and sides. Good quality sunglasses can reduce glare while driving so it doesn't make your eyes hurt.
If you use contact lenses, also choose a lens equipped with UV protection. Or, you can use sunglasses to get additional protection.
3. Get enough sleep
Having enough sleep and quality is very important to maintain eye health which will have an effect on improving vision. Sleep allows your eyes to rest completely. After a day of being used for activities in front of computer screens and gadgets, the eyes need time to improve and recover. When you lack sleep, your eyes don't have enough time to rest. This condition can contribute to weakening your vision slowly.
4. Avoid staring at computer screens and gadgets for too long
Staring at a computer screen and gadget for too long can cause tired, dry and tense eyes. In addition to experiencing eye problems, you can also be exposed to several other disorders such as:
- Blurred vision
- Difficulty focusing attention from a distance
- Headache
- Neck, back and shoulder pain.
Guidelines for maintaining eye health every day
For that, you need to do a number of ways below to maintain the health of your eyesight every day.
- Make sure your glasses and contact lenses are equipped with anti-radiation lenses so they can provide better protection when you have to work using a computer and gadget for a long time.
- Keep computer screens and gadgets in line with your eyes.
- Avoid exposure to excessive light from windows and lights when you are using a computer and gadget.
- Use a chair that is comfortable and not too high so that your feet can touch the floor, not hanging.
- If your eyes feel dry, try flashing more.
- Rest your eyes every 20 minutes. Try to take a short walk to avoid severe eye fatigue. If you are a worker who spends time at the computer, try to take a walk every 2 hours for 15 minutes.
Begin to commit yourself to doing so from now on to sharpen your eyes every day.
