Back from vacation, mainly due to longer hours to enjoy the outdoors, sporting activities, contact with animals and plants often develop eye infections and allergies, both eyelids, and on the surface eye (cornea and conjunctiva).
Also, due to the surrounding brightness during the summer, we can account for small deficits visual appearance of so-called floaters and light flashes. Do not forget to consult your Ophthalmologist any eye discomfort caused in the summer. Only trying these signs of an early, avoid the complications that can arise from the process becomes chronic.
Eye protection before the start of the school year must make a visual examination in children and youth. This allows us to detect defects or variations of refraction (myopia, astigmatism and farsightedness) and improve the performance of our children in their studies. Recent studies show that one of the causes of school failure are treated no visual deficits.
During the fall and winter, playing sports such as swimming in indoor pools, where the use of goggles for swimming, recommended in any season is essential. Again we must remember some advice for the use of these glasses: Removing proceed with care, both to avoid the vacuum effect that produces many problems, so that if we neglect out of hand we did not result in damage to rebound eyes.
Another characteristic of this sport is ski season. As practiced in the mountains, where the level of ultraviolet and infrared radiation is much larger than usual support can be produced by prolonged exposure, severe corneal burns also promote accumulation of ultraviolet radiation by developing early cataracts, injuries Retinal and conjunctival. For all these reasons, it is essential to the use of proven quality goggles to practice this sport.
Protection glasses for the mountains The arrival of bad weather, with fog, mist, rain and loss of visual contrast on the roads, caused by adverse weather conditions, requires that drivers, especially professionals, truckers, taxi drivers etc.. pass a review to ensure their maximum visual acuity both day and night for their safety and that of other road users.
visual acuity in driving both at work and at home would be to look if we get the visual comfort to read, because we must not forget that an insufficient lighting is so damaging to the eyes as excessive. To watch television or working on computers whose screens have high brightness and low contrast should smooth the luminance level of the environment and avoid stress to the eyes, eliminating reflections or glare from lights and windows on the screen.
The sight distance is optimal for close work, the computer is 45-55cm, having placed the screen at an angle of 10-20 ° to the horizontal. The walls of the places of study or work should be mapped and light-colored, light fixtures must have light diffusers and lighting should be between 150-300 Lux.
good light conditions dryness in the atmosphere has become the norm in homes and offices, produced in the colder months often abused by heating, and that makes concentration on visual tasks as reading, sewing, computer work, etc., which tend to blink less rhythm than usual, is one the lack of moisturizing eye to the dryness, which prevent us from seeing a natural and clear. To avoid such inconvenience it is advisable to maintain the environment with a humidity between 40-70%, and use moisturizing eye drops or artificial tears.
Following these simple tips, we will improve our eye health, preserving the best way our most precious sense.
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