Dry eyes don't mess with the medicine

Southern southern medical university hospital eye LiuQiong

Sources: health

        Eye urticant, dry eyes, foreign body sensation, green eyes, eye fatigue, these are the performance of the dry eyes. Due to computers, air conditioning and the wide use of contact lenses, make the incidence of dry eyes rise sharply. However, if the eyes appear afore-mentioned symptoms, don't literally use eyedrops, because of improper use eyedrop not only can not cure, it will aggravate symptoms.

        Dry eyes and say Angle conjunctival xerosis, it is to point to any causes of tear quality and quantity anomaly or dynamic anomaly, leading to decline LeiMo stability, and accompanied by eye discomfort, cause the ocular surface disease characterized by a variety of disease body. Dry eyes according to cause points tear formation deficiency type and evaporation over strong type two types. The former is due to the lachrymal gland disease or hypofunction in dry eye, The latter is mainly caused by meibomian dysfunction, common in old people and oily skin.

        Cause dry eyes for many reasons, such as the long-term use of computers, long time driving and fine work, smoking, air dirty, long-term in air conditioning and heating environment, long-term wear contact lenses (beautiful pupil), the long-term use of antibiotic eyedrop etc. Because the symptoms of dry eyes usually not serious, so people often don't mind. But the study showed that long-term dry eyes will bring unrecoverable damage, extreme cases and may even cause blindness, so often appear eye urticant, dry eyes, foreign body sensation, green eyes, eye fatigue symptoms should be timely seek medical advice.

        For dry eyes, prevention is the key. Long time using computer should be the blink of an eye, because wink is a kind of protective nerve reflex action, tear layer can make tears evenly coated in the corneal and conjunctival surface, to keep the wetting and not dry. The average person for five (5) seconds blink one eye, every minute blink about 20 times; Try to let an eye and computer screen to maintain 60 cm distance, and make the line of sight to keep down about 30 degrees; Don't in the dark the computer, because black and white contrast to the eyes have damage.

        In addition, hot towel apply eye 10 minutes can improve eye symptoms. Hot compress eye can promote blood circulation, the meibomian gland function recovery have certain help, due to the meibomian gland dysfunction leads to dry eye. In addition, yawning can effectively wet eye.