How to Maintain Good Eye Sight

If you maintain good eyesight, you may not need these.

Your eyes, simply put, they help you see. It would be a totally dark world without your eyesight. However, there is a lot we can do to preserve our eyesight. Reading this article will teach you how to maintain good eyesight.

Instructions

1. Protect your eyes from the sun. Continuous exposure to the sun's UV rays can severely damage your eyes over time. The UV rays from the sun increases the pigmentation in the eyes resulting in brown spots appearing in the eyes. Sometimes, exposure to the sun's rays can cause eye diseases such as macular degeneration. In order to prevent harmful UV rays, if you plan to be in the sun for extended periods of time, you need to wear protective eye wear that is designed to protect your eyes from the sun's harmful UV rays.

2. Practice disease prevention. Diabetes is among the few diseases that can cause blindness if left untreated, mistreated or undiagnosed. One of the best ways to prevent disease related blindness is to prevent or control your disease. For example, if you have diabetes it is highly recommended that you eat a healthy diet, check your blood sugar often and give yourself or have someone else give you an insulin shot if your blood sugar is above 150. If you have questions about how to better control your diabetes including diets for diabetics, ask your doctor or house nurse for assistance.

3. Add vitamin A to your diet. This concept is usually taught during your younger years. Vitamin A has many uses including the maintenance of eye health. Vitamin A is required for the production of rhodopsin which is an eye pigment highly sensitive to light that is used to see in poor lighting conditions. If you would like know what to eat to get your healthy portion of vitamin A, fear not, you can go to your local grocery store and pick up carrots, apricots, broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables.

4. Visit your eye doctor routinely. Visiting your eye doctor can keep you up to date on your eye health. You should visit your eye doctor for an eye exam once every one to two years (maybe less if you wear eye glasses or contacts) to help you maintain good eyesight. You are advised to see your eye doctor in between visits if you experience eye infections or symptoms of disease like loss of eye vision, blurred vision, eye pain, redness and itching around the eye or eyelid because prolonged eye infections or diseases can result in permanent eye damage or blindness.

Tips & Warnings

• Protect your eyesight. Without your eyes, you can see and when most eye damage is done it is irreversible.

Resources

• Medicine Net website