Promptly contact your ophthalmologist.
All of us know the feeling of eye fatigue, which is accompanied by double vision, blurred vision, dryness, burning, foreign body sensation in the eyes, a dilation of blood vessels of the conjunctiva, eye pain, head and neck irritability.
Similar symptoms occur with prolonged TV viewing and prolonged reading of books, length of time driving a car, especially in twilight and at night.
However, most often we face the necessity of long and hard work on the computer. Forced position of the body combined with lack of agility, a focus on closely spaced small objects, decrease in frequency of the ciliary movements, the flickering screen, poor lighting lead to the emergence of the so-called “computer vision syndrome”, which manifests all the above symptoms in varying degrees of severity.
A major role in the appearance of tired eyes playing available blurred vision. Avoiding the use of glasses for distance or contact lenses for myopia, glasses for near vision in presbyopia leads to the tension of the accommodative muscle, the main function of which is to project the image onto the retina. Over time, the functional reserves of the muscle are depleted, and when trying to examine far located objects or read small text without glasses occur blurred vision, eye fatigue and headache.
In order to prevent “computer vision syndrome”, it is sufficient to follow a few simple rules.
10 ways to fight eye fatigue
1. Exercise. Physical activity, playing such sports that require you to switch the view from close to far and eliminated injuries to the head (tennis, badminton), and provide strengthening of the muscles of the body, including the eye.
2. Eat in a balanced way. Include in your diet more foods containing protein, calcium (fish, cheese, eggs, etc.), vitamins and antioxidant nutrients (fresh fruits and vegetables).
3. Properly organize your workplace. It should be well lit, avoiding the extremes of light. Distance from eye to screen should not be less than half a meter. For the computer Desk should be a comfortable chair with a high back.
4. Follow the regime of work at the computer. Try every hour to do 10-minute breaks to rest the eyes. At this time, look out the window at the horizon, then shift your gaze to any closely situated object. This simple exercise will relax the accommodative muscle. Be sure to get up and walk during the holidays, make a simple physical exercise, stretch the neck. Activation of the blood supply in the cervical spine leads to blood filling of the vessels of the ciliary muscle, and hence to improve its performance.
5. Use “computer” glasses. Their glass is covered with a filter which does not absorb most of the rays blue-violet spectrum emitted by the computer, and creates more contrast. This reduces the load on the accommodative muscle.
6. Use glasses for vision correction. If visual acuity is reduced due to presbyopia, you need three pairs of glasses for near vision, for computer and for distance. Easier to use progressive glasses, the lenses which have smooth transition zones. While eye fatigue practically does not occur. If you have myopia, glasses for working at the computer should be at 1.0 to 1.5 diopter weaker glasses for distance. To choose the right glasses can only by a qualified ophthalmologist after a comprehensive eye exam.
7. Do the exercises for the eyes. As soon as you feel tired, do some exercises to ensure that the vision became clearer. Move eyeballs up and down, right and left, clockwise and counter-clockwise on a diagonal. Draw an imaginary figure 8 horizontally and vertically. These exercises can be done both with open and with closed eyes. Within 2 minutes, often blinked the eyes, strongly zazhmurte for a few seconds and then open your eyes wide.
8. Do lotions. Brew a teaspoon of regular black tea in 200 ml of hot water and let it brew. As soon as the temperature drops to the tea room, soak two cotton pad and apply for 15-20 minutes to the eyes. You can use the decoction of chamomile. A tablespoon of chopped flowers pour a glass of water and bring to a boil, then allow to steep and cool for several hours. After you apply the compresses to the eyes for 20 minutes 2 times a day. With the same purpose, use birch leaves or flowers of Linden.
9. Bury drops. Currently in the pharmaceutical market there is a huge choice of drops for the eyes, relieve fatigue and relieve dryness. However, remember that before applying any medicines you need to visit an ophthalmologist, who’ll recommend those medicines that are right for you. You need to consider the fact that most eye drops contain preservatives which may cause allergic reactions. Medicines that protect eyes from fatigue, represented by drops or gels. Some you can dig to the lens and before applying other lenses must be removed. The composition of some preparations contain hyaluronic acid, which promotes healing of microtrauma of the cornea. Drops produced, which in addition to moisturizing action, produce a vasoconstrictive effect, that is, take off the redness of the eyeball.
10. Promptly contact your ophthalmologist. Of course, any treatment should be undertaken only after a full examination and consultation. Regular checkups can prevent eye disease or to detect changes in the organ of vision at an early stage.
