Eye care tips for the holidays

Posted on August 24, 2013 by john in Health care

Around the holidays, mainly due to more hours enjoyed outdoor sports 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 ambient light in the summer, we can realize small visual deficit, calls onset floaters and flashes of light. Do not forget to consult our Ophthalmologist before any eye discomfort caused in the summer. Just trying these signs of an early, avoid the complications that can arise chronified processes.

Eye protection before the start of the school year must make a visual examination for children and youth. In this way we can detect defects or variations of refraction (myopia, astigmatism and hyperopia) and improve the performance of our children in their studies. Recent studies show that one of the causes of school failure are untreated visual deficits.

During the fall and winter, playing sports like swimming in indoor pools where swimming goggles, recommended in all seasons is essential. Again remember any advice for the use of these glasses: proceed with care to remove them, both to prevent the suction effect that produces many problems, so that if we accidentally get out of hand we produce damage rebound eyes.

Another sport is typical of this time skiing. When practiced in mountains, where the level of ultraviolet and infrared radiation is much higher than usually endure, can be produced by prolonged exposure, serious corneal burns and would enhance accumulation of ultraviolet radiation by developing early cataracts, injuries retinal and conjunctival. For all these reasons, it is essential to use proven quality goggles to practice this sport.