Eye Care Tips In Summer

As you slather on sunscreen to defend your skin this summer, don’t forget sunglasses to protect your eyes. The same harmful rays that damage skin can also enlarge your risk of developing eye problems. SUMMER is a great time to plan a vacation and particular outdoor activities. Before you begin preparation how you and the family will spend the sunny days ahead, here is a few information that will help you safeguard your eyes and maintain healthy sight not just this summer but for a lifetime.

Eye Care Tips:- 

• Restful sleep for six to eight hours helps rejuvenate your eyes in a normal way.

• Wear dark glasses if you require being out in the sun.

• When selecting dark glasses, create sure they are 100 per cent UV protected.

• When sitting in an AC room, create sure the blast is not directed straight into your eyes this leads to drying and sensitivity of the eyes.

• You must also keep your body while protecting your eyes always use a sun block with at least SPF 15.

• Make sure that you wear sunglasses while driving also since the sun rays can penetrate even through the windows of the car. Wearing substandard sunglasses will make the pupils dilate, allowing extra harmful UV rays to enter the eye and cause damage.

• While driving motorcycle, forever wear protective eyeglasses. If you wear a helmet, decide one which allows you to see and also shields your eyes.

Last but not the least do not forget to supplement your diet through green vegetables, carrots, nuts, red and yellow fruits. These are natural basis of vitamin A and caretenoids, which are any day better then taking multivitamin pills.

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Eye Exercises Might Boost Fine Depth Perception

A new study says a push-pull training method is a good way to correct a condition called sensory eye dominance, in which an imbalance between the vision strength of the eyes impairs fine depth perception. This method which involves making the weaker eye work while the stronger eye is suppressed could be especially important for people who depend on fine depth perception for their work, such as dentists, surgeons, machinists and athletes. It's also likely that the method can be adapted for treating children with amblyopia (also known as lazy eye), which affects 2 to 3 percent of children in the United States, said the authors of the study published in the Oct. 14 online edition of the journal Current Biology.

"After a 10-day training period, we found our participants' sensory eye dominance is significantly reduced as the two eyes become more balanced. As a consequence, their depth perception also improves significantly," Teng Leng Ooi, of Pennsylvania College of Optometry at Salus University, said in a news release from the journal's publisher. It's not clear how the push-pull training method works to readjust the balance between the eyes, the study authors noted. "Possibly, by causing the strong eye to be suppressed at all times during the training, we reduce the inhibitory hold of the strong eye on the weak eye," Ooi said. Further studies are needed to determine exactly how this eye training technique improves depth perception, the study authors suggested.

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Kids Seem More Likely to Reject Those Whose Eyes Cross

Children with a condition called strabismus, in which their eyes aren't straight or don't line up with each other, may be less likely to be invited to birthday parties than other children, researchers have found.Swiss researchers digitally altered photographs of six children from six identical twin pairs to create inward and outward types of strabismus. They asked 118 children, aged 3 to 12 years, photos are unaltered pictures of the children with aligned eyes and select whom they would invite to their birthday party.

Children under 6 years of age didn't have any preference between the photos of the kids with strabismus or normally aligned eyes. But children 6 and older were much less likely to select the photos of the children with strabismus, Dr. Daniel Mojon, of the department of strabismology and neuro-ophthalmology at Kantonsspital in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and colleagues found. There were 48 children aged 6 to 8 in the study, and among that group 18 did not select any child with a strabismus, 17 selected this type of child once, 11 did so twice and two did so three times, according to the report published online Aug. 18 in the British Journal of Ophthalmology.

The researchers found that among the 31 children in the 4- to 6-year age group, only one did not select a child with strabismus, 21 selected a child with strabismus once or twice, and nine selected a child with strabismus three or four times. "Our results show that schoolchildren with strabismus seem less likely to be accepted by their peers, so corrective surgery for strabismus should be performed before the age of 6 years, when negative social implications may arise," Mojon and colleagues concluded.

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